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Congrats to #aboogie and his team! #salute Who can handles stages like this!!!! #Repost @artisthbtl with @repostapp ・・・ Good way to start the tour off #TBATour #LIT

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Breakfast with Trollando

For a while now Orlando Jones has been following Tiia on Twitter. It all started with this thing where Tiia photoshopped Orlando's castmate Tom Mison's face onto a Finnish folklore painting... don't ask. (Or, on second thought, do ask!)

So we've been tweeting every now and then, and before our arrival to Wilmington Tiia sent him a polite inquiry asking if they would be filming that week and if we could come and say hi.

Although we did end up on the set of Sleepy Hollow and met all sorts of fantastic people, that's not how we met OJ. He wasn't around that day, but he suggested breakfast on Sunday morning once he gets back from LA. We were amazed. Satu suspected someone was joking with us. "Maybe they got onto his account," she said. "Are we being punk'd?" we wondered.

But his regular tweets seemed, well, Orlando-regular at least, so we decided to give it a go. After setting up a time and place we booked a hotel room for one more night, joking about how Wilmington isn't gonna let us leave and how we were actually living Under the Dome (which, btw, they also film in the very city.

Early Sunday morning we headed to a diner he picked for us, parked our car, went in, got a table, ordered some coffee. When he was 10 minutes late, we were just shaking our heads, laughing, joking about how Ashton Kutcher was gonna run through the door and how it was gonna be the most boring episode of Punk'd ever.

But it wasn't Ashton who walked in. It was Orlando and he came bearing hugs and happyfeels. We broke bread, talked about our travels and plans and dreams and photos and basically just had a fantastic time. We didn't even have time to question him about his work as an actor or about any Sleepy Hollow stuff, but that's ok. It wasn't an interview anyway, although we're now sharing this experience with you all. (He said it's ok. "Write anything you want about me, I don't care.")

We had a very inspiring conversation about people who constantly get told to "get a real job" but aim for their dreams anyway. I mean... if Orlando "Trollando" Jones thinks it's more than ok to do that, I think we should all hear him out and stop listening to all the boring people.

Just the fact alone that he took the time to meet up with a couple of fans is quite awesome, but him being so supportive of what we do? That's what we're gonna run with.

By 10am he was already late for his next thing ("Yeah I'm gonna be in trouble") but took time for some photos and proper goodbyes.

What a dude. Our new favourite person ever.

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Guess what? We got stuck in the sand at Lake Silencio with our car. Like, proper stuck. Deeply, annoyingly stuck. 

We bet that didn't happen to the Doctor Who crew when they went out there to film scenes for The Impossible Astronaut. Or maybe it did. Maybe the same tow truck guy came to rescue them from the sand, who knows.

Sand trap or not, it was a beautiful place to visit and we'll tell you all about it later. We definitely recommend a drive up there if you ever get in the area! Just be careful with the sand.. 

Lake Silencio (aka Lake Powell) on Wikipedia

The filming location on Google Maps

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Welcome to Greendale! We just visited Los Angeles City College and sceneframed Community! Cool. Cool cool cool.