GH/PC Fan Weekend Event Recaps and Pictures:

I've been fortunate enough to attend several GH fan events. The following pages detail some of the adventures my friends and I have had at these events. 

2006 Recaps- page 1, page 2, page 3 [Scrubs!] and page 4

The funniest thing about this event is that NO ONE had any idea who was going to show up and what would happen. It was like a mystery event. I'd heard early that afternoon that Ignacio Serricchio (Diego) would be performing with his band and sure enough, ran into him carrying in musical equipment as the event was being set up. He was much cuter in person. The event itself was nice but much more casual than most GHFW events. People just lingered about, munching on snacks and drinking until the actors started showing up. The actors who played Diego, Max, Ric, Lucky, Detective Cruz [who is very cute in person, by the way], Mac, Georgie, Robin and Patrick all showed up at different times.

Ignacio was very charming and his band livened up the joint. Several people got on the floor and danced. The little girl who sang one of the songs was absolutely amazing! John J greeted his fans with his usual warmth and dazzling smile. Luv that man! Had to laugh when I overheard a fan quizzing Rick about the upcoming RAM sex scene. He didn't seem to pleased about it [the scene] but stayed most the night to meet with fans. 

For three days, I kept running into Jason Thompson... or more accurately, almost bumping into him or not seeing him standing next to me. Talk about oblivious. And he was #2 on my To Meet list this year, after Tristan. Imagine my surprise as I'm enjoying the concert when Kimberly comes up to stand right by me on my left and Jason on my right. The cameras swooped in as everyone realized who they were and poor Kim and Jason seemed a bit overwhelmed. It was pretty late and they apparently just got off work. As we were leaving the event center, we ran into Scott Clifton trying to find the event. He said he'd just gotten off work too.

In one of those amazing, freaky turn of events, I got invited to attend a taping of Finola's show, How Do I Look?  A friend of a friend met one of Fin's production people who invited her to bring 10 friends to the taping.  The young lady being made over didn't have much family and friends in the area, so we ended up being the friends of the family.  And in another turn of irony, several of us in the waiting area kinda knew each other from posting online.  We had a great time yucking it up while waiting to get to the set.  Finola popped in and chatted with us a bit, then her two little boys came in as well.  They are so adorable!  I think Cash didn't know what to make of us, he kept staring at us like "Who are you people?"  His big bro Dylan was more outgoing.  It was so evident how much Finola loved being a mom and her boys.  Then they all left, Fin promising we could take pics later.

I've never been to a show taping before and it was quite a new experience.  The set was very nice but so much smaller than it looks on tv.  There were all these lovely chandeliers hanging down and a fashion runway.  It was also hot as blazes in there... but I wouldn't trade the experience for the world.  The heat from all the lights seemed to cancel out the air conditioning.  Everyone was very nice and Finola was great.  The woman never sweated, despite the fact that everyone else was melting, literally.  Talk about composure.  Two of the participants on her show were the couple that won the Amazing Race competition - Joyce and Uchennya (sp?) - so those of us who watched them on tv were thrilled to meet them too.  He was really nice and came over to chat with us several times.  The man who walked us through what we should do was very entertaining and one of the writers sat with us a bit and chatted.  Some of us thought he looked familiar and finally placed him.  He used to star on the Nickolodian show "Arcade" years back. 

After the show wrapped up taping, we all went outside to take pics by Finola dressing room [see photo above].  Despite it getting late and she needed to get home, Finola very graciously posed for pics with us, first as a group, then individually.  And signed photos and GH books people had with them.  Talk about a classy lady.