I was lucky enough to get to meet Nina at Eyecon and see Ian at the first ISF event. I also got to attend The Ripple Effect Charity Event in Los Angeles as well. Here’s what went down:

My 2 friends and I were in Covington for the Mystic Falls tour, and lucky for us they were filming that day! We’d driven past Elena’s house that morning before the tour and saw the “filming ahead” signs, most excited i’ve ever been to see a sign lol

The tour was really amazing and I was so happy to see the locations from our beloved show. After the tour we went to where they were filming at Elena’s house and waited with a bunch of other fans that were in town for Eyecon. We weren’t allowed too close to filming but we still got to see a few things from episode 3×10. About an hour or so after we got there, Matt Davis walked past (I waved at him and he just smirked at us ha ha), Steven R Mcqueen came over to say Hi to everyone which was really cool, then a little while later, Nina came to see us! I was almost crying seeing her for the first time, she was really really sweet and took a few pictures with fans before someone from the crew (or her PA, not too sure) came and said she had to get back to filming.

We stayed for a few more hours and got to see the scene with the jeep hitting Alaric, Elena running in the red shirt (we drove past later on and there she was jogging, so cool!) and most importantly, the Delena kiss scene! We weren’t allowed close enough to see what was happening on the porch, but we could see the crew on the lawn, and they parked Damon’s car next to us and then drove it to the house, so we knew what scene it was when we saw the episode. It was an amazingstart to the convention weekend and I was so happy we got to see Nina, Steven, Matt & filming.

I got to meet Nina officially at the photo-op at Eyecon, I was getting butterflies a bit as it got closer to my turn to take a picture with her, but she was really sweet and said “Nice shirt! Thanks for supporting me” when she saw I was wearing the Hunger Bites t-shirt she designed. Then later on in the Q & A when someone asked her if she supported any charities, she mentioned Me to We etc. & looked at me & said something like “There’s a young lady there who’s wearing the shirt I designed” then I like stood up and showed everyone the shirt lol it was really cool.