Otakon and Birthday madness!!!!
Wow ok alot has been happening. First off, I'm 18 today! Yey. I'm happy my parents let me live this long lol. In about an hour I'm going to the state fair as a birthday present from my friend. My parents got me a sword which is really awesome looking. My brother, well I don't know if he got me anything because he's at work right now. Then again if he didn't then thats okay. I always play his video games and read his new manga. So it's all good. My oldest brother has his wife and bills to worry about. So I was happy enough with the phone call he gave me saying happy birthday and all. My grandma gave me $86. My other grandmother gave me $50. Not bad at all I must say.
Now to explain what I mean about busy. Well I don't know if anyone went this past weekend, but Otakon just passed. Its held in Baltimore, MD. I don't think I have ever seen that many people. Let me start with Thursday because that was the first day that we were down there. We left from Newton, NJ at around 9:30 in the morning. Let me tell you that was pretty rough getting up that early. Definately wasn't fun. But 6 of us packed into this one small van that someones dad borrowed. Believe me it was a little cramped but we managed it okay I guess. The trip to get to our hotel took about 4-5 hours. Of course we stopped about halfway to stretch. If anyone has ever been on a lon g road trip then you know the feeling. Anyway, we finally reached the hotel and found our rooms. They were pretty big too. I had to share with two other girls but it wasnt that bad. So we got situated and we wanted to go to the inner harbor where the event was being held. Since it was Thursday, you can pick up your passes the day before. So we took a shuttle that the hotel has and went to the light rail station. Its kind of like the subway but just above ground thats all. It took about 15-20 minutes to get from our stop to the convention center. So we get off the train and I think there are only two words to describe what the line looked like to get the passes.
Holy crap was all that came to mind. There had to be at least 5000 people online waiting for the pass pickup to begin. So we decided, umm we arent going to wait there. So we went on our way to find food. We walked about two blocks down where the docks were. That was where all the food places were. So we ate and decided we wanted to wait a little more to get our passes. So we went to the aquarium. Man that place was amazing. I think my favorite was the blue frogs. Those things were so cool looking. Of course the thing I like the most has to be the deadliest animal in the world. I laughed at that. So we spent about two hours there. It was a couple floors and a whole nother building that connected with a skywalk kind of thing. So at 7 we decided to see how bad the line was to get t6he passes early. It wasnt that bad and it moved suprisingly quick.
In about 20 minutes we were in the convention center which had another two lines that split off. I'm in my line and as we are walking around I think my heart stopped. Because I didnt want to get kicked out I didnt do anything but I really wanted to. He had to be the cutest little asian that I have ever seen. He looked my age too. *sigh* Oh well. We got our passes finally. I got the Saiyuki pass. They had a couple others but Saiyuki was my favorite out of the ones offered. We got back to the hotel and I knew we were gonna have to wake up early so I tried to go to sleep at 11. Wake up at 6. A good 7 hours of sleep right? Wrong. Kim and Jenn broke the rules be keeping Brandon in the room until 430 in the damn morning. Which means I didnt get to sleep until 430 in the morning. You can imagine how angry I was.
So that concludes what happened the first day we got to Baltimore for Otakon. This is alot so I think I'll explain each day by itself. So much happened that this would be chapters before I would be done. And I'm running out of time. Gotta go celebrate.
Now to explain what I mean about busy. Well I don't know if anyone went this past weekend, but Otakon just passed. Its held in Baltimore, MD. I don't think I have ever seen that many people. Let me start with Thursday because that was the first day that we were down there. We left from Newton, NJ at around 9:30 in the morning. Let me tell you that was pretty rough getting up that early. Definately wasn't fun. But 6 of us packed into this one small van that someones dad borrowed. Believe me it was a little cramped but we managed it okay I guess. The trip to get to our hotel took about 4-5 hours. Of course we stopped about halfway to stretch. If anyone has ever been on a lon g road trip then you know the feeling. Anyway, we finally reached the hotel and found our rooms. They were pretty big too. I had to share with two other girls but it wasnt that bad. So we got situated and we wanted to go to the inner harbor where the event was being held. Since it was Thursday, you can pick up your passes the day before. So we took a shuttle that the hotel has and went to the light rail station. Its kind of like the subway but just above ground thats all. It took about 15-20 minutes to get from our stop to the convention center. So we get off the train and I think there are only two words to describe what the line looked like to get the passes.
Holy crap was all that came to mind. There had to be at least 5000 people online waiting for the pass pickup to begin. So we decided, umm we arent going to wait there. So we went on our way to find food. We walked about two blocks down where the docks were. That was where all the food places were. So we ate and decided we wanted to wait a little more to get our passes. So we went to the aquarium. Man that place was amazing. I think my favorite was the blue frogs. Those things were so cool looking. Of course the thing I like the most has to be the deadliest animal in the world. I laughed at that. So we spent about two hours there. It was a couple floors and a whole nother building that connected with a skywalk kind of thing. So at 7 we decided to see how bad the line was to get t6he passes early. It wasnt that bad and it moved suprisingly quick.
In about 20 minutes we were in the convention center which had another two lines that split off. I'm in my line and as we are walking around I think my heart stopped. Because I didnt want to get kicked out I didnt do anything but I really wanted to. He had to be the cutest little asian that I have ever seen. He looked my age too. *sigh* Oh well. We got our passes finally. I got the Saiyuki pass. They had a couple others but Saiyuki was my favorite out of the ones offered. We got back to the hotel and I knew we were gonna have to wake up early so I tried to go to sleep at 11. Wake up at 6. A good 7 hours of sleep right? Wrong. Kim and Jenn broke the rules be keeping Brandon in the room until 430 in the damn morning. Which means I didnt get to sleep until 430 in the morning. You can imagine how angry I was.
So that concludes what happened the first day we got to Baltimore for Otakon. This is alot so I think I'll explain each day by itself. So much happened that this would be chapters before I would be done. And I'm running out of time. Gotta go celebrate.