Getting Our Nerd On

Marcus' good BYU friend Steve, who conveniently now lives across the street, received four passes to Comic Con from his work, so Steve, his wife Ariel, Marcus, and I decided to go get our nerd on and people watch.  And you know what, it actually was a lot of fun.  We mostly wandered around looking at all the people in costumes and through the aisles of booths, but we were exhausted after a couple hours.  There was so much going on-- it was definitely a new world.  Since we saw so much in such a short time, I'll just narrate through the pictures I have.  But you can imagine the crazy costumes and crowds.

We technically had Press Passes, so I won't lie, I felt pretty cool.  :)

The Show Floor

Gandolf in Lego form!

We saw Sean Astin (Sam from Lord of the Rings), but no autograph because it was crazy expensive.

Tom Felton (Malfoy) had been there too, but again, very expensive, and he left earlier in the evening.  Sad day.

Had to take a picture of the Camaro since... it's beautiful... and our passes came from Chevrolet.

Bumblebee!

One of our favorite cartoonists was there selling/signing his books.  I thought I had snagged a picture of him too, guess not.  But we were pretty excited to get an actual copy of our favorite cat comics signed by The Oatmeal himself!

A Quidditch Tournament

And some more crazy lego creations:

See, so much to look at!  Fun for everyone.  Who would've known?!  :)  But we had a really enjoyable time.  We were glad Steve and Ariel invited us to go along.  And that made two big nights out this week-- thankfully we've had a great babysitter here to stay with our little guy.

And for your teaser picture, look who's now totable...

Yep, that's little Chase in a baby carrier, and he seems to really like it.
(Plus, the subway is so much less daunting now...)