It Begins...

[Chalnoth Tholl]

And so it begins........

Left (Violet, KD, Janis, Chalnoth) Right (Queen Mum, Kelly, Caroline, Tiger).

A prelude to the festivities beginning tomorrow was a private audience with the King. The pre-Gathering dinner took place at Planet Hollywood in Downtown Disney. Good food, good friends. Let the games begin!

[Ciara]

Great picture! I'm there with you in my heart and spirit. I wish I could be there in person! Have a wonderful time, all my dear friends!

[reddogg]

awesome so far having a great time

[Chalnoth Tholl]

Here is a short video clip of some of the early festivities. The wii mini golf tournament is underway as is the Mexican Train completion. *pm Eastern is KD TRIVIA, In game and at Party participation. Prizes and UP gold to be won!

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2991/nqxmffmisfjnuwiokxyswz.mp4

[Jax]

Great picture and killer video of you all having a good time. I wish we could have been able to come down and hang with everyone. Maybe next time. You all have a great time.

[Queen Mum]

*Kristy guards the UO Goodies!!

CONGRATS TO EVERYONE

[Queen Mum]

THE PAS NINJA BANANA THIEF CRASHES THE PARTY!!!

[Ciara]

Thanks for the pictures! Thanks for including all of us who couldn't make it to the live event with the online KD Trivia! I've always loved KD stories and KD Trivia. Love those t-shirts! I bet you are all having Queen Mum cookies. Enjoy! How amazing that we had 11 elders present. That is more than usually make it to the Elders meetings! Wish we all could be there with you at Harry and Jo's home. Thanks for the picture of the "gifts"! They were all so thoughtful. Sending love to all of you in our UO family.

[reddogg]

wow yesterday was awesome an todaywill be just as good we ned to have more of these

[Chalnoth Tholl]

We had several special recognitions take place prior to our KD Trivia Event. First the KD Princesses were presented with pendants declaring them "Princess of the Universe"! Or was that Universal (as in Universal Studios) Princess?

The following video highlights the next recognition. It seems that GM Chalnoth had requested permission from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry to bestow a special Title, normally reserved for use by Hogwarts, upon a PAS member. Watch video before reading the letter from Hogwarts below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li6qFwzKYK8

This is a replica of the Hogwart's acknowledgement parchment being read at the ceremony.



See next post for more Presentations.

[Chalnoth Tholl]

OUR FINAL RECOGNITIONS WERE VERY SPECIAL IN DEED.

JANIS (Queen KD) was awarded a certificate of appreciation.


And KD was presented a testimonial plaque in recognition of his establishment of the "Best Gaming Guild on the World Wide Web".

See both of the Video presentations Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQHZ4u-gH9A

What a grand evening we had!

[Ciara]

I loved the video! Long live King David! Long live PAS! Thanks to Chalnoth and Violet Jo! Thanks everybody who came-- all PAS and Friends!

[Turgon Telemnar]

It truly was an awesome get together need a vacation to rest up lol. chalnoth and violet really out-did themselves. was really good to meet everyone and be able to put a face to the person . Cant wait till we can do that again. and btw am gonna get the persons that got the pics of me sleeping!!! watch your backs hehe

[KDSonoma]

I had a blast meeting everyone and their family members. It really did remind me of a family reunion.

Thanks to Chalnoth and Jo for allowing us to use their home for this gathering!

The Princesses and my wife had a great time as well, and I appreciate the recognition they received.

As for that head boy *smiles*, I believe that name has a chance to replace most of his other names, except for Mr. Wonderful (possibly)

I am totally exhausted even after being home for almost a day now. My computer did not like me leaving it alone and turned off for 8 days, so it decided to corrupt some files on me.

I am still working on recovery of one of my backups, which might take most of today (Sunday).

We had intended to arrive home later today, but when we called last week to see how our dogs were doing at the vet, they told us the little one (2 yr old 7 lb long hair blue dachsund named Abi) had torn up her bed, and wasn't eating much. So I decided we needed to get home by 11:30 Saturday to get them from the vet so they wouldn't have to wait till Monday morning to get freed.

We left at 5:30 am from Disney Animal Kingdom Lodge Friday morning. We stayed at Lake Charles LA, 5 hrs from the vets, and left at 5:15am, and barely made it to the vets on time to get the pups.

I'm glad we did because Abi had rubbed a raw spot on her nose from trying to get out of her cage. They went ballistic when we picked them up and we had a blast with them yesterday.

Once I get my computer up and running, I will get ingame and vent again to say hi to folks.

I'll post a longer message once I get more rest (I have been running on 2-3 hrs of sleep each night for 5 nights until last night, when I FINALLY got some real sleep).

I do want to thank everyone that was able to come to the gathering. I know it can be rough, or impossible to attend these sorts of events, but I appreciate all the PAS and their families that were able to attend.

I come from a very small family (just my brother and I), and this truly felt like a huge family reunion to me.

It was awesome to see PAS that I had met before in RL (most from Shino and Brianna's RL wedding in Georgia), and it was just as awesome to meet so many other PAS. I loved meeting Queen Mum for the first time, and I loved all the side chats that I had with so many of the people Thursday night. I wish I could have spent even more time with everyone, but I tried to pop around and spend time with as many people as possible, swapping UO stories, complaining about Tiger *cough*, and just generally having a blast putting a name to a face.

Tiger, I don't know what you did to convince Mrs. Patience to marry you, but I can tell you that was the best thing you ever did in your life. I hope that spell doesn't wear off enough for her to find out who she married.



OK folks back to recovering my computer.

*hugs* to everyone in the PAS and PAS extended family.

KD