Dargons!?
So Dragon*con was awesome.
Thursday:
Got to the hotel at about 4:45, met up with Russell, Kate and Carlos, dropped my stuff in the room and ran down to the Sheraton to get my badge. Got there at 5 ... didn't get out till 9 @_@. I'm seriously putting some thought into getting an eternal badge for the quicker line process and the fact prices are still going up. After that we paid for the room and hung out in the lobby for a while where some people were actually in costume which I thought was mostly unnecessary but still kind of cool.
Friday:
Woke up early and me, Carlos, Russell, Kate, Chris, and some of their friends went to breakfast at Metro Cafe which was nice. Afterward I got showered and went on my panel hunt. I went to see Bill Corbett, Eureka, Quantum Leap, some Akira thing and then a MST3K movie showing they had that night. In between those I wandered through the gaming area, the con suite, and the dealers rooms.
Saturday:
Got up kind of later than I wanted so I couldn't get a very good spot to watch the parade, but I managed to get in some good pictures. After that I went wandering waiting for the Jim Butcher signing ... which I should have gotten in line for earlier apparently because it literally went around the inside of the hotel and got cut off so no one else could go in. Unfortunately that was the only signing he was doing this weekend so I missed that :( I didn't get to many panels Saturday, most of the time I was moving through the hotels just looking for cosplayers and random panels. I ended the day in the anime panel room. There was a good FUNimation panel and a "crazy stuff on the internet" panel that lasted till 3am.
Sunday:
I got to some panels: Warehouse 13, Brandon Routh, and Stan Lee! Stan Lee was great, he was funny and answered the worst questions as best as anyone can. He pretty much put to rest every geek question of "Who would win in a fight between ___ and ___" basically he said it all depended on who was writing the story that day lol. Couldn't go to the Futurama panel cause the line was too long and it got cut off. Later on I went to watch the masquerade in a room one of the guys from the 300 group had. I was only a friend of Russell and Carlos but they were all very welcoming and that was cool. It was a night of drinking, yelling at bad costumes, and finally ending down in the lobby for more drinking and picture taking XD
Monday:
Woke up with a headache >_> Then we packed up and brought everything downstairs so we could check out. I managed to buy my ticket for next year and get some souvenirs for my friends. Around 3 I left for the airport for my eventful trip home. I say eventful because the weather was pretty bad over Ft. Laud airport so we were circling for about an hour and almost had to go to Miami. I had planned on getting back in time to go to my Monday game at The Lair, which I would have made but we all decided to go to the Cinema Paradiso cause they were showing Monty Python and the Holy Grail for $1.
All in all it was a good weekend and I can't wait for next year. And if anyone other than me actually still reads this here's the pictures.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v432/Bukimi/Dragoncon10/
Thursday:
Got to the hotel at about 4:45, met up with Russell, Kate and Carlos, dropped my stuff in the room and ran down to the Sheraton to get my badge. Got there at 5 ... didn't get out till 9 @_@. I'm seriously putting some thought into getting an eternal badge for the quicker line process and the fact prices are still going up. After that we paid for the room and hung out in the lobby for a while where some people were actually in costume which I thought was mostly unnecessary but still kind of cool.
Friday:
Woke up early and me, Carlos, Russell, Kate, Chris, and some of their friends went to breakfast at Metro Cafe which was nice. Afterward I got showered and went on my panel hunt. I went to see Bill Corbett, Eureka, Quantum Leap, some Akira thing and then a MST3K movie showing they had that night. In between those I wandered through the gaming area, the con suite, and the dealers rooms.
Saturday:
Got up kind of later than I wanted so I couldn't get a very good spot to watch the parade, but I managed to get in some good pictures. After that I went wandering waiting for the Jim Butcher signing ... which I should have gotten in line for earlier apparently because it literally went around the inside of the hotel and got cut off so no one else could go in. Unfortunately that was the only signing he was doing this weekend so I missed that :( I didn't get to many panels Saturday, most of the time I was moving through the hotels just looking for cosplayers and random panels. I ended the day in the anime panel room. There was a good FUNimation panel and a "crazy stuff on the internet" panel that lasted till 3am.
Sunday:
I got to some panels: Warehouse 13, Brandon Routh, and Stan Lee! Stan Lee was great, he was funny and answered the worst questions as best as anyone can. He pretty much put to rest every geek question of "Who would win in a fight between ___ and ___" basically he said it all depended on who was writing the story that day lol. Couldn't go to the Futurama panel cause the line was too long and it got cut off. Later on I went to watch the masquerade in a room one of the guys from the 300 group had. I was only a friend of Russell and Carlos but they were all very welcoming and that was cool. It was a night of drinking, yelling at bad costumes, and finally ending down in the lobby for more drinking and picture taking XD
Monday:
Woke up with a headache >_> Then we packed up and brought everything downstairs so we could check out. I managed to buy my ticket for next year and get some souvenirs for my friends. Around 3 I left for the airport for my eventful trip home. I say eventful because the weather was pretty bad over Ft. Laud airport so we were circling for about an hour and almost had to go to Miami. I had planned on getting back in time to go to my Monday game at The Lair, which I would have made but we all decided to go to the Cinema Paradiso cause they were showing Monty Python and the Holy Grail for $1.
All in all it was a good weekend and I can't wait for next year. And if anyone other than me actually still reads this here's the pictures.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v432/Bukimi/Dragoncon10/