My sister and I planned on going to a presentation by a few of the Wizard Rock bands on Saturday morning. We got up shortly before it and were getting ready to go. Then we heard an announcement on the PA system. It was really quiet and hard to hear in the room, but then a fire alarm started going off. My dad and brother were still asleep. I peeked my head out the door and didn’t see anyone leaving. The maid said it was a test. My dad woke up and asked what was going on and we told him the alarm was going off but the maid said it was a test. My dad said we were evacuating. My sister woke my brother up, told him we had to evacuate, and his response was “I’ll do it later.”
We ran down a maze of stairs amongst other very confused Harry Potter fans dressed in various states of pajamas, costumes, Harry Potter t-shirts, and Muggle wear. Eventually we found ourselves on the sidewalk and there was a firetruck raising its ladder. The firemen weren’t dressed in their suits, though. They were wearing t-shirts and jeans.
Shortly after we got onto the sidewalk, John Noe of PotterCast came out the door. He was the only PotterCaster we hadn’t gotten the autograph of, so my sister and I asked him to sign our programs. He did, but without much conversation because he looked half asleep. He was also carrying his shoes instead of wearing them.
Melissa Anelli came out the door a little while after John did, carrying her MacBook. I then realized that I left my iBook in the room and told Melissa that she was smart to bring hers with her. At this point, we still didn’t know if it was a drill or not.
Then the truck lowered its ladder and they announced that it was safe to return to the hotel. To this day I am not sure if someone pulled the alarm or if it was a fire drill.
We went back up to the room after that to grab Pop-Tarts and Mountain Dew before the Wizard Rock presentation. When we got there, only Swish from Swish and Flick and Paul DeGeorge were there. We spent half the time talking about various fire drills in college and eating breakfast. Then Steph from Tonks and the Aurors showed up and although they were only half of the people who were supposed to present, they talked about Wizard Rock and it was fun and interesting. Definitely a unique way to start the day. An evacuation and breakfast with Wizard Rock bands.
Filed under: LeakyCon 2009 | Tagged: LeakyCon, LeakyCon 2009, Wizard Rock
The alarm went off when we stayed at the Fairfield Inn in NJ. Well, it went off when we weren’t there.
But we received a note(slid under the door) the night before about the test alarm.
So are you still at the Con? My friends go to Anime ones and they always have a great time. I really wish I could go to the Anime Expo or Comic Con this summer in Cali.
We stayed at a hotel in West Virginia (passing through to… somewhere) a few years back that had some big shin-dig going on. Tons of drunk college kids running everywhere. Someone pulled the alarm around 1am.
You can imagine how happy we were about that in the middle of this twenty-hour drive to somewhere. I think it was North Carolina.
I wonder what the firemen thought when they saw all these people dressed up like wizards.
Actually, I’ve been home from the Con since the day before Memorial Day.
I didn’t start blogging about it until after because the hotel was charging $12 a day for Wi-Fi.
Comic Con looks awesome. They often have some sort of Harry Potter related event at it. I’d go if it was closer.
1 am, that wouldn’t be fun. Although I’d prefer that to the 3 am one we had the second day of school.
Hehe, I hope the firemen enjoyed the unique experience to their day.