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Ian's Web Log
Day 1 - Wednesday, March 20th - Flight to L.A. Day 2 - Thursday, March 21st - Universal Studios Tour Day 3 - Friday, March 22nd - Hotel Move and Fan Club Member Arrive Day 4 - Saturday, March 23rd - Exhibitions and Pub Moot Day 5 - Sunday, March 24th - The One Party Day 6 - Monday, March 25th - Recovery!
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Saturday, 23rd March - Brunch and Costume Exhibition

Brunch for the first few arrivals

    Having worked up an appetite the first group of arrivals headed for brunch

From left to right: Amy (Primula), Des (Desert Elf), Sil (Silver), Ward (Primula's brother), Shelagh (ShelaghC), Leslie (Pippin's Scarf), Pixie (Angry Pixie).
For some reason several of the party seemed to find the following store advert amusing!

    American advertising at its best?
Outside the Costume Exhibition

    Jen (LadyOBloom) arrived at the hotel at 12.15 to escort us all to the exhibition of Lord of the Rings costumes. There we met several new Ringers. From left to right (back row): Des, Silver, John (Moochelas' husband), Susan (Moochelas) with her children Andy and Kevin in front of them. Ward with his sister Amy (Primula) in front of him, Pippin's Scarf, Angela (Merry Pippins), Dabs and her friend Phil. Crouching are Jen (LadyOBloom), Peggy (Sierra) in the yellow shirt, and ShelaghC.
The exhibition itself was great, featuring costumes from many films: Moulin Rouge, Planet of the Apes, Pearl Harbor, Gosford Park etc. But one thing stood out heads and shoulders above the rest of the exhibits: Sauron's costume. No matter where you went his dark, satanic finger was pointing at you - he was scary and not far off 10 feet tall!

A separate booth showed the trailers for all the films featured in the exhibition. Needless to say, a loud cheer went up when the trailer for "Fellowship of the Ring" appeared!

Photography was not permitted in the exhibition so there are no pictures here - sorry! However TORn seem to have obtained pictures from someone who broke the rules, and you can see those pictures here.
Next stop was the Viggo Mortenson (the actor who plays Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings) exhibition at Track 16. Ian did his best to keep up with Jen (LadyOBloom) and, as far as he is aware, only went through ONE red light. (Photo taken by Ward without Ian's knowledge)

    Ian tries to keep up with LadyOBloom
Outside Viggo's Exhibition

    Outside the exhibition (from left to right): Leslie (Pippin's Scarf), Jen (LadyOBloom), Ward, Peggy (Sierra), ShelaghC, Amy (Primula) and Angela (Merry Pippins).

Click here for Viggo Mortensen Exhibition photo's