Here's a mini-recap of the last Saturday:
To start our day, Charlotte and I still had some painting to finish. (With the OT I had earlier, combined with me wanting to keep the theater in operation as much as possible, painting took longer than expected.
) As soon as we woke up we finished painting the stairway that goes upstairs. The time? 1:00. I was guessing the first guests were going to arrive around 2:00. How's that for close, huh? :p
This is the finished room before my guests arrived:
Caesar keeps his reputation of showing up when a camera comes out.
This is Caesar and Noble's reaction when finding out another meet is "today".
This is Chewy's first meet, so he doesn't know the constant decibel bombardment he is about to receive.
The last step of preparation: My famous sign, maybe in its final year.
Chris was the first guest to arrive, closely followed by Robert and Michelle from Indiana. I'm very glad that Robert was finally able to attend a meet since he is overseas most of the year.
Robert is telling Chris about the progress of his theater. Michelle has pictures of it on her camera.
Meanwhile....
Charlotte is loading the fridge with the generous amount of beer provided by Robert. (Thanks again, Robert.)
Using my Xbox 360's streaming capabilities, I had a slide show of past meets, older configurations of my theater, and other general movie related photos, running while theater music provided by Angela and Art Sonneborn was playing in the background. The slide show ran as more guests arrived at the 4:00 official start time.
Here's Leif, Roger, Gino, Michelle, and Chris's head. Noble is looking to see if anyone is eyeing his bone.
The first demos I showed were some HD movie trailers that I have on my 360. During the trailer for "The Descent", Gino jumped and almost dropped his beer when the first glimpse of the underground creature was shown. It was pretty funny. After the movie trailers were a couple of game demos. When I was showing them Geometry Wars, an Xbox Live Arcade game, I had my highest score ever, so I didn't want to stop. :p Thanks for bringing me luck, guys! Finally, we began to watch some movie clip demos.
Ward, Chris, Robert, Michelle, Gino, and Roger enjoying some movie clip demos.
During one of their "smoke" breaks, Ward shows Robert, Michelle, and Leif his DIY rear speakers. I wish I would have taken more photos, he did a nice job on them.