As soon as we arrived to the hotel we were greeted
by a bunch of Pezheads...
Their arms full of PEZ that they had
just purchased and me not wanting to miss a beat grabbed my husband and started
to practically running down the hallways to start room hoping!
I was on a
mission!
I need minis, Barky's and anything that caught my eye!!!!!
Word got out
what I was hunting for and I was sent to Silas's room....
He had a mini set that
I needed.... YES!!!!!
As I'm in the Hosts room I realize OH we haven't registered yet
oops!!!
We make our way to registration and pick up our registration bags.
Inside we find our attendee dispenser, a pint glass,
a pin and a bunch of other
cool ATX swag.
Silas runs down the list of events for us and up first is
karaoke.....
Oh NO...
I love to sing but I'm horrible at it....
I decide I'll
let the hubby and my friends handle this.... Well....
As the drinks start
flowing and the Pezhead start piling into the convention room we all just start
dancing and randomly singing to whatever song is playing.... Then things got
serious...
Silas grabs the microphone and starts up the karaoke contest...
He
belts out a song and then Jerry Battenfield gets on stage...
This very nice
quiet man whom I never thought would be doing karaoke sings
Lil Red Riding
Hood!!!! He rocked that song!!!
One by one Pezhead get up on stage and sing!!!!
(There are videos of everyone singing if anyone wants to see them lol)
Ok so now
I'm being pressured to go sing... Ok ok I pick a song...
Bohemian Rhapsody...
Now why do I pick an extremely long song? I HAVE NO CLUE!!!!!!
But it won me the award of WOMEN PEZHEAD IDOL!!!!!
Everyone did great singing
and the karaoke party was a blast.....
Silas made sure that everyone
was entertained with
lots of PEZ activities and seminars....
He gave a great
one on PEZ pals, where everyone learned a lot of information.
Travis Clifford did a seminar on Halloween PEZ,
which was broadcast live by
Bubby PEZ on WPEZ-TV.
That was a lot of fun!
Cliff Lee had a seminar on PEZ 101
where
even veteran collectors learned some new stuff.
The next day back to room hoping...
Pezheads are wandering all over the hotel trying to find the PEZ that they need.
Silas planned a bunch of events for everyone to do.
Easter egg hunt
Making a
special PEZ truck for a truck race
A kickball game (got cancelled due to rain)
The Truck race Charity Auction Raffles A guessing game Presenting Awards
The
charity auction was amazing...
The Crazy Funny Landon was our auctioneer.
He turned himself into a Ringmaster for the auction!
He costume was spot
on!!!!
He auctioned more than 20 lots raising over
4000 DOLLARS for Austin's
Pets Alive!!!!!
After the auction it was time for the truck races!
Mamma Lamay
(Aaron Lamays mom) was the 1st place WINNER and won a cool prize ATX dispenser!
After the races Silas pulled the winning tickets for the raffles ...
I won a Brutus Pez dispenser .... Jeanine Elwell won a special red ATX
dispenser and then a Vucko and a Frankenstein were raffled off also.
Now it was
time for the Awards.... Everyone was given a sheet of paper with a list of
categories and we had to write down names of who we think deserves these
awards...
The Landon of course won Party Animal and
the Peter PEZ Award.
Aaron Lamay won Pezhead King and Bubby PEZ was his
queen with him winning the Pezheads Queen award!
Phyllis Oreck won the person
most likely to be buried with their PEZ.
Juan Orozco won Pezheads Male Idol and
I won Pezheads female idol!!!!
I also happened to win the guessing game.... We
were told that someone's gathering pack had something different about it than
everyone else's....
Aaron Lamay was trying so hard to win but me being a sly fox
was able to figure out the difference before him!!!!
On one bag the ATX logo was
printed on the wrong side!!!!
I won a blue ducky ATX dispenser!!!!!!
The Convention came to an end and a large group of us went
out for a BBQ
Dinner..
Hey we are in Texas after all!!!
After dinner the group split up.
Some
went back to the hotel and some went out on the town...
I'll let you guys guess
what one I did;)
All in all the ATX PEZ Convention was fun.
Buying PEZ, playing games, and
hanging out with your best friends...
What else does anyone really
need?!?!
Thank you Jessica <3 for your story and pictures,
and also a big thank you to John Nord for the pictures :)
