I emerged pretty late that day. Beth had already gone, Sharon and I were going to be late for the OD's ! When we got there, we had already missed Marika and Vitaly, awwwww ! But Connie saved it by waving the banner herself, kudos to her for that, she did it amoungst all the bladers.
So here we were ready for the Dancing Fool voids again, wheeeee ! Got to see L&T's OD which we should have seen at Lalique but were too in a void for They rocked as well ! FP&M didn't look as sharp as they did at euro's, love Bab's ultra flourescent frock though Not to be outdone, Marina tiffs out in an even brighter orange number, go Marina innit ! Speaking of frocks and stuff, L&A surpassed themselves ! Talk about costumes Especially loved her red tipped Farah Fawcett hairdo We had seen Irina earlier at practices tiffin up Ilia's hair for him, that girl is like a mobile hairdresser ! She had with her a big sack of every spray, gel, hairbrush you can think of along with tonnes of other bits and pieces, just for the practice session. I guess I should be talking about skating ! But ice dance hair....it's an important business innit !!
Was very pleased and relieved after A&P skated, glad they made the change and for the first time I thought them better in the OD than FP&M B&K were the MASSIVE shock though! Out they came, finally I was going to see them live after all these years.....and they were PUKKA !!! Their OD rocked and I would have had it first in a moment ! Afterwards, I had to go out for a fag to calm myself down and think it through :)
We walked back inside the arena and ate in the restaurant with Emma Abraham, whom had already pre-warned us how rockin B&K's OD was. When we got back to our seats, Sharon had a message from Blades and we went to look him up at the next interval.
Next came the men, Yagsy was pukka as always He wasn't as pukka as Lalique, but amazing considering he was in pain ! Plushy was rockin too, I stood up, Sharon stayed in her seat LOL !! I guess she really ain't into the stretch velvet and gloves Voidy Sandhu came out and totally rocked tiffin it all over the place, YAAAY !! Todd toddstipating all over the place was just making me PML, he did good though I even stood up for him as well. We were rather busy watching Fran and the Todd fans though, we could spot them all the way from the nose bleed i think poor Fran went through every minute of it with him.
After that we went to the Hyatt and their we met Mishy with 2 invites to the IFS party, wheeeeee ! Gawd bless 'im innit I said to Beth to go up with Sharps as I was still untiffed ! I went back to our hotel and threw on a twin set, wheeeee ! When I got back, Beth had been in there and it was Meghan's turn, but she was so not leaving. Sharon went to retrieve the invitation and I went in. by this time, shells had arrived downstairs and Mands was also down there, so I left to go and get them, giving big innocent, perky smiles to the doormen who were peeing themselves laughing .
There was a free bar at this party and I guess I'm going to go into a void somewhat now. The first people we saw were Mishy who introduced us to Lois Elfman, she was really cool It was a bit voidy when she thought I was Sharpie, think that's cos of the talking Gwendal pic I said I was Guv and she then asked who was the one who is crap at hoovering LOL ! She took a picture of us all at our table .
After sitting at the table for a while and surveying the room, Meghan and I decide that we really needed to go mingle. We head off in the direction of John Zimmerman and Emanuel Sandhu. Sandhu is on one side and John is on the other, we both pause wondering which to go for first. We decide PJZ and suddenly Sharon just appears out of nowhere. We break the news to him that he was runner up for the award of FSU Porny Skater of the Year and tell him who won and who the previous winners are. He asks us what he can do to ensure he wins this year and we tell him not to get married and he said he wouldn't!
Next we turn to Sandhu and hail him as FSU voidy skater of the year. He seemed to instinctively understand what voidy meant ! We had to explain tiffin but he picked that up pretty quickly too and started tiffin it around the room saying "I'm tiffin ! I'm tiffin !" We also begged him to kiss the ice again .
Who was to get the next award ? FSU choreographer of the year Alexandr Zhulin PML !!! We started off discussing the OD where he stated that he too prefered B&K's to all the others. This naturally led on to discussions about politiks We also discussed Pasha and Maya, we used the phrase 'Old Wych' which he PMLed over and repeated (where the hell was me dictaphone ?!? UGH !).
Tom Collins was there as well and we started harrasing him to put shows on in Canada and the UK He finally gave in and agreed to do a show at Wembley........in 2010 !! WAH!
The bar then announced that it was last orders and we went for it, quickly grabbing 4 drinks each which sent us all into a total void We thanked Lois for the party, we had a fantastic time there Downstairs we met lfergrace and gave her a bit of a 40 beers-delerious greeting She must have been in total shock, poor girl.
So the Hyatt was closing up. As luck would have it though, pukka Dave had found a bar were you can smoke and had stayed in there until 5am the previous morning ! So off we all went in a cab to the famous Crime Lab !! There we were adopted by more Canadians, including the fab Jackson We had a delerious time in there until some ungodly hour and slowly staggered back to our hotels before it got light.
We *will* have that quiet night soon, honest guvs !!
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