Day Five Part Five

This starts with me going down in an elevator. I know, deadly boring. But then it goes into Sunday Night Lunch and the descendants panel! The last two people in the table (after you see Betsy as a bride) are "Carney's" daughter, Louise King and her daughter Caroline. (Stay tuned for more footage of them in the panel!) Then Jennifer Hart - who is a HERO for all she has done to get the HS books back in print- is speaking on the legacy panel. She is followed by Pat Neville-Downes, niece of Vera Neville, who was just as nice and funny as can be. I probably should have voice-overed part of this, but I am getting tired!

Day Five Part Four

I now do to Tacy's House what I recently did to Betsy's House. Bore you to death with it... But there is footage of the coffee pot and the brass bowl! And it isn't like this is just for you - I will want a record of my annoying voice going on and on as I scream by pictures of the crowd that you can barely see. The funniest thing about this is the beginning where Radhika nags me to "pan slower" and it is the first time in any of these videos that the production looks good! Then I tell her to stop nagging me and it is back to motion sickness city once again!

Day Five Part Three

Here is a really long, shaky camera-ed tour of Betsy's house. And then Radhkia and I painfully (more painfully for her, as it turns out) looking for pavers from Maud-L folk! This is a long one, and only for die-hards. But Radhika gets injured, in a funny, Bugs Bunny-like way...

Day Five Part Two

And here is Sunday afternoon on Hill Street with Barb and Radhika!

Day Five (Sunday, If you are keeping track) Part One

And here is a tour of my hotel room. Dull, I know. But brief! And I intended to put it up for those of you who weren't at the convention and were dying for more information. But I was having too much fun!

What Happens in Mankato...

Here is the "Who would you spoon from Deep Valley?" interview. The respondents are:
Cari, Angie, Andrea, Radhika, Kristin, Kristin, Julie, Sallie, Melissa, Jan, Kathy, Mary, Susann, Laurie B-Z, Kathleen W., Katie, Elizabeth, Theresa, Cindy, Susan, Melody, Lani, Deborah, Kaaren (the event coordinator who hasn't read the books, but was persuaded by the debate), Jen D-K, Holly, Louise, Jessica, Deb, Elizabeth, Michelle and ME!

Day Four Part Two

This may not be for family viewing as it takes place at the Perfectly Awful Girls' Night out Saturday at the Red Sky Lounge. There was a debate Tony vs. Joe, Joe won. Then the lead debaters from either team - in this case Michelle and Louise - debated who was the most untrustworthy with the beaux of others, Bonnie or Irma. Then those who outlasted the bar came back to Jen any my room for a game of "Marry, Date or Dump". No wonder it took me three days after the convention to catch up on my sleep!

Day 4 Part 1

Here is the footage I took on the Mankato tour. Including Bob Nixon's initial performance of ALL POLICEMEN HAVE BIG FEET! He does it so much better than I do...

Day Three Part Three

FINALLY we get some actual convention footage. You don't get to see me MC-ing, but there is some Kathy Baxter footage as well as Jen D-K, some unaccountably shakey PAG footage as well. Don't say you weren't warned!

Day Three Part Two

The List Meet and Greet starts this film - lots of names! Then a view of the former site of Ray's Shoes and finally some fun lovin' crowd gals having a pre-convention snort. The convention is about to begin!

Day Three Part One

Here we have my first sight of the Alltel Center rooms, the DVC's (the Deep Valley Committee who planned the convention) celebratory luncheon and Jen's first look at the rooms. Also Kelly and Shelby!

Day Two - The Final Chapter!

For some reason I thought I had 4 parts for Thursday. Anyway - this episode concerns getting the registration packets ready, eating dinner and embarassing ourselves in public at the pool. It begins with the heartwarming first (ish) meeting of Jen Davis Kay and Jan Sasser and ends with the lights of Mankato twinkling in the darkness.

With 100% Less Convention Footage

I will eventually edit and voice over my enthusiastically messy convention films, but since it took me over an hour to just upload them to my computer today, it will be a few days.

Until then, here is something far stupider...

All Policemen Have Big Feet...

I will eventually post the rest of the footage from the convention. But first things first...

Day Two Part the Second

Here is more of Thursday. Yes, I am aware it is Saturday, but I am having too much fun to spend time editing! You will be painfully aware of this as you view. But have no fear - Thursday night's footage will be explained in voice over because - ahem - to run the actual soundtrack would get many people in trouble!

It is now Saturday morning. Yesterday was a day of meeting Maud Folk, being nervous and seeing the best presentation of my life by Kathy Baxter.

And now step into the way-back machine for a little movie I like to call "Barb and Jen Go Halfway Up the Big Hill - and DIE!"

Day Two - Part the first

I was going to edit this to make it neater, but it was so much fun - I didn't want to cut anything! There will be one or two more films from today that I just might have to edit to protect some peoples' reputations!

First Day in Minnesota!

Next Stop Land of 10,000 Lakes!

A little more ramp-up!

First Try at Vlogging!

Webcam!

We have one of those, and depending on how drunk one or both of us are, we will be vlogging from the convention. Excited? Us too!
We will have to come up with exotic convention names. I need to come up with some sort of combination of Miss Sparrow and Mrs. Poppy.