From: glb3833@sjfc.UUCP (Gidget Bowden)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: SB:  Mini-Conv Report
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:25:17 GMT
Organization: St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY



Hi all!
I supposed it's my turn to tell about my experience to Pittsburgh!  I get
all my posts late, so I haven't seen any others yet, so I'm telling this
basically as I saw it, not necessarily how others did.
I met Jacquie at her house in Buffalo.  It was fairly sunny, so I had a
good feeling.  After going over everything, we headed out.  We did fine
with the directions getting us out of Western New York, and into Pa.  Once
we got in Pittsburgh, that was the problem.  I was the navigator, Jacquie
was the driver.  I guess that means I was the problem.  We turned off the
wrong way, and ended up lost in downtown, during rush hour, for about an
hour, hour and a half.  We kept looking for a place to pull over to call,
but we couldn't find anything!
Eventually we did get to Suzanne's.  We initially met Suzanne, Leila,
Curt, and John.  They had just watched the last episode, so we all sat
around and talked.  As we sat down to dinner, Ilene showed up.  Eventually,
so did Mike, Suzanne's hubby.  We sat around for awhile and talked.  Later
on, we watched some old tapes.  The tapes Diana sent in from New Zealand
were wonderful.  Jean Reese also sent a good tape of the Lilly Light era,
but we didn't get to see Lilly then.  The tape cut off just before we saw
her.  We were very disappointed.  We finally headed to bed about 1 or so.
A little while later we heard the dog bark.  The dog barking is usually
another sign of someone being at the door.  We were straining to hear who
was there, and we realized it was Rick and Renee.
The next morning (Saturday), Suzanne asked if I'd like to join her and
Leila to go to the university and then to look for a videocamera.  Her
biggest mistake was mentioning we were going to the 12 story Kaufmann's.
I was hooked.  Jacquie and I went along, and got to see a lot of the
University of Pittsburgh.  Suzanne showed us a little bit of her building,
and explained some stuff to us about meteorites.  Next was Kaufmann's.  I
was in LOVE!  I'm a big shopper, and I really enjoyed myself.  We got back
later than expected, and Liz (the Big Banana) and her sweetie Joe were
there.  I talked with Liz for awhile, looking at pictures.  We then
practiced reading the skit.  It was great!  Kudos to Vivian, Nancy, and 
Sucheta for their hard work!  I was Lilly.  Everyone was great, we got a
laugh reading it.  Since we didn't get a video camera, we decided to do
a tape of it audio.  Mike and Joe were great with that.  Mike did the
sound effects, and Joe made sure everything would be heard on tape.  It
was a lot of fun!  Liz and Joe had to leave then (boo hoo), and next was
dinner.  Suzanne made a big pot of spaghetti sauce, and cooked up a lot
of pasta to go with it.  During cooking, Renee and I ventured to the store.
We made it okay, but I won't embarass Renee and tell you what she did.
Just ask her thru Rick, but it was very funny!  I hope Suzanne has okay
neighbors!  After the huge dinner, we went down to play Trivial Pursiut.
John did a fabulous job putting everything together.  Since Curt and I had
only watched SB for a few months, we were on the same team as the all
knowing Suzanne.  We ended up winning both rounds, I have no idea how,
since I didn't know half of the characters the questions were about.  After
the game, we watched more SB tapes.  Another late night!
Sunday brought us bagels for brunch.  Yum!  After brunch, we watched more
tapes (of course), and then headed out for a tour of Pittsburgh.  Suzanne
and Mike are wonderful tour guides.  We went up on Mount Washington, and
looked at the city from up there.  It was absolutely beautiful.  After that
we went and looked at the old train station.  Beautiful architecture!  Next
on our stop was saying goodbye to Ilene and Rick and Renee.  Goodbyes are
always sad!  I wish they could've stayed again, but I understood they had
to leave.  We orded out Pizza for dinner, and watched but more SB tapes.
Early to rise on Monday was the call.  Leila, John and Curt, and Jacquie
and I all headed out about 9:00 Monday morning.  The trip back to Western
New York was very peaceful, we didn't get lost at all!  It snowed a bit,
but other than that it was fun.
All in all, I had a great weekend, and really enjoyed meeting everyone!  I
would love to be able to do it again, and I strongly urge anyone who didn't
make it to try to come if we ever do it again.

ta ta for now!

--Gidget

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