Travis and Michelle Fitzgerald's blog

(You’re going to have to bear with me today, we have several things to post about from the past couple of weeks, so there will be several posts today!)

The weekend of March 13-15, 2009, Michelle and I attended a Science-Fiction Convention, called All-Con, in Addison, Texas (near Dallas). This was my first convention (hard to believe for such a big Star Wars geek as myself, but still true), so it was an interesting experience.

We chose this convention because it is sort of the “home” convention of the Star Garrison of the 501st Star Wars Costuming Group, of which I am a member. (The Star Garrison covers all the folks in the 501st within Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.) So there were lots of friends (and soon-to-be friends) at the convention to show us the ropes.

The convention itself was kinda small. It was held in a fair sized hotel, and the entire second floor of the hotel (including conference space and hallways) was reserved for the convention. But there were still maybe 20-30 small booths. Most of the booths were costuming organizations, some artists, and vendors selling various sci-fi related swag (toys, costuming accessories, etc).

I spent most of Saturday in my Stormtrooper armor (8 hours, by my count), Michelle started with her Elizabethan dress and then switched to her new Star Wars crewperson outfit.

There were several events that we participated in. Friday night we had dinner with Peter Mayhew (who played Chewbacca in all of the Star Wars movies). Saturday we participated in a Q&A for the 501st, a bake sale to raise money for the American Cancer Society, the 501st group picture, and the 501st party.

It was a lot of fun, and we have some good stories from it (be sure to ask when you see us!). I posted a bunch of pictures from other photographers on our picture page. I didn’t take any pictures, because, well, there’s no place to keep a camera in my Stormtrooper armor.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the gallery:

A candid shot of us walking back to our room (one of the few pictures of me in my armor).

Us at the party.

Michelle looking beautiful.