FWA 2010 Con Report
Friday - Got to the hotel around midnight and headed to the dances to get the room key from Duncan where I met keeyakitsune (or as sunfirelion likes to call him alter boi #1 in the church of Duncan). Headed up to the room to grab a shower and then back down to the con level. I couldn't get into the dances w/o a con badge so me & Duncan headed over to the game preserve (a room for fursuiters & anyone else to play in) and met Tzup , he was on all 4's checking out my husky slippers (silly wolf), the slippers unsurprisingly generated a ton of positive comments over the weekend. Myself & Duncan went to bed quite late and as such he didn't turn on the lights so as to avoid waking anyone. Friday morning when he & Sunfire woke up they noticed bodily fluids from the previous occupants of the room in their bed. It was obvious the beds had not been serviced properly as the fluids were on the bottom sheet and the top sheet so there's no way in hell that they were washed and magically paired back together. Noticed the AC was broke (in a room with 4 fursuiters this is not good). Went to registration around 9 and registered for the God-Level membership. If you have never purchased a God-Level membership at FWA you should, you definitely get your moneys worth. For $180 you get admission ($40), a con shirt ($20), a $50 dinner at Fogo de Chao with the GOH's (AKA the meat faucet) this place is essentially a meat buffet where the servers keep bringing met by until you beg for mercy (transportation to the dinner provided by Furbus www.furbus.com), a God-Level gift which this year was a Hansa Fox ($60), and access to Mt. Olympus the God Level con suite which has real food and gourmet junk food as opposed to the regular con suite. Spent the day hanging out with Duncan & Sunfire then around 8 my room mates for Friday & Saturday nights got in and I moved all my stuff to their room, then it was time for the dances during which I did my usual glow stringing stuff. I had a bit of a crowd around me at times taking pix, wheeee. After the dances I wandered around aimlessly with Duncan for a bit then headed up to bed only to find there were already 6 in the room (1 more than I agreed to) and I didn't have a bed spot, which I was assured I'd have by the person who organized the room share 2 days before leaving for the con (after he said he wouldn't be able to promise space). If he had kept it at his original statement of not being able to promise a bed instead of flipping back n forth I would have had no issue with it.
Saturday - Woke up at 8 to the sound of noisy, laughing room mates who were completely unconcerned that I was trying to sleep, talk about lack of room share etiquette, and headed to Mt Olympus for breakfast then down to the con to find Duncan. Pretty much just hung out all day with him & Sunfire. Got some footage of the parade then later, around 10 minutes before his turn in the fursuit dance competition skroy came up to Duncan and was all nervous and such. I told him to relax and he'd be awesome, he took 1st place :). I went to the Dances to do my usual thing. Around 10 minutes after I started stringing I had a good crowd around me taking pix and someone shouted "goooo wolf!". A bit later Keeya snagged me from the dance because some asshole popped a balloon Duncan was sitting on and he fell on his back pretty hard. He had Sunfire take him back to the room and a while later he came to the dances. I asked if he was OK and he said he was. Keeya dropped by before going to bed and asked me how he was doing, I said if he was hurting he wasn't saying so or showing it. At some point I gathered the courage to dance with Duncan for a bit, I kinda owed it to him as he was rather upset when he asked me to at RMFC & I said no. After the dances I wandered around aimlessly with Duncan then headed up to bed. About 5 minutes into my shower I got a knock on the bathroom door because they needed to retrieve towels to clean up vomit. One of the room mates had drank for the first time and way overdid it, on the bright side maybe it will turn him off to the very concept of drinking. I spent the next 2 hours listening to the sounds of him making offerings to the porcelain gods.
Sunday - Woke up and couldn't get my stuff moved back to rukario71 , Sunfire, & Duncan's room fast enough. The room mates in the room I just moved my stuff out of packed their car up and were planning to spend the last night at a motel 6 to save money and were supposed to be back after they got their stuff moved, never saw them again. Spent the day with Duncan and took a nap from 1-5:30 to make up for lost sleep the night before. I missed 2 panels I wanted to go to as a result. Later in the evening t-h-squirrel took out a massive balloon he had and Duncan inflated it and spent a couple hours balancing it on his head and having fun with it. Spent most of the evening (during the dances) copying vids of the con from Duncan's camera to my laptop. After the dances I did the usual wandering with Duncan and we got back to the room around 7:30.
Monday - Duncan decided to stay an extra day so Monday afternoon we went to the Marriot which Sunfire calls the perfect suicide hotel. (pics & vids to be added here...eventually). And went over to the mall for dinner. Went back to the Marriot and found some really comfy seats to sit in & hang out for a bit. While I was looking up at all 47 floors of vertical space I jokingly said this would be the perfect hotel for "Tumbles the Suicidal Stairs Dragon".
Tuesday - Packed our bags and then called for a cart. The bell person was extremely rude and impatient. While Duncan & Sunfire were loading the car I accidentally locked myself out of the room. Security was rude and less than helpful and refused to let us back in as Duncan had left some meds in the bathroom and I needed to get a bag of food for my trip back. When they left the parking garage they were charged for 5 days of parking despite Duncan having paid for the first 4 days already.
Summary - The con was great, well run & executed. The hotel on the other paw I'd give a -20 star rating. I could have gotten better service at a motel 6. Seriously, for a 5 star hotel to have rude staff and bodily fluids in the beds from previous occupants as well as broken AC it is simply inexcusable. All I can say is FUCK YOU ATLANTA FILTHTON!!!!!! The Friday/Saturday room share was a complete disaster. I forgot to give him the money when I got there and he forgot to ask, I am seriously considering telling him to go fuck himself & not pay a dime.
Journal will probably be edited as I remember other details I cant think of ATM.
Saturday - Woke up at 8 to the sound of noisy, laughing room mates who were completely unconcerned that I was trying to sleep, talk about lack of room share etiquette, and headed to Mt Olympus for breakfast then down to the con to find Duncan. Pretty much just hung out all day with him & Sunfire. Got some footage of the parade then later, around 10 minutes before his turn in the fursuit dance competition skroy came up to Duncan and was all nervous and such. I told him to relax and he'd be awesome, he took 1st place :). I went to the Dances to do my usual thing. Around 10 minutes after I started stringing I had a good crowd around me taking pix and someone shouted "goooo wolf!". A bit later Keeya snagged me from the dance because some asshole popped a balloon Duncan was sitting on and he fell on his back pretty hard. He had Sunfire take him back to the room and a while later he came to the dances. I asked if he was OK and he said he was. Keeya dropped by before going to bed and asked me how he was doing, I said if he was hurting he wasn't saying so or showing it. At some point I gathered the courage to dance with Duncan for a bit, I kinda owed it to him as he was rather upset when he asked me to at RMFC & I said no. After the dances I wandered around aimlessly with Duncan then headed up to bed. About 5 minutes into my shower I got a knock on the bathroom door because they needed to retrieve towels to clean up vomit. One of the room mates had drank for the first time and way overdid it, on the bright side maybe it will turn him off to the very concept of drinking. I spent the next 2 hours listening to the sounds of him making offerings to the porcelain gods.
Sunday - Woke up and couldn't get my stuff moved back to rukario71 , Sunfire, & Duncan's room fast enough. The room mates in the room I just moved my stuff out of packed their car up and were planning to spend the last night at a motel 6 to save money and were supposed to be back after they got their stuff moved, never saw them again. Spent the day with Duncan and took a nap from 1-5:30 to make up for lost sleep the night before. I missed 2 panels I wanted to go to as a result. Later in the evening t-h-squirrel took out a massive balloon he had and Duncan inflated it and spent a couple hours balancing it on his head and having fun with it. Spent most of the evening (during the dances) copying vids of the con from Duncan's camera to my laptop. After the dances I did the usual wandering with Duncan and we got back to the room around 7:30.
Monday - Duncan decided to stay an extra day so Monday afternoon we went to the Marriot which Sunfire calls the perfect suicide hotel. (pics & vids to be added here...eventually). And went over to the mall for dinner. Went back to the Marriot and found some really comfy seats to sit in & hang out for a bit. While I was looking up at all 47 floors of vertical space I jokingly said this would be the perfect hotel for "Tumbles the Suicidal Stairs Dragon".
Tuesday - Packed our bags and then called for a cart. The bell person was extremely rude and impatient. While Duncan & Sunfire were loading the car I accidentally locked myself out of the room. Security was rude and less than helpful and refused to let us back in as Duncan had left some meds in the bathroom and I needed to get a bag of food for my trip back. When they left the parking garage they were charged for 5 days of parking despite Duncan having paid for the first 4 days already.
Summary - The con was great, well run & executed. The hotel on the other paw I'd give a -20 star rating. I could have gotten better service at a motel 6. Seriously, for a 5 star hotel to have rude staff and bodily fluids in the beds from previous occupants as well as broken AC it is simply inexcusable. All I can say is FUCK YOU ATLANTA FILTHTON!!!!!! The Friday/Saturday room share was a complete disaster. I forgot to give him the money when I got there and he forgot to ask, I am seriously considering telling him to go fuck himself & not pay a dime.
Journal will probably be edited as I remember other details I cant think of ATM.