I bring better pictures this time~
So, fuck livejournal and its auto-save drafts because I doesn't work and now I get to type this all over again -_-;
Thankfully I hadn't yet done a recap of Fanime, but... with my luck Firefox will crash again on me now that I'm about to start. So, let's do this by day, starting with
Thursday: Was a very busy day. Aside from packing and needing to get my hair dyed and trimmed it was also the day of my end of the year banquet with the tennis team. And I had the bright idea to make balloon bulldogs for each of the team members, so I had to do that too. I was up really early stressing about having to finish that and finish packing. I left the house with Carlie (rebeanelle ) a little after 11am and threw all my packed stuff for Fanime in her car (the one we were gonna take). We went back to her house and she dyed and trimmed my hair for me and got her hair dyed by her mom. We hung out for a little while and talked and got out last things together, and then Zac Khary (artfulloser ) came to pick me up and we drove back to my house. Hung out there for a little while, I think we watched some of the French Open on TV. Packed the garbage bags full of balloon bulldogs into his little car and left for the banquet at around 6pm. We got there right on time, sat and ate pizza with my team, Khary and Kristen. I gave everyone their bulldogs and they loved it, and my coach got a little balloon person with a hat and tennis racket. And I got a little box with candy and candles from one of the girls, and a huge tennis ball from coach (as did everyone else). The last part of dinner turned into a yearbook session with everyone signing each other's giant tennis ball.
After dinner (which someone never showed up to I'm looking at you Carlie) Khary and I went back to Carlie's house to meet up with Carlie and her boyfriend Steven. It was already about 8 or 8:30pm and we wanted to get up super early the next day to leave, so we actually figured out where everyone was sleeping and almost immediately went to sleep. Or at least bed, since I know I for one slept like shit. I was so anxious and sleeping in someone elses' bed so it was very hard to sleep. At most I got five hours.
Friday: Barely. We got up at 2:30am, and Carlie made chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast since it was her birthday. The guys both took a shower to wake up, but Carlie and I had late the day before so as soon as we were done eating we packed the last of our things in the car and took off. It was an uneventful ride, but we listened to music the whole way and talked about what was gonna happen when we got there since neither of the guys had ever been. We got there in about three and a half hours, which was pretty good since we didn't use the GPS. I know that area so well by now you'd think I lived there. We parked at the HP Pavilion for $5 since our hotel wouldn't be available until 3pm and then walked the four-ish blocks to the convention center. When we arrived we got our badges and waited for Steven who had to go through the longer line, and then we were going to go to Hydration for lunch but it wasn't open yet so we went to McDonalds. We were gonna meet up with Ari (norcalsanjifan ) and Trisha but we ended up getting messaged by Yoshiko (yoshikochan ) so we went back to the convention and then all met up in a huge group and walked to Hydration together. I felt so out of place 'cause everyone else was cosplaying PoT but I had to wait until we got our hotel at 3pm T^T We ate lunch, and then headed back to Yoshiko's room and hung out there for a while until the others went to get the car and get checked in to our room. I went with the rest of the group to get something to eat (though I wasn't hungry, just tagging along) and waited for the rest of them to figure out the hotel before I walked back to the hotel with one of the girls and went up to our room on the 22nd floor to get changed. I was Shishido first, wore my hat and helped Khary get changed into his outfit too. Don't think I have any pictures of me as Shishido though D: After that we went back down to the con and wandered around Artist Alley before meeting back up with Ari and Trisha and kinda just hanging out for awhile before ending up back in my hotel room to fix wigs and binding and stuff before heading out to dinner. Trisha and I ended up switching and she wore my Shishido hat and I managed to get my brown contacts in and threw on my Hiyoshi wig, and we went out to a very busy burger place for dinner. At some point we also met Brandon but my brain kinda melded a lot of Friday together by now. All I remember is that at some point I bought a bunch of doujinshi off of Trisha, and then ended up walking around the swap meet and buying a bunch of stuff from Yoshiko too x3 And then we called it a night kinda early since I had been up since 2:30am.
Saturday: Got up fairly early, showered and dressed by like 11am. At some point the night before I had visited Melly's (na_kabaji_usu ) room too and got my Gakuto wig from her (♥ Thank you Melly~) and so I got Carlie to put the wig on but since she was so exhausted it didn't go so well >>; Still, I got it on my head and Khary and I went out for food.
That day we kinda wandered around a lot, walked around the Dealer's Hall and Artist Alley and hung out with a lot of cool people. Watched Trisha and Brandon do karaoke amazingly, though my ears had to bleed through a few people before that. Also met Chibi and a few others, and I did a costume change into Shishido before the PoT midnight meeting. Also while killing time before the meeting it turned into a massage fest in the hotel room, which was amusing. Then we headed out to the meetup and were slightly early anyway. Got lots of pictures taken of me, but I only have found one >> and I stole it from yablokomoloko .
Finally had my hair down for long-haired Shishido. All those months of growing out my hair finally had a purpose.
After we were done there we went downstairs and had a quiz thingy and made awesome paper cut-out PoT characters (I'll put up pictures of mine later) and hung out for awhile before splitting up. Went back to the karaoke room where Trisha sang again, this time by herself. Went up to the hotel room after to get stuff they had left and then called it a night.
Gonna split this into two or it will be too huge so >>; Hang in there for part two~
Thankfully I hadn't yet done a recap of Fanime, but... with my luck Firefox will crash again on me now that I'm about to start. So, let's do this by day, starting with
Thursday: Was a very busy day. Aside from packing and needing to get my hair dyed and trimmed it was also the day of my end of the year banquet with the tennis team. And I had the bright idea to make balloon bulldogs for each of the team members, so I had to do that too. I was up really early stressing about having to finish that and finish packing. I left the house with Carlie (rebeanelle ) a little after 11am and threw all my packed stuff for Fanime in her car (the one we were gonna take). We went back to her house and she dyed and trimmed my hair for me and got her hair dyed by her mom. We hung out for a little while and talked and got out last things together, and then Zac Khary (artfulloser ) came to pick me up and we drove back to my house. Hung out there for a little while, I think we watched some of the French Open on TV. Packed the garbage bags full of balloon bulldogs into his little car and left for the banquet at around 6pm. We got there right on time, sat and ate pizza with my team, Khary and Kristen. I gave everyone their bulldogs and they loved it, and my coach got a little balloon person with a hat and tennis racket. And I got a little box with candy and candles from one of the girls, and a huge tennis ball from coach (as did everyone else). The last part of dinner turned into a yearbook session with everyone signing each other's giant tennis ball.
After dinner (which someone never showed up to I'm looking at you Carlie) Khary and I went back to Carlie's house to meet up with Carlie and her boyfriend Steven. It was already about 8 or 8:30pm and we wanted to get up super early the next day to leave, so we actually figured out where everyone was sleeping and almost immediately went to sleep. Or at least bed, since I know I for one slept like shit. I was so anxious and sleeping in someone elses' bed so it was very hard to sleep. At most I got five hours.
Friday: Barely. We got up at 2:30am, and Carlie made chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast since it was her birthday. The guys both took a shower to wake up, but Carlie and I had late the day before so as soon as we were done eating we packed the last of our things in the car and took off. It was an uneventful ride, but we listened to music the whole way and talked about what was gonna happen when we got there since neither of the guys had ever been. We got there in about three and a half hours, which was pretty good since we didn't use the GPS. I know that area so well by now you'd think I lived there. We parked at the HP Pavilion for $5 since our hotel wouldn't be available until 3pm and then walked the four-ish blocks to the convention center. When we arrived we got our badges and waited for Steven who had to go through the longer line, and then we were going to go to Hydration for lunch but it wasn't open yet so we went to McDonalds. We were gonna meet up with Ari (norcalsanjifan ) and Trisha but we ended up getting messaged by Yoshiko (yoshikochan ) so we went back to the convention and then all met up in a huge group and walked to Hydration together. I felt so out of place 'cause everyone else was cosplaying PoT but I had to wait until we got our hotel at 3pm T^T We ate lunch, and then headed back to Yoshiko's room and hung out there for a while until the others went to get the car and get checked in to our room. I went with the rest of the group to get something to eat (though I wasn't hungry, just tagging along) and waited for the rest of them to figure out the hotel before I walked back to the hotel with one of the girls and went up to our room on the 22nd floor to get changed. I was Shishido first, wore my hat and helped Khary get changed into his outfit too. Don't think I have any pictures of me as Shishido though D: After that we went back down to the con and wandered around Artist Alley before meeting back up with Ari and Trisha and kinda just hanging out for awhile before ending up back in my hotel room to fix wigs and binding and stuff before heading out to dinner. Trisha and I ended up switching and she wore my Shishido hat and I managed to get my brown contacts in and threw on my Hiyoshi wig, and we went out to a very busy burger place for dinner. At some point we also met Brandon but my brain kinda melded a lot of Friday together by now. All I remember is that at some point I bought a bunch of doujinshi off of Trisha, and then ended up walking around the swap meet and buying a bunch of stuff from Yoshiko too x3 And then we called it a night kinda early since I had been up since 2:30am.
Saturday: Got up fairly early, showered and dressed by like 11am. At some point the night before I had visited Melly's (na_kabaji_usu ) room too and got my Gakuto wig from her (♥ Thank you Melly~) and so I got Carlie to put the wig on but since she was so exhausted it didn't go so well >>; Still, I got it on my head and Khary and I went out for food.
That day we kinda wandered around a lot, walked around the Dealer's Hall and Artist Alley and hung out with a lot of cool people. Watched Trisha and Brandon do karaoke amazingly, though my ears had to bleed through a few people before that. Also met Chibi and a few others, and I did a costume change into Shishido before the PoT midnight meeting. Also while killing time before the meeting it turned into a massage fest in the hotel room, which was amusing. Then we headed out to the meetup and were slightly early anyway. Got lots of pictures taken of me, but I only have found one >> and I stole it from yablokomoloko .
Finally had my hair down for long-haired Shishido. All those months of growing out my hair finally had a purpose.
After we were done there we went downstairs and had a quiz thingy and made awesome paper cut-out PoT characters (I'll put up pictures of mine later) and hung out for awhile before splitting up. Went back to the karaoke room where Trisha sang again, this time by herself. Went up to the hotel room after to get stuff they had left and then called it a night.
Gonna split this into two or it will be too huge so >>; Hang in there for part two~