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No way! How utterly awesome of the 501st.
Mary, you are adorable! We need dinosaur news.
Wow… totally unexpectedly, that made me a little misty-eyed too. Sounds like a great experience for both the mom and her daughter (and all the other geek girls)…
@2 – Agreed. I feel like I’m missing out on a world of things that dinosaurs have been doing.
That was fantastic – it really brought tears to my eyes. I would have given an important body part for something like that when I was a little girl.
Star Wars got me hooked, too (except, it was the first move in the theater in 1977), and the original Battlestar Galactica pulled me deeper. Then I discovered Star Trek (TOS), and started taking Saturday classes at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (though back then it was the Buhl Planetarium), and my world has never been the same.
Damn onions!
Awww
There goes my mascara.
Yes, that made me weepy too.. which made my own geek girl say “Geez, mom, do you have to cry about everything?!” She gets told that her Batman lunchbox is just for boys all the time. But she’s as snarky to the naysayers as she is to me. I wish we had gone to the Con. Hopefully it will be back next year!
As the Mom of D and S (in the photo with Katie), it was simply amazing for me and my daughters as well. My daughters who are usually very shy reserved were comfortable and outgoing. They made friends so much easier with adults, Katie, and the other kids so much faster than they would have at home. Geek Girl Con was an amazing time for all of us.