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Did anyone else get to watch this live yesterday? I thought I was going to miss it, but finally spotted where Misha was streaming it live on his youtube channel. So great to see Jensen & Jared there (in their respective Vancouver apartments, going thru their required quarantine before filming). Beards are still there and the flowing hair (loved the bit about them all riding the coattails of Jared's hair). Anyone else wonder if that was FB Beer Jensen was drinking? :P

There's a lot of caps here, but I did start with over 400. ;)



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Hello, all. Posting from my phone tonight in very smoky Vancouver! :D

What an exhausting, long day Wednesday was! Everthing was going wrong, we were way behind on packing and we didn't leave until very late. But we're here and that's what's important.

But because it's so late and I'm beat, there won't be any Just 'Cause post today. I'll try my best to keep up with my regular posts while I'm here, but I make no guarantees.

Btw, thanks for all the lovely comments on yesterday's cap! *hugs* Time for some sleep. Night! :D

Big catch-up from last week, including last weekend's BurCon. Things will probably be a little quiet this week as the production is off for Thanksgiving until Dec. 1st.

Usual spoiler warnings apply, but I don't think there's many of them.

https://storify.com/Valerie613/spn-production-s10-10x12-day-2-and-burcon-weekend

https://storify.com/Valerie613/burcon-2014

https://storify.com/Valerie613/spn-production-s10-10x12-day-3-and-4

https://storify.com/Valerie613/spn-production-s10-10x12-day-5-and-6

https://storify.com/Valerie613/spn-production-s10-10x12-day-7-and-weekend-chatter

Added this in because this was the convention hotel for VanCon from the beginning until this August (2009-2014), but sadly, Creation is moving next year's con to the Convention Center. I will miss this hotel, even though I never stayed there. It's a beautiful building inside and out and I feel the Convention Center will pale in comparison. They did a cool look back at the creation and building of the hotel and I wanted to save the tweets. Unfortunately, the pics don't show up in Twitter, but you can click on the links.

https://storify.com/Valerie613/vancouver-s-sheraton-wall-centre

On Monday the SPN crew reported back to work up in Vancouver and yesterday Jensen flew back into town to begin prepping the S10 episode he's going to direct. If it's like most seasons when he helmed an ep, it'll probably be 10x03 or 10x04. So very happy that Jensen is directing again. :)

Soon, Jared will be flying back to Van as well, filming will begin, and the boys will be back to work on another wonderful season. All will be right in the world again! I always miss them when they aren't "up north", since it's only 160-some miles away from me.

But OMG Jensen, really? You know I love it when you point. Ever since that episode still from 1x03 where you were pointing at something. Ok, maybe it's the hiatus scruff, too. Either way...*iz dead from hotness*





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For the past 4 VanCons mom & I have been staying at the Best Western Downtown Vancouver. It's on Granville & Drake streets and I'd walk the few blocks between it and the convention hotel, the Sheraton Wall Centre. The BW has sort of been our home-away-from-home. We were even able to get the exact same room for 3 of the 4 years. We like the White Spot restaurant on the ground floor and some of the servers there have remembered us from year to year.

This year that will not happen. :(

I kept telling mom we needed to call and reserve a room in April. Last year we got lucky when we booked a room in July. Cutting it way too close for me (again, thanks to mom's reluctance), but we did get a room albeit one floor above our usual room. So this year I again tried to convince mom we needed to call the hotel and get the reservation, but no. "We don't need to reserve a room this soon!" she kept telling me. So we waited and I got her to agree to at least call at the end of May.

We waited too long.
Several days ago I checked for the week we need in August and all the days were available except that Friday - the first day of the convention! Gah!!!!! Too late!

So I had to quickly try and find another hotel, which isn't as easy as you might think because my mom & I are not fancy-smancy hotel type people. So that rules out a lot of the hotels in downtown Vancouver - yet it had to be within walking distance to the con hotel. Luckily enough, there's another, slightly bigger Best Western further north on Granville Street, just a few blocks of our usual hotel. I checked it out and they still had rooms!

So we called this afternoon and booked a room. Phew! I don't know where we would have stayed if I hadn't found that other Best Western.

Here it is, the Best Western Chateau Granville.




It looks nice enough (Oooh, balconies) but I'm just so sad and disappointed (and honestly a little angry at my mom & her darned stubbornness). I love "our hotel": the rooms, the restaurant, the people, the views. Even the lobby smells of roses! *sigh* I'm thankful we have a place to stay, but yeah...not very happy about the new location.

I still need to fix and prep my main photos taken with my big Canon camera, but here are some pics taken with my new point & shoot camera: the Canon Powershot S110. My plan had been to post these each night during the con to give everyone a taste of what was going on, but the schedule was so packed that I didn't have any time. So you're getting them now. It's all good, right?

Please keep in mind that the photos from my other camera will be better than these. Thx. ;)

   

One of the added benefits of being in Vancouver is that you get to hang out with so many of the crew members and a bunch of them were on hand Saturday. The big surprise was meeting one of the writers: Robbie Thompson! I'm sad I didn't get a chance to chat with Kevin Parks this time, but then there's always next year. *g* Russ Hamilton never disappoints in his panel, and it was neat for him to bring up his daughter to read the warning on his much protected notebook of locations. The other trio panel of the weekend of the 2 Marks and James was fun...but it did seem that most of the questions were aimed at Mark Sheppard and his many rolls over the years. Not that that's a bad thing, but it would've been nice to hear from the other guys too.

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I still need to fix and prep my main photos taken with my big Canon camera, but here are some pics taken with my new point & shoot camera: the Canon Powershot S110. My plan had been to post these each night during the con to give everyone a taste of what was going on, but the schedule was so packed that I didn't have any time. So you're getting them now. It's all good, right?

Please keep in mind that the photos from my other camera will be better than these. Thx. ;)

   

I was a little apprehensive about Alex Zahara being in the line-up, but he was quite wonderful. Enjoyed hearing about his many rolls and his extensive knowledge about prosthetic makeup. This year I was happy that karaoke started earlier (though I missed having a concert) which meant I could stick around longer. :) Taking pics was difficult, but I took a couple of videos that turned out great! I'll be posting them later. Boo! To them not playing "Carry On Wayward Son" though. :( That was a great memory for me from 2012's VanCon....of everyone singing that song together.

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I still need to fix and prep my main photos taken with my big Canon camera, but here are some pics taken with my new point & shoot camera: the Canon Powershot S110. My plan had been to post these each night during the con to give everyone a taste of what was going on, but the schedule was so packed that I didn't have any time. So you're getting them now. It's all good, right?

Please keep in mind that the photos from my other camera will be better than these. Thx. ;)

  

The pics at night of the Sheraton Wall Centre were taken after I was done with registration on Thursday night. We also got some cool tree decorations for the stage this year...a VanCon first!

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VanCon is right around the corner (15 days!) and I'm looking forward to not only revisiting the beautiful city and enjoying the guests, but meeting up with fellow fans. Many of you I've been fortunate to hang out with every year, but I'm always eager to meet new friends as well.

I'll be in seat C20 all three days, so feel free to stop by and say Hi! :D



Please fill out my little questionnaire (only 5 questions). Helps me to know who all is attending and where to find you. Thx :)
<b>Username/Name: </b> <b>Row/Seat: </b> <b>How long are you staying? </b> <b>Going around to see SPN's Filming Locations? </b> <b>The best thing about VanCon is? </b>

Thought I'd start something new...a bit more RL stuff from me. I've heard from some that I don't do enough of that. I'm assuming it's still true...

Don't ask me what this is going to be, I'm still working it out in my head. We'll simply see where things take me, alright?
Let's start out with a little "stream of consciousness" to start.


:: I've got the song "Blooming 18" by Ace Of Base stuck in my head at the moment. No idea why. Gah!!!!

:: K is not coming down today. Yay! That means we can do what we want. I could finish the dishes, but not sure I want to bother. Will probably continue scanning old photos with mom.

:: Why is it I want to paint, journal, or be creative late at night when I really can't? *sigh* I did gesso an Art Journal page that I didn't like the outcome of so I can have a do-over. :P

:: Must remember to change the water in my flowers when I get up. Some of them are spent/drooping. Some of the roses have opened up nicely though. :)

:: Am already thinking of saving some of the rose petals for use in my Art Journals, Smashbooks...whatever. :P

:: My arms always get cold in the evenings. Yep, just my arms. The rest of me is just the right temperature. Why don't they make arm warmers like they used to make leg warmers in the 1980s?

A pretty pic of Vancouver via Flickr, since it's on my mind all the time now. VanCon in 2 months! Btw, we can see that purple-topped building on the left from our hotel room each year. It actually cycles through different colors. Pretty!



Ok, enough for this night. Mom keeps asking when I'm going to bed. Nag, nag, nag... :P