Got up at 4:30am and snuck out the room quietly at 5am without waking up my friend, who was still sleeping. Originally I had 2 premiere tickets for Captain America: The First Avenger to take place at 10am with Chris Evans in attendance, but I gave them up to a couple friends who I would travel with after the Con (more on that later). Instead I met up at the Hall H line with Merissa & Melanie, a couple old friends that I met at the 2009 SDCC in the very same spot for Twilight: New Moon. We were waiting to see the panel for Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part I.It was awesome seeing them again, it felt like yesterday again.
For those who don’t know, Hall H is one of the biggest rooms in all of the convention center, besides Ballroom 20. Hall H holds about 6000-7000 people. It’s where most of the major Hollywood movie panels are held. Twilight of course is held there. In Twilight’s previous’ con appearance, about 50-100 people have camped outside the Hall just so they can get inside, get good seats and a good glimpse of the cast. This year, it has been reported that about 20-50 people started lining up in front of Hall H, 5 days before the panel! Heck, Comic-Con hasn’t even started either. But when I got there, it looks like security had kicked them out. It’s about time!
My encounter with Ashley Greene <3
Anywho, while catching up with my old friends in line, by surprise, a few members of the Twilight cast appeared to meet and greet the fans such as Nikki Reed, Elizabeth Reaser, Julia Jones and my personal favorite Ashley Greene. In past SDCC’s I’ve had encounters with Paris Hilton, Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck), and now I can add Twilight‘s Ashley Greene to the list. It was awesome. Unfortunately, I couldn’t snap a pic with her, as her people told her to move along quickly, but I did snap a really cool pic of her, as seen on the left. Now, this was WAY better than seeing Captain America, don’t you? 
Oh BTW, she’s the main reason why I go to the Twilght panel for those that are wondering why I attend the Twilight panel.
Access Hollywood were there right in front us and interviewed the stars as well. I believe if you watched the Access Hollywood later that day, you most likely saw me or my friends in the background. Summit Entertainment interviewed my friends as well, as they went around interviewing fans to be featured on the Breaking Dawn, Part I features DVD/Blu-Ray. I’m not sure if they will be featured for sure, despite them signing an agreement form, but I sure hope so. Overall, having a few of the cast surprisingly show up to meet the fans in line was a really cool idea. To top that off, we were also served breakfast as well. It killed a lot of time too.
11:15am - So the panel started. It’s funny, cause Twilight was the first-ever panel I ever attended when I first started going to SDCC, come to think of it. The main big 3 cast of Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner appeared, along with the director, and they talked about the upcoming film Breaking Dawn, Part I. They showed the trailer that we’ve all seen already, but at the same time, they showed an exclusive clip of the honeymoon scene with Bella and Edward. The rest of the cast appeared after the clip to talk about the film, and answered fan questions. On the way into the panel, we were given tickets that had numbers on them, and we had no idea what they were until the end of the panel, where it was a chance to win an invite at the Summit Entertainment VIP party with the Twilight cast. Believe it or not, I almost had the winning ticket, as I was off by two numbers. Ashley even picked out and read the ticket too.
12:20pm – It was awesome seeing Melanie & Merissa again, so I gave them hugs and had to jet to Ballroom 20, because the Ringer panel was about to start in an hour. I was super-excited to hopefully see Sarah Michelle Gellar in person, as it was not only her return to TV in 8 years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but also to see her live, as she rarely makes any live appearances. She first came to SDCC in 2004 to promote The Grudge, where at the time I said to myself that I wanted to go to SDCC, but had no idea how to do it at the time.
Anywho, to my surprise, when I go to the Ballroom 20, there were about over 3000 people ahead of me, leaving me no chance to see SMG and the Ringer panel. It was dissapointing, but also surprising, as in my past 2 Con trips, I was able to go from one big panel in Hall H to another one Ballroom 20, but quickly learned that wouldn’t be the case this time around. Here’s the sad part, each panel room don’t clear the rooms after a panel finishes, so they only let in so many people inside.
TV Guide Fan Favorites Panel
4:45pm – I didn’t get into the Ringer panel, but i did manage to get inside the TV Guide Fan Favorites panel, which was also in Ballroom 20. TV Guide Fan Favorites panel was a panel that featured some of today’s popular TV stars at the panel which included Zachary Levi (Chuck), Johnny Galecki (The Big Bang Theory), Jorge Garcia (Lost, Alcatraz), Kristin Bauer (True Blood), Matt Smith (Doctor Who) and The Vampire Diaries creator Kevin Williamson. It was a realy cool panel, seeing all these TV stars in one room. Zach Levi promoted his Nerd Machine clothing brand there by wearing a t-shirt and hat at the panel.
Now, I originally planned on staying for a Dexter panel in that room right after, but I got too exhausted, so I left to meetup with a couple friends and went out for dinner, then I came back to the Convention Center on my own to explore the exhibit floor more until close.
My friend and I met up at our room at 11pm and shared stories on what we saw at the Con. While he was playing video games on his laptop and going on Facebook, I went to sleep early (around 12:35am), because there was another big panel I wanted to see tomorrow: The Big Bang Theory.