We made it home from Trek Fest in one piece. It took a little longer than we thought to get there. Dawn overheated on the way so we had to stop and cool her down. She was one the verge of heat stroke I believe. Guess I'll have to get the AC fixed in the van, it made for a hot, long ride. Anyways, I was surprised when we actually got there .
Riverside, IA is pretty small. It reminded me of the town I went to high school in. One main street and a few buisnesses. I believe the population is around 900. Also, the movie "Fanboys" was not filmed there. "Fanboys" made it look bigger! There was a show called "Invasion Iowa" with William Shatner done there and also an "Extreme Home Makeover".
We were really late and missed the parade in the morning and the presention of the Honorary Membership to the 501st legion to George Takei for his voice work in the "Clone Wars" cartoon series. In fact I almost missed the Q & A I paid to attend even but I'll get to that in a moment.
When we first pulled into town, we hooked up with my friend Logan. He pointed out where a lot of the local points of interest were and we ran out to get pictures really quick.
Some of the floats from the parade were still around so we took some pics of them also.
Once we saw the town, we headed to the Q & A. Dawn went off and gambled in the Casino while I went and geeked out. I missed about half of the Q&A but still got to hear George Takei, Nichelle Nichols and Walter Keonig answer a few questions and tell a few stories. I was most impressed with Nichelle. She is truely an amazing women! After they were done, they held a photo and autrograph session. It was the first time Riverside had organized one of these and you could kinda tell. There were a lot of hickups but everything worked it's self out in the end. I added Nichelle and George to my cast shot and than had all three sign a group shot.
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