Cardiff Torchwood meet-up

[silver_sun]

I had so much fun this weekend :) so first things first, here are my photo's , not as many as I thought I was taking as I did have some minor camera problems – like not actually knowing how the camera worked for most of the time :) Some of the photos are framed a little odd as I later discovered that the image in the viewfinder wasn't the image that the camera was taking *cheers for great design feature*

Anyway I got there on Friday evening and met up with everybody and went for a meal, then we all went ice-skating. That was interesting and not as difficult as I thought it would be as I’d never actually ice-skated before and it must be something going on fifteen years since I last roller-skated. I don’t think I made too much of an idiot of myself as I only fell over once :)

Saturday we spent most of the day down at Cardiff Bay where, even thought it rained pretty much continuously it was still fun. Spent a while taking photos on the Plas and of people standing on the 'invisible lift'
The water tower definately looks better with the water switched on, also the paving slab/invisible lift actually quite small.

Then we headed down the Plas to where the 'Torchwood Tourist office' is. I never realised/noticed from watching the series just how close the door is to the sea, it's only a few feet for anybody who is interested. Maybe they film it so it doesn't look like that. *is confused*

We went and had a look at the Doctor Who exhibition and I bought a little led sonic screwdriver torch. There wasn't any Torchwood stuff in the exhibition or even any Jack, which was a bit disappointing - but the Who stuff was cool.

Looked round the Millenium Centre were they filmed scenes for Doctor Who episodes New Earth and for The Sound of Drums. They have a small Doctor Who exhibit there as well, although the main Torchwood item that they have, 'Risen Mitten' wasn't in it's display case. *wonders if it's being used for filming again* The cat nun/nurse was still there though.

Also had a look at the Assembly Building which was used in The Lazerus Experiment - none of the photos I took of the Assembly building came out *stupid camera :( *

When the weather decided that it was going to get so bad that we really didn't want to be outside any more went bowling. The bowling lane we were all using was really random, sometimes it only gave you eight or nine pins other times it say you had a strike even if you'd only knocked down nine pins or give you three bowls per turn. I like random bowling though, it's much more fun than regular bowling :)

Weather was better on Sunday and we went for a picnic in Bute Park after wandering around a market by the Millenium Stadium *how confusing is it to have both a Millenium Centre and a Millenium Stadium in the same city?*
They sold nice cakes in the market, especially welsh cakes, sort of like a fried scone/scotch pancake.

Saw quite a few other filming locations, including the Alto Lusso building (the one Jack stands on top of in the opening credits of Torchwood) and City Hall (any big official building in Doctor Who and somewhere else that Jack stood on top of)

All in all it was a great weekend, everybody was lovely, sorry if I came across as too quiet or standoffish or something (people have said that about me in the past) I'm just a bit rubbish at being around lots of people for any length of time.

Potted version of why I’m so pants around lots of people is this(becase it's really nobody's fault bar my own). I was home schooled due to my brother’s illness and there only really being my mum around, we lived in the middle of nowhere so I didn’t have any friends/people my own age to speak to/hang around with until I left for college = truly sucky social skills. *sorry if that sounded all emo wank and stuff*
Still that’s all in the past and I really did have fun this weekend :) and would definately go on another meet up.

Comments

[whatwas.livejournal.com]

oh wow..... I'm like totally jealous that you had this trip...........

sounds like you had a great time..... and that's always good!!!!!!

[sasha-lilyrat.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm home-schooled too! :D *high fives* Totally hear you on the social skills thing - I've got to start college in September and I'm TERRIFIED. It's sucky. But as long as you had fun and didn't feel left out or anything, it's all good. *hugs*