Aug. 23, The Doctor Who Experience.

After a full night of fruitless negotiations with the Druids to release Mari,  Bruce felt that it was hopeless.  Mari was resigned to her fate, manacled to the walls of cold stone in the dark.  She began look at the resources left her when suddenly she heard a familiar sound:  A wheezing and huffing and then a blue police box appeared in her cell.  A very young man with a shock of sandy hair poked his head out, looking around, saying, "oh, no, no, no, no, I'm not supposed to be here.  Wait, wait, who are you?"  He glared at Mari.  "Well, what are you waiting for?''  Mari shook the chains she was attached to.  "Oh, well," he said, we'll sort that out directly."  He walked toward Mari and drew out his sonic screwdriver, quickly releasing her from her shackles.  " Now where were you supposed to be?"  Mari informed him of how the Druids had captured her and Bruce had left to go to the hotel.  "Well, I am the Doctor and I fix things"  declared the Doctor.  Mari followed him into his Police Box (bigger on the inside, of course) and travelling back in time he returned her to Bruce before he had a chance to begin negotiations with the Druids.  "Well, nice to meet both of you Americans.    If you wish you may join me on my adventure tomorrow, meet me at Olympia Two  tomorrrow morning.  

The morning dawned cold and rainy.  Bruce decided it would be prudent to take a cab, even though it was a long distance away.  We wished we could be transported by Tardis, but was satisfied with a friendly cab driver.  Entering the Doctor Who Experience Mari collapsed in a hysterical fan-girl heap.  Using a liberal amount of smelling salts and David Tennant's picture, Bruce was able to revive her.  On  seeing David Tennant's picture Mari swooned again and was taken around the exhibits by a hospital attendant and several very nervous staffers.  Hearing that Mari had received David's autograph a few nights prior, she was forced to detail every moment in the theater and outside the stage door.  She protetsted it was "Much Ado About Nothing".   

Seriously, though we did have a wonderful adventure with the Doctor.  The exhibit was a lot of fun, utilizing all sorts of technology, computer graphics, CGI, smoke, film, noise and 3D glasses we had an adventure with the Doctor, flying inside the Tardis and meeting moveable Daleks.

When the Doctor was saved we were allowed to wander exhibits of the 11 Doctor's clothing, some of the clothing of the companions, and most of the Monsters we had seen on TV all life-size.  It was very interactive and included making your own voice  sound like a Dalek and a cyber-man.  There were several screening theaters, a life size replica of the room where the artists create the characters and to our utter delight, a place where we had pictures taken with the Tardis, inside and out.  That was fun.  We are proudly bringing these home and hope to post them on Facebook.

We had dinner at an authentic English Pub and enjoyed the company of our waitress, Ebha, (Eva) an Irish young lady that is trying to get into the University here.  We topped everything off with a shared piece of decadent chocolate fudge cake, which probably shortened our life by several years.  Medics were standing by.

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