Okay, it’s hard to write about something that was over a week ago now. But I’m going to try and summarise it all here so that I can remember for the future and stuff.

I didn’t go to last years tour event at Star City as I was stuck at work but this year I actually had a day off that was on the day of the event. It really was a last minute decision to go.

I jumped on a train Saturday morning not really knowing what to expect. It was just a quick ride from New Street to the Big W store where I met Charli (eclipse) for the first time. It was actually quite odd meeting her and I didn’t have anything to say! I then bumped to the front of the queue with ck!!! and Rhiannon and that’s where I stayed for the whole time we queued (near on three hours!) It was nice to finally meet the two biggest fans in the world! Also was nice to meet them as I’ve probably known them nearly five years.

The tables for the cast were located against a big glass window that we were all queing against. It was an amazing site once the cast started arranging themselves on the table. The crowd just stuck to the window! I imagine there was probably around 300 people there in total. It was a good turnout and the queue was nice and friendly which was good.

I was in the third group of six that got let in, along with Carl and Rhiannon, behind. It was really odd seeing them in real life, they seemed somewhat smaller and it was kinda surreal after watching them on TV.

Tom Hern was first and was really cool (and I’ll admit, looking very nice!) I told him that Rhi had developed a big crush on him in the last ten minutes . Saranne had also spotted us and announced to the cast who the three of us were. Tom said “Ahh, so you’re the infamous Mole!” Quite scary, did they actually know who I was?! But quite cool at the same time!

Danny James was dressed as Zoot, complete with contacts that were scary. I think he’s still got the accent that’s most NZish. It’s a loverly accent. He was also a dude.

Michael Wesley-Smith was next and was also reall cool. Rhi was almost fainting at this point. Both Tom and Mikey. And from here on my camera and carl’s camera just kept messing up! So I’ve got five shots of me and Mikey! At least one turned out okay. Shame that can’t be said for any of the other cast shots.

Toni Prebble was next and, thankfully, she’s nothing like her whiney charector. She’s really nice, she got my name wrong though as we were messing around with the cameras and that’s why we’ve got the awkward looking shot of me and her!

Meryl Cassie was next and she is such a cute tiny thing. She’s very bubbly though and, again, thankfully much nicer in real life than her charector. She signed, we had a photo and moved along .

Beth Allen was next. I wont go into Rhys’ crying antics. Saranne, who had followed us along, told me I had to cry too! I said I couldn’t, but could I have an autograph anyways? Beth said yes. Got my photo signed, a photo with her and a hug and that was all six of them!

Emily, Miss Internet Services, was sat on the end filming and I said “hullo.” Bless her.

The rest of the afternoon we spent opposite the cast watching the rest of the crowd getting things signed and getting them to do silly things so we could have photos of them.

When I was leaving to go back to New Street with Rhiannon and Carl there was still a massive queue outside.

It was a good day.