Otakon report
Thursday
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I caught a ride with Zand and his friend to our hotel in Baltimore. OMGSH it was so beautiful. A 1940's classic look with the 7th floor atrium being an exact replica of the penthouse suite from Hellsing OVA 3 (We seriously tried to take pictures up there but our Alucard forgot his Rio suit >_<).
We headed over to the convention center to get into that long line, but changed our minds quickly (line was way too long), so we decided to go around 10'ish. So later on, we headed back to our hotel to meet up with my boyfriend Jonnystarwind and change into our cosplay for the Dracula shoot later on that night and for the dinner at the cheesecake factory with the rest of the gang. . . no one was there, instead they went to Johnny Rockets. So, after eating with the gang there, my group went to the Dracula shoot, and instead of taking pics, we ended up scaring this cute little 11 year old boy (who for some reason kept coming back and messing with us). Afterwards and several tries *lol*, he gave me a hug and ran off with his older cousin. We all then headed to the convention and got our badges. As soon as we got back to the hotel and hung out for a few hours with my friends from NY until 2am. I then had to paint "many-man" in Kanji on Jonnystarwind's pink boxers for his boxer's Pip. It was sweet.
Friday
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The Hellsing photoshoot was awesome! Everyone loved his boxers Pip, and I got to meet some new friends and be re-united by my old ones. The dealer's room was bigger than I remember from last year (I could be wrong). I looked around for Happy Japan, my favorite Japanese kitchenware booth for minutes until Jonny finally pointed it out to me which made me happy. I ended up buying a pancake maker shaped like Hello Kitty and some vegetable stencils.
Later on in the evening, we went to the Dub Actors after dark Panel...woah. Who knew that they could be so vulgar? It was uncomfortably great! After the panel, instead of going to the Rave, we headed back to our hotel and ordered out... bad idea ordering from ... Well I forgot the name of the place, but the delivery boy was very rude to me about where I was, why I didn't come down to get our food, etc. Turns out he was at the wrong hotel; yeah... we were not happy. But we got our food and watched Edward Scissorhands.
Saturday
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Longest day ever. Jonny and I woke up around 8 and got ready quickly to head to the convention around 9am to wait in line for Crispin Freeman who was going to be spending the day at the convention. Well, turned out that the convention let people in an hour early (8am), and they were already in line. So we all had to wait in the overflow until 1:15. Wasn't exactly something I was expecting, but after 4 hours, I finally got to meet him. He was very nice, and wrote "yes...my master" on my mini-poster and read it aloud in the voice of Alucard; I was dressed as Integral. My face went completely red, and out of emberassment, I thanked him and quickly left the room. I ran into Tigress and Fijicard and we all freaked out like fangirls. What made me sad though was the fact that Jonny couldn't get his because he had to pick either Mary Elizabeth, or Crispin and couldn't get back into the line because of some dumb rule they had.
After going back to the hotel room to change into Chii, I decided to just hang out and take some pictures of the Hellsing photoshoot. I ended up missing the whole thing because my blood sugar fell dangerously low. So I went to get something to eat. I luckilly did make it to the second Hellsing photoshoot dressed as Seras, and hung out with Andrew, Frank, Irenthel and Tigress for most of the night. Sadly, Jonny had to run a panel. So, we sat in on the Hellsing Ulimate Panel of Ultimateness...omg it was the funniest thing ever. Mish was really live that night. I think it was the alc-SPRITE!...Yes, it was the Sprite *lol*. Luckilly, Jonny finally joined me, and we finished sitting in the panel and took some pictures. Afterwards, Jonny, Frank, Irenthel, Tigress and I hung out in the con's lobby until 2am. Then Jonny and I went back to the hotel room to work on my algebra quiz that had to be due before 3am...I got an A on it thank God.
Sunday
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We packed our things up, and put them in the check room of our hotel...believe it or not there were only 4 groups of suitcases from other people, so it wasn't a long wait at all. Headed to the convention and raiding the dealer's room for hours. I got some Lucky Star figurines, some stuff for my bento, and some cute EGL earrings. After that, we headed upstairs to hang out with Tigress, Irenthel, Andrew, and Frank and said our goodbyes.
So in retrospect...this convention was awesome. Absolutely awesome. I miss it already and can't wait to do it again next year. Speaking of, I now get to host the hellisng panel next year. Pretty much everything is done and planned out, even the people who are going to be working with me. I just hope that I can make it just as awesome as Mish did.
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I caught a ride with Zand and his friend to our hotel in Baltimore. OMGSH it was so beautiful. A 1940's classic look with the 7th floor atrium being an exact replica of the penthouse suite from Hellsing OVA 3 (We seriously tried to take pictures up there but our Alucard forgot his Rio suit >_<).
We headed over to the convention center to get into that long line, but changed our minds quickly (line was way too long), so we decided to go around 10'ish. So later on, we headed back to our hotel to meet up with my boyfriend Jonnystarwind and change into our cosplay for the Dracula shoot later on that night and for the dinner at the cheesecake factory with the rest of the gang. . . no one was there, instead they went to Johnny Rockets. So, after eating with the gang there, my group went to the Dracula shoot, and instead of taking pics, we ended up scaring this cute little 11 year old boy (who for some reason kept coming back and messing with us). Afterwards and several tries *lol*, he gave me a hug and ran off with his older cousin. We all then headed to the convention and got our badges. As soon as we got back to the hotel and hung out for a few hours with my friends from NY until 2am. I then had to paint "many-man" in Kanji on Jonnystarwind's pink boxers for his boxer's Pip. It was sweet.
Friday
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The Hellsing photoshoot was awesome! Everyone loved his boxers Pip, and I got to meet some new friends and be re-united by my old ones. The dealer's room was bigger than I remember from last year (I could be wrong). I looked around for Happy Japan, my favorite Japanese kitchenware booth for minutes until Jonny finally pointed it out to me which made me happy. I ended up buying a pancake maker shaped like Hello Kitty and some vegetable stencils.
Later on in the evening, we went to the Dub Actors after dark Panel...woah. Who knew that they could be so vulgar? It was uncomfortably great! After the panel, instead of going to the Rave, we headed back to our hotel and ordered out... bad idea ordering from ... Well I forgot the name of the place, but the delivery boy was very rude to me about where I was, why I didn't come down to get our food, etc. Turns out he was at the wrong hotel; yeah... we were not happy. But we got our food and watched Edward Scissorhands.
Saturday
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Longest day ever. Jonny and I woke up around 8 and got ready quickly to head to the convention around 9am to wait in line for Crispin Freeman who was going to be spending the day at the convention. Well, turned out that the convention let people in an hour early (8am), and they were already in line. So we all had to wait in the overflow until 1:15. Wasn't exactly something I was expecting, but after 4 hours, I finally got to meet him. He was very nice, and wrote "yes...my master" on my mini-poster and read it aloud in the voice of Alucard; I was dressed as Integral. My face went completely red, and out of emberassment, I thanked him and quickly left the room. I ran into Tigress and Fijicard and we all freaked out like fangirls. What made me sad though was the fact that Jonny couldn't get his because he had to pick either Mary Elizabeth, or Crispin and couldn't get back into the line because of some dumb rule they had.
After going back to the hotel room to change into Chii, I decided to just hang out and take some pictures of the Hellsing photoshoot. I ended up missing the whole thing because my blood sugar fell dangerously low. So I went to get something to eat. I luckilly did make it to the second Hellsing photoshoot dressed as Seras, and hung out with Andrew, Frank, Irenthel and Tigress for most of the night. Sadly, Jonny had to run a panel. So, we sat in on the Hellsing Ulimate Panel of Ultimateness...omg it was the funniest thing ever. Mish was really live that night. I think it was the alc-SPRITE!...Yes, it was the Sprite *lol*. Luckilly, Jonny finally joined me, and we finished sitting in the panel and took some pictures. Afterwards, Jonny, Frank, Irenthel, Tigress and I hung out in the con's lobby until 2am. Then Jonny and I went back to the hotel room to work on my algebra quiz that had to be due before 3am...I got an A on it thank God.
Sunday
*******
We packed our things up, and put them in the check room of our hotel...believe it or not there were only 4 groups of suitcases from other people, so it wasn't a long wait at all. Headed to the convention and raiding the dealer's room for hours. I got some Lucky Star figurines, some stuff for my bento, and some cute EGL earrings. After that, we headed upstairs to hang out with Tigress, Irenthel, Andrew, and Frank and said our goodbyes.
So in retrospect...this convention was awesome. Absolutely awesome. I miss it already and can't wait to do it again next year. Speaking of, I now get to host the hellisng panel next year. Pretty much everything is done and planned out, even the people who are going to be working with me. I just hope that I can make it just as awesome as Mish did.