Well the moment is finally here. My wife and I booked our flights from Amsterdam to LA for April! We already had our Celebration entry passes and tickets to the CHIVE party (what I’m looking forward to the most!) but we’d been procrastinating about the flights for two months. We just came back from Sydney and Bali so it was difficult committing to another huge trip so quickly.

We’ll spend at least three days at Celebration (maybe four) but we’ll have about two weeks in California, visiting LA, Palm Springs and possibly San Francisco or San Diego. I’ve promised my wife that I’ll make up for her having to come to the convention, so we’ll do some art and architectural based tours (supposedly mid-century design is all the rage in Palm Springs!). We might all love Star Wars but not everyone else does. She thought ANH was “okay” but that the rest of the movies were as boring as batshit, as we say in Australia. Well at least she didn’t like Attack of the Clones, that could have been a relationship breaker. Anyway she’s a trooper and encourages my love of the hobby so I consider myself blessed. She did come to Celebration Europe with me in 2013 so I was stoked on that. And just to repay her for that I might share a photo of her looking nerdy with a lightsaber. It was pretty much the only moment she looked awake at Celebration Europe.

Here she is:

Just jokng! But this lovely cosplay enthusiast was at Celebration Europe.

Here she is. Nerd alert!

Well enough about my wife – who’s coming to Anaheim? Would love to meet as many collectors as possible. I’ll be at the CHIVE party (tickets already sold out!) and Jenni Bennett’s organising some drinks which looks like a lot of fun. Of course I’ll be at all the vintage events. Hope to see you all there!!!! I’m so excited I just pissed my pants!