Jeff and I just got back from a prescreening of Serenity in Austin and guess what we bartered for? Well if you are not a die hard Fire Fly fan and guessed it from the title, Jayne Hats.

We had two extra tickets because Aim got sick and Justin couldn’t make it. Jeff was just going to see if we could just trade them in but when we got there this woman had a sign on the back of her truck “WILL TRADE JAYNE HATS FOR TICKETS”. I point this out to Jeff and we went over to see what the sign was all about. We told her that we had two extra tickets and she jumped out of her seat asking how much we wanted for them. To her astonishment we said that we would take the hats. We thought it a bit strange that someone would trade hand made hats, she was actually making them in the parking lot, for a pair of tickets. After putting on our new hats we went inside and this guy tells us that it was awesome that we traded the tickets for the hats because he had to pay a scalper $75US to get his ticket! After getting some drinks we went and stood in line and the woman that we traded the tickets to was so happy that she came up and gave Jeff and I a hug and thanked us trading the tickets to her.

I never felt so much like a geek than standing in line to see a movie and wearing a costume from the movie. It was like going to see Star Wars dressed as a storm trooper. I felt even more like a geek when we got into the theater and everyone started cheering because we were wearing Jayne Hats.

Before the movie started we had a surprise appearance by Nathan Fillion and Ron Glass. They stayed and watched the movie and had a Q&A and autograph session after the screening of the film, which involved a dramatic scene where Nathan spat water on my shoe.

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