Subject: Another extended weekend with you and 50,000 of your geekiest friends...

[kirinn]

In other words, it's time for the big Dragon*Con post. This will be long, so I'll both lj-cut it and emboldenify various topics so people can skim for good bits if they're so inclined. Also note that akiko and I only overlapped in about 50% of our activities, so there will be plenty of different things in my long-ass post and hers.

Comments

[david_f_smith]

Aha, so you had the Potted Parrot? Nicely done. Vic's is the one reason I regret not going to the whole fiasco.

DFS.

[kirinn]

Yeah, the Potted Parrot was tasty. I also had a Tahitian Mudslide, which seems to involve very whipped-up ice cream.

And Dragon*Con is fun! ;) As long as you can stomach teeming hordes of people. Which, slightly surprisingly, even akiko manages for the whole weekend. It helps that they're all geeks, and even more-so that the age range skews decidedly higher than your average anime con.

[akiko]

I like people! What are you talking about? ESFJ, remember?

I just hate navigating hordes by myself. And I hate annoying people. But there's just something about being surrounded by nerds and feeling free to be a big old nerd.

[akiko]

I went with the liquid pineapple and a white cloud. :9

[david_f_smith]

The liquid pineapple doesn't appear to be listed on the Seattle menu I have. Sounds yummy, though. So did nobody try the Samoan Fog Cutter this year?

DFS.

[akiko]

I'm not sure that's it's name, though it did taste like liquefied pineapple. Pino Pepe maybe? It was tasty.

It was only 4 of us at dinner, and Chris doesn't drink.

[david_f_smith]

Chris is a great big sissy. You should have fed him a couple of Queen's Park Swizzles, that would have brought him around.

DFS.

[david_f_smith]

Also, if you want another Pino Pepe, here's the recipe from the Trader Vic's Gourmet website.

--Piño Pepe
1 dash Trader Vic's Rock Candy Syrup
Juice of 1/2 lime
1/4 oz. lemon juice
2 oz. unsweetened pineapple juice
1/2 oz. Triple Sec
1 oz. vodka
1 oz. light Puerto Rican rum
Blend in electric mixer with 1 scoop shaved ice. Pour into hollowed-out fresh baby pineapple or ceramic version. Add ice cubes. Serve with straws.

DFS.