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8 ) PLAY Convention in Modena Italy 11-04-2015 With excitement I had the occasion for visiting another country wich has a Garrison. Italy! It was also for meeting a great Legion friend from whom I had purchased some costumegoods & accessoires. Me and my girlfriend departed 10th april and had about 6hours driving south direction Milano and then turn direction Bologna wich is about 35km's away from Modena. The site & con contained about 3 big halls of shows & a lot of places to play card- and boardgames and also some merchandising. I had also the occasion to meet Alberto from the Italy Garrison, TD9009. It was a fantastic experience. A lot of fun and wonderful hospitality. I really have a bit the blues going back to bizz as usual. This is Alberto & me:

Same to everybody!

Looking nice! Shame that I can't be there :-(

Gratulations Brad!

Very sad. RIP Scott!!

Ciao! Grande!

Sidious Christ! Awesome Project Very impressed Matthew.

7) Birthday surprise visit, 28th January 2015. The guy & guests very liked it. We got lined up to surprise a big sciencefiction fan. In fact this guy has his job also in science and I think he's gona do a museum about spacetravel and so on from Jules Verne to present. He has some extrordinary stuff at home and on one of his walls are pics of him with people like Neil Armstrong or the head of Nasa. Very very cool.

Eh : - ) ! Good luck Rodrigo !!

Gratulations !!

Same from here! A good, healthy & successful Year everyone.

Well lookin'! Good luck Tony for Your deployment!

Gratulations again Vince. Greetings to downunder.

Like the look & weathering. Good luck for it Billy.

Looking top. And gratulations Uwe. Would be cool to meet You in armor some time. Greetings to Germany.

Congrats Ricky!

*Chingle Bells* Cool. Count me in.

Nice one!

Weathering of E11 and Armor is outstanding!

6) John Williams Concert, directed by Ludwig Wicki - 21st century Symphony Orchestra, MONTREUX Honestly first I didnt know so well who John Williams is , to my shame, until I saw the concert lineup. Superman, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Schindler's List, E.T., Star Wars. Wow! And I've never been in Montreux , where the jazzfestival is taking place. So driving 2hours with car I was gently surprised about this village at lake geneva. Almost a little Monaco. Lots of cars that looked like it is a place for the rich. And no chance to park my one :-/ but after all I had time to take a walk at the lakeside and go to the famous freddy mercury statue. Montreux @the lake geneva We were gathering up in the Jazzcafe, wich is close to the Auditorium Strawinski (the concert hall), had some drink & starter and were warmly welcomed by the Auditorium's Eventmanager, had a visit through the rooms & halls and had a chance also to listen to a first check of the orchestra practising, and then got lot of pizza :-) The plan was to start at 19h when the first visitors come. We even had a rehearsal as our group was planned for a short intermezzo in the 2nd part of the concert, after end of ET and start of Star Wars, where they played 4 songs in total. And it was absolutely overwhelming and amazing. We did our short Job well. Marched into the hall in almost complete dark and safety-checked the orchestra's director's stick about beeing a terrorweapon or not and stepped aside right after it, to listen to imperial march, the main theme, Across the stars and Duel of the Fate as encore with a great great chorus. Absolutely worth all time and energy spent. I'm not gona forget this evening so fast. Pic by Patric Bebie:

5) Swiss Fantasy Show - Morges / Switzerland taken place for 2nd time (Every 2 years). Guests this time: - John Rhys-Davies (Indiana Jones / LotR) - Adam Brown (The Hobbit) - Christopher Judger (Stargate) - Colin Baker (Doctor Who) Nice event all in all on 2 days, with more space this time in additional hall. Just a bit very hot by lack of aircirculation inside the building.

Thank You Rick! more to follow :

Looks very promising good luck for Your deployment!

Gratulation Gary!

Thank You, no Problem! For me it's a good compromise. And they were cheap indeed. I think test and testlenses were all for free. Well maybe that my normal glasses are from the same company helped that a bit as long years customer. It's well worth a try, just maybe ask before about the conditions.