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I have one last story to tell involving 2 hobbits and a
chicken. On Sunday night, it seemed like the majority of the people were
in the Hyatt lobby. It was packed with people mostly in costume posing for
pictures. We had been there for a couple of hours taking pictures when we
decided it was time for some Hobbit grub. We came back to the lobby just
before mid-night to find it even more crowded than before. We decided to
call it a night, but before we left we waited to say goodbye to some new
friends. My family was downstairs avoiding the crowds, so I decided to
tell them that we were going to leave shortly. Merry decided to accompany
me down the elevators.
The elevators were packed, so we got on one that was going
up figuring that we would stay on it when it went down. Imagine our
surprise when it came back down and a hotel employee told us to get out
that they were "commandeering" the elevator. After telling him
that we were trying to get to my husband and son, he told us to stay on
but get back. The next thing we see is this huge clawed foot come around
the corner, and then the entire body of an 8 foot monster chicken starts
walking towards us.
Now we are in a rather small glass elevator, and we are
both wondering how this is going to work. I am sure that several people
know about the children's book "Where the Wild Things
Are". A group of people showed up at the con dressed as the
wild things (Amazing costumes), and this was the chicken from that book. I
guess I'm weird, but I never liked these characters. Okay, so they freaked
me out. Heather told me they were in the lobby. I stayed put on the
other side to avoid an encounter and now I was stuck in the elevator
with one. Of course, our friends could see us and thought this was
hilarious, and judging from the photo flashes it must have looked odd with
2 hobbits squished against the glass with the big chicken deciding if
Second Breakfast was not such a bad idea. Unfortunately, Heather couldn't
get a picture at her angle with the flashes. But eventually, we found it
caught on film on the Official
DragonCon Site...
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