.:Sunday, May 29:.

..:The Con:..

Friday:

Okay, driving up to the Con itself was interesting. The six of us all piled into Maniville's little sedan, that in itself would have been bad and cramped enough, but oh no. We all had bags as big as us as well. So, we got most of them in the back, but mine and nikki's bag had to go in the backseat with us. So there's nikki on the left with a giant suitcase on top of her, Katie in the middle with Tiffany and her Muraki coat on top of her, and me curled up in a ball with my suitcase in the space where your legs are supposed to go and my boots on top of me. We looked like a clown car, we got to the hotel and all piled out and there were people goggling us like we'd just grown another head. (Fairly normal for a con, but still!)

So, got into the hotel, met up with Assunta and Nic and Vikki for the first time in about a year. Also this new guy Julian, weird fellow, but good tastes overall.

Okay, the hotel the Park Plaza? SUCKS!! Check in is at 2, we got there at like four and were told our rooms would still be an hour till they were ready. The entire staff acted like we were doing them the greatest disservice in the world by staying at their hotel. I mean, fucking hell!! We're paying to stay there, think you could be at least a little polite to us? At one point we were out in the halls so we could talk without waking the people in our rooms up. What happened? We were told that we had to either go to bed or leave. So we went down to the lobby to talk, figured that we couldn't get kicked out of there, but oh no, they proved us wrong. They booted us from the lobby complaining that they had people to check in and we were in the way. It was 4 in the morning and we were tucked into a corner where no on could even see us. Bloody rude hotel...

The rooms were at least better than last year, we actually got double beds and air conditioning, always a plus. So, our room was Me, Katie, Nikki, Tiffany, Assunta, Michelle, Maniville and Manimole. A total of 8 people in a 2 persin room, it was SO damn crowded. But a con isn't a con without the ridiculously overcrowded rooms. There were bags EVERYWHERE!!! We all brought mass amounts of sugar as well, so we were well stocked to not sleep for three days and still act like we had just had caffeine injections. BTW, I love timmies. It is my god, for they serve us tea and give us caffeine.

So, cosplays. We did the X cosplay for the friday. Katie, in her full Seishirou suit and trench with the sunglasses and the wig. Bloody brilliant. Tiffany went as adult Subaru in the white coat and a black wig and jeans. Nikki was Hokuto in a red crinnolin, black sparkly top, black wig and black wings. I was Fuuma, the evil bastard in all black with spiked hair, purple sunglasses and a decapitated bloody head that I was tote-ing around. Beej went as Karen for Friday and Saturday, looked great even though it did make everyone do a doubletake, poke me and go "Are you SURE that's your sister?"

Saturday we all changed cosplays, Nikki went from Kaname Chidori Full Metal Panic, looked great. Schoolgirl outfit and blue wig and all. Tiffany was Sailor Tin Mouse from Sailor moon, amazing costume, all PBC leather and bells and mesh. She got stopped for ALOT of pictures. Me and Katie just did Tsuzuki and Hisoka.

Sunday we all went as the cast from Yami No Matsuei. Nikki was Tatsumi, I still can't believe she found that damn suit on the first try, she actually did the whole stone face thing too. Tiffany was Muraki and she looked bloody CREEPY. White suit, brown tie, white Jacket, white wig, powdered face and those brilliant damn glasses. Katie went as Inu-Tsuzuki, puppy tail, ears, and paws with a rumpled suit. And I was Hisoka, Jeans, Jean Jacket, a blonde wig and that stupid ornage shirt. They even put the curse marks on me in lipstick. BTW, Maxine 8 hour wear lipstick? it lasts more than 8 hours. I had it on for 3 days and it wasn't even starting to wear off no matter what I did to it.

The Yaoi room this year kicked ass!! So much damn stuff, like all the yaoi known to fan kind. Level C, Boku, Sensual, Legend, Haru, even a few live action films. We even had males in the yaoi room this year!! The best was the row of supermanly boys in the back hooting and cheering just as loud as the collected fangirls.

Dealers room, great this year, 2 mangas for $10, Bry found the X artbook for $40. There was a leatherworkers shop who was selling gauntlets and corset and purses that were SO well buit and amazingly detailed. The goth shop, had the Vash boots, The fur guy. Selling tails and ears and paws. The artists alley this year was really amazing too, got some great stuff. The button girls were there, I got yelled at for not going to CN this summer and then they did something which had me giggling all weekend. For our cosplays, since they were guys, me and Tiff did the ultimate sacrifice. We taped down the tits. Duct tape. OW. So the button girl looked at me, commented on the new haircut, then paused, looked me up and down and said "I thought you were bustier?"

People's costumes were really good this year too. Naruto was unfortunately still going strong, mage KT very upset. Vash was really popular again this year too. Other than that there was one other set of Yami people, a lone Muraki who was fucking creepy, a brilliant Kuroneko with a head the size of a table. (I had no idea how she could even hold her head up.) There was a shinsengumi squad, a hinoto which just amde me gape and someone came as Scott McNeil!! the VA! Wearing his red plaid vest and cowboy hat that no one's seen him out of in the last 6 years of cons.

Went to the Mikado's again this year, the food was amazing as usual. Our chef was funny this year too. This year Nikki got the most wicked camera and taped the WHOLE CON! She's putting together a tape for this year and had great fun with the Skanky cam all weekend.

Well, that's all for the con report for now, basically cause I desperately need sleep. But on a sidenote, did anyone see the Spacey awards? Richard Dean Anderson won for favourite male for, who else, Jack O'Neill, and he accepted the award in full SCUBA gear over a nice suit. That man needs to be commited as soon as he finishes Stargate.

Cheers all!

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Meru at 9:20 PM