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Toronto trip is a big success
2 years ago
Last weekend was a blast! Not only did I go to my 1st real fur con in Furnal Equinox, but I was able to go to a Raptors game that Saturday night!
It was almost exactly 3 years ago that I got screwed out of seeing my 1st Raps game because it was originally scheduled about a week after lockdown would start. It wasn't just any game either, that was against the Grizzlies and both teams would wear their 90s throwbacks (with Memphis even using the original Vancouver branding) for both franchises' 25th anniversary, with the court design to match. The game I saw was a fun one, against Minnesota, though the 3rd quarter was a slog with constant bad fouls.
As for the con itself, it got to a rough start on Friday what with checking in, finding my way around, and being introduced to elevator con. Saturday though was very productive. The hotel brunch was great and not chaotic like I thought it would be, I commissioned not 1 but 2 con badge commissions (the 1st being the one I just posted here and the other one is in progress and would revolve around my Twitch channel), and tried out the scalie meet-up event, all before the Raptors game that night. Sunday was buying some extra trinkets, played CAH at the gaming lounge, then going to the closing ceremonies. A bit unlucky that TFF was going on as well and that's where most of my mutuals went though.
I said this is my first real one because the last one I went to was CanFURence 2016 but it was fairly small and cramped with little to do and I was also not in the right frame of mind at the time. Now though, I'm definitely going this year and at the very least make more use of my badges. Maybe it grew in size since then as 2016 was that con's inaugural year apparently. Maybe I'll try a more major con in the US down the line, but I rather plan and coordinate with a group I know are going for that. I've never vacationed outside of Canada before.
Now I got this whole week off since I had plenty of spare vacation hours and I'd like to relax then just in case of con crud or if it didn't go well.
It was almost exactly 3 years ago that I got screwed out of seeing my 1st Raps game because it was originally scheduled about a week after lockdown would start. It wasn't just any game either, that was against the Grizzlies and both teams would wear their 90s throwbacks (with Memphis even using the original Vancouver branding) for both franchises' 25th anniversary, with the court design to match. The game I saw was a fun one, against Minnesota, though the 3rd quarter was a slog with constant bad fouls.
As for the con itself, it got to a rough start on Friday what with checking in, finding my way around, and being introduced to elevator con. Saturday though was very productive. The hotel brunch was great and not chaotic like I thought it would be, I commissioned not 1 but 2 con badge commissions (the 1st being the one I just posted here and the other one is in progress and would revolve around my Twitch channel), and tried out the scalie meet-up event, all before the Raptors game that night. Sunday was buying some extra trinkets, played CAH at the gaming lounge, then going to the closing ceremonies. A bit unlucky that TFF was going on as well and that's where most of my mutuals went though.
I said this is my first real one because the last one I went to was CanFURence 2016 but it was fairly small and cramped with little to do and I was also not in the right frame of mind at the time. Now though, I'm definitely going this year and at the very least make more use of my badges. Maybe it grew in size since then as 2016 was that con's inaugural year apparently. Maybe I'll try a more major con in the US down the line, but I rather plan and coordinate with a group I know are going for that. I've never vacationed outside of Canada before.
Now I got this whole week off since I had plenty of spare vacation hours and I'd like to relax then just in case of con crud or if it didn't go well.
