Saturday, August 23, 2008

August 17th, 2008 - Mall of Georgia TRU Grand Opening

Wow, what a busy time to be a member of the 501st! New movie, new books, new toys, and a new Toys R Us location grand opening!

TRU had originally requested us all weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I think that would have killed us! Hehe! So, we settled on Sunday. Good thing they also had Geoffrey and Strawberry Shortcake to take up the slack.

As I've discovered is typical with the Garrison, real life gets in the way and everyone cannot be expected to attend every event. This event was looking to be that way with folks that had signed up to appear suddenly having to change their plans. It was starting to look like I was going to be there by myself!

Kris was on the fence about coming, but ultimately was able to clear his schedule. And I put in a call to Madog and pretty much begged him to come on out with Scorch again. He had a few wardrobe malfunctions that he needed to fix, but ultimately agreed. Phew!



And a surprise for me was another TK showing up unexpected. Thanks, Danny! It was a good "troop", lots of excited, and sometimes astonished kids!


Attending:

Kris - RC/TK 6247
Steve - TB 2719
Darrell - RC Scorch
Danny - TK

Liz, Josh - Costume Support/Photographers
Julian - Costume Support

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