We trooped at Star Wars Day at the Higgins Armory Museum today, and it was SO MUCH FUN!
It took me a while to figure out what it was… there were hundreds of kids there. Hundreds of well behaved kids, with their parents, who were there because they were super excited about the Star Wars stuff.
So as a result, rather than beating us with sticks, they were just psyched to be getting pictures with the Stormies, Jedi, Clones and Sith.
There were light saber demos, an armor making panel, and millions of photos. Well, it seemed like millions.
Rex was a crazy hit. This was my first time in an event as Rex with a lot of kids and me not just walking by. I felt like Santa Claus, but with pistols.
And the museum treated us so well… it was like if we wrote “this is what we’d love to have happen”, and they just followed it. They had food… breakfast and lunch. Drinks. Snacks. A changing room. A table in the main hall for us. Banners in the lobby. Free passes to come back and visit again.
Then after the event 2 members who live near the museum had a cookout / party, so we spent the rest of the night hanging out in their yard.
Overall, this is exactly what this sort of thing should be like all the time 
Tags: 501st, captain rex, costuming, rebel legion, star wars, trooping
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