Onwards to Saturday!

Saturday I got up and called BM and Mihshehl... they seemed more tired than usual and I didn't know why. I got dressed, went downstairs thinking it was the right time. Then someone told me it was only just after 8:30 am which was WAY earlier than I had planned to be up. We were supposed to meet downstairs for breakfast at 9 ish... then I suddenly realized my clock was wrong by one hour. It was an hour fast.  So Now I understood why BM and Mish were dragging and I was too the last day or so... I felt so bad I apologized to them both later on. LOL I just felt so stupid for being up so early and dragging them with me. It was really bad since we were going to bed around 1 or so every night.

Most of the people in our group went to the CN Tower... I'd have gone had I not been broke from the seriously HIGH hotel room deposit the Days Inn people decided to inflict upon me. I kept insisting I wasn't going to make any calls or anything but the deposit sat and I was limited to paying for food and basic stuff like that.

Anyhow... BM and Mish didn't want to go because of expense, needing rest and needing to plan things so I stayed to help BM when he wanted to take things to the presentation room and also to help out Mish. We ended at the Eaton Center mall with Mike who led us around to the food courts and such. We looked at some goodies in the electronic stores and I got sucked into every stall with a Sanrio or otherwise anime looking item while Mish was sucked into all the shoe and clothing stores.

Finally we took off back to the hotel to meet up with all the peoples coming back for the Myst IV Revelations presentation by Ubisoft. They laid out a nice table of goodies for us including some fancy desserts (insert picture here later.)

I sat down for the first hour or so of the presentation. It seemed to take forever (probably cause I was so tired from walking and such) and after the first "tour of Ubi" movie with Patrick leading us thru an interesting tour of Ubi and the Revelations team, I saw BM sneaking out and I snuck out too. Not to say I wasn't interested in Ubi and their presentation, I just wanted to make sure BM didn't need help with the whole presentation thing we were going to be setting up for the fans. He had ducked out for a call which by chance was from Rium+ complaining that the webcam for Ubi or something should be moved to the "left" a bit. LOL Weird weird wierd. BM said he was a little surprised to hear someone from Australia calling him.

So from there we (BM, Mish and myself) went upstairs and started to see if we could get the room set up a little early. We helped move all 2 tons of BM's stuff down to the specified room and I babysat while more was taken down. It probably took about 30 mins or so to get it all down and start setting everything up. We even had lon helping out with some of the stuff. Meanwhile the M-IV presentation went onwards. I do believe it was a good 4 hours of info.  In the meanwhile we hadn't eaten so while people presenting watched the stuff and the room, BM had gone down and ordered this huge mess of Sushi  so he, Mish and myself went to the bar down at the Lobby and ate it there. BM even got each of us some miso soup. OMG that stuff is so good.

So finally it was time to let the presenters in once the M-IV stuff was over with. Everyone came up and started to trickle in. After some setup with the presentors and such we were able to let the rest of the people trickle in to seat and get ready to view things. BM was constantly running around as was Mish getting things set up and ready. We had a pretty full house too. Probably a good 80 people but I never really counted to be sure. I know they said the M-IV thing had a good 100 or so people. We had most of them come to the fan presentations.

Some of the presentations included:

Mysterium House Animation by lonely, the world and Aaron

Guild of Greeters (wonderful movie... not a dry eye. I thought I was going to bawl  

Anna Cat with her Narayan group (they passed out booklets with puzzles)

Ran and (I'm sorry I forgot the other guy's name) with the MIRI (Myst Island Recreation ....)

And during, between and after... Lots and lots of door prizes. I didn't win anything but heck... it's not about winning. I went to meet my virtual buddies.

So after all the excitement people wanted to go eat... I believe BM, Alah, Hydro, Mish, SR388 and myself were out to the Elephant and Castle. I was poor so I got me a little platter of pretzels and mustard. OMG these were the BEST pretzels ever in the whole entire world!  I hated finishing them they were that good. Max got a huge nacho platter, Hydro and Alah shared something I forget what and SR388 and Mish shared some calamari.  All was good.

After that it was just people hanging out in the lobby and a bunch of us went to BM's room and backseat blogged with him. It was fun.

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