From: greenlaw@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Leila Thomas)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: SB:  Leila's lengthy con report
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:08:27 GMT
Reply-To: greenlaw@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Leila Thomas)
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Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Annapolis, MD

THURSDAY

I arrived on Thursday and got acquainted with Suzanne and Mike.  Suzanne
and I had dinner at a local Chinese restaurant.

FRIDAY

Suzanne and I went to her gym and we got our workouts for the day.  We then
went shopping for various door prizes (a big letter "C", quotes from
Shakespeare, and general things relating to soaps).  We ended up with a mug
with a basset hound on it and a small poster that said "I Love My Soaps,"
and we made a letter "C" from red construction paper and everyone signed
it.  The prizes that we found plus the ones that Tammy Riddle sent (2
things of soap (because it is a soap), a stapler (remember the tea bag),
and ?????????

When Suzanne and I finally arrived back at her house, she put me to work
cutting vegetables, opening LOTS of cans for spaghetti sauce and various
other household duties.

We then took a break and watched the last episode of SB until Curt and John
arrived 15 minutes before the end of the final episode.  A little later
Gidget and Jacquie arrive and about 2:00 in the morning Rick and Renee
arrived.

SATURDAY

Morning:

Suzanne, Jacquie, Gidget and I went to Suzanne's place of work to download
and copy the skit (about 2 hours) and then we went to Kaufmann's (a 12
story Dept store) to see if we could rent a camcorder for the skit (we
couldn't) and eat lunch.

Afternoon:

By the time we got back everyone was there including Liz and her boyfriend
Joe
(I think that was his name).  We then proceeded to do a practice run on
the skit.  At this point I have to say that you really should get a copy
of the skit.  It was very funny and we all had a great time practicing.
Around 4:00 we really did the skit and if I do say so myself we did a
really good job.  We had Ilene do the opening theme song from SB on the
organ, while Mike did the sound effects (i.e. transformations and other
neato effects) at the end of the tape everyone said who they played and
their names.



The skit characters and their players:

Minx - Renee Morris
Gina - Ilene Morgan
Julia - Suzanne Metlay
Jodie - Liz Fox
Lilly - Gidget Bowden
Mason - Curt Lindmark
Reese - Rick Morris
Kelly - Jacquie Owens
McCabe - John
Micah - Mike Metlay
Plants - Leila Thomas

The main gist of the plot is that Minx tries to get rid of Gina by turning
her into a plant and gets all the characters and their personalities confused.
The skit was really was one of the highlights of Saturday and I would be
remiss if I didn't thank Vivian, Sucheta (sp?) and Nancy for using their
vivid imagination's to bring it all together.

Liz's SO will be making copies of the skit for everyone who wants one (so
make sure you order your early).

Evening:

We then sat down to a spaghetti dinner.  Thanks to everyone who helped,
especially Renee.

After dinner we did the trivial pursuit.  As teams were posted previously,
all I will say is that Suzanne, Gidget and Curt won both games  (I went to
bed after the first game).  I would like to thank Jim Armstrong for his
really tough trivia questions (but not to tough for Suzanne) and would hope
that he could post some to the net.

SUNDAY

Morning:

We had the bagel brunch.

Afternoon:

Toured Pittsburgh with the expert guidance of Mike and Suzanne.  As Rick
said previously we went on an incline (which scared me *sh--less*).  We
then went to Station Square which is an old train station converted to a
shopping center.  I was impressed by the stained glass, architecture and
the general beauty of the main concourse which is now a restaurant.


After spending most of Friday looking for the letter "C" we finally found
to chocolate C's (Ilene and I both bought one gave each to Suzanne and Mike)
at a store in Station Square.  From there we went back to Suzanne and
Mike's because Ilene and Rick and Renee had to leave.

Evening:

We had pizza for dinner and then settled down to watch old video tapes.
There was one from 1985 that had Robin Wright as Kelly when she was in the
mental institution and Pearl (boy do I miss that character) trying to help
her.  We also saw a tape of Mason and Julia with characters like Bunny,
Sonny Sprocket, Tori and other to numerous to mention.  There were probably
more things on the tapes that I am forgetting, so someone help me out.

MONDAY

Everyone left at 9:00 in morning.  I had a really great time and it was
nice to finally put faces to the names.  We really missed Vivian, Tammy,
Nancy, Joyce, Nelson, Linda, Pat, Lisa, and whole stacks of others.  Maybe
we can do this again in the summer (any volunteers)??????


Suzanne and Mike:  Thank you very much for the use of your home.  Your
hospitality made me feel truly comfortable and welcome.  You went out of
your way to make everything go as smooth as silk and exceeded beyond any
of our expectations.

Leila

p.s. If anyone would like, I will post the skit so you can get an idea of
who played what and the kind of part(s) they had.

p.s.s  About the memory book, I did not get much chance to work on it with
all the other activities.  I think we are going to include the skit, bios,
pictures of netters, year by year summary, and con pictures.  Maybe Gidget,
Jacquie and Suzanne could post something about that part.













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