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My Furrydelphia Vacation
2 years ago
My 1st trip to the states was a success with Furrydelphia! 10 years ago, this would be unheard of as I had awful luck travelling at the time wrt anxiety making me sick and ruin the trip, but as I matured and slowly build up travel experience in the years after, I've gotten more confident, especially after Toronto FanExpo 2019. I haven't even flown in over a decade, but got through the flights just fine. I've had some luck on my flights to Philly as the layover in Montreal looked to be not enough time to go through customs, only for that flight to be delayed another 20 minutes in my favour. Airports have a lot of good dining options these days, at least the ones I've been to.
Which brings me to one of the highlights of my trip: The food. Tried out a Philly Cheesesteak through the hotel's restaurant on the first night which was satisfying, and it even has several other options to come back to. Its brunch buffet was nice, but tried out the nearby Sabrina's Cafe one day, a diner with a great brunch menu which I'm a sucker for, and a Pizzeria Vetri with the shrooms pizza. Disappointed that the Slurpee machine at the nearby 7/11 was out of order though. Could've picked a better day to eat out at nearby places than a scorcher of a Saturday, but I took that opportunity to get some pics of JFK Plaza and the LOVE statue anyway. I'm aware that the statue is not unique to Philly, but maybe it should say 'THPS' instead. There wasn't even the secret tape on a wire above the fountain smh.
As for the con itself, I got some great stuff at the Dealers Den, such as a Dragons NFC wristband by F-Class which goes to my LinkTree when tapped by phone, a digital commission coming up by whingesart, and a digital name tag that I've recently got the Spyro 2 dialog font to work on via BMPBadge. I've been to the dragons/scalies meet-up and pro wrestling furries panels, the former led by the same guy as the one in FE and the latter of which got me to meet 2 new mutuals, ThrasherDaBully (who ran the panel) and themadyokai. On the gaming area, I tried out the demo for the upcoming Toxic Crusaders beat-em-up which felt pretty solid enough even in post-Streets of Rage 4. I was also able to meet one of my mutuals there, and cross that out of my con checklist, in ThraxDerg.
However, now that I've gotten home, I got my job to worry about. Specifically, wondering where I'll end up once the contract's over soon, given my skillset there differs from what I learned in college years ago now. Looking forward to that con the last few months made for a good distraction, but now I'll have to deal with this before thinking about future cons. I'm most likely going to FE again and next year's FD would be early August, which is great for me as I wouldn't have to miss my town's pride events that goes on at the end of that month again. Depending on what happens, I may just aim higher and try for the big one in AC, but that's tentative atm.
Which brings me to one of the highlights of my trip: The food. Tried out a Philly Cheesesteak through the hotel's restaurant on the first night which was satisfying, and it even has several other options to come back to. Its brunch buffet was nice, but tried out the nearby Sabrina's Cafe one day, a diner with a great brunch menu which I'm a sucker for, and a Pizzeria Vetri with the shrooms pizza. Disappointed that the Slurpee machine at the nearby 7/11 was out of order though. Could've picked a better day to eat out at nearby places than a scorcher of a Saturday, but I took that opportunity to get some pics of JFK Plaza and the LOVE statue anyway. I'm aware that the statue is not unique to Philly, but maybe it should say 'THPS' instead. There wasn't even the secret tape on a wire above the fountain smh.
As for the con itself, I got some great stuff at the Dealers Den, such as a Dragons NFC wristband by F-Class which goes to my LinkTree when tapped by phone, a digital commission coming up by whingesart, and a digital name tag that I've recently got the Spyro 2 dialog font to work on via BMPBadge. I've been to the dragons/scalies meet-up and pro wrestling furries panels, the former led by the same guy as the one in FE and the latter of which got me to meet 2 new mutuals, ThrasherDaBully (who ran the panel) and themadyokai. On the gaming area, I tried out the demo for the upcoming Toxic Crusaders beat-em-up which felt pretty solid enough even in post-Streets of Rage 4. I was also able to meet one of my mutuals there, and cross that out of my con checklist, in ThraxDerg.
However, now that I've gotten home, I got my job to worry about. Specifically, wondering where I'll end up once the contract's over soon, given my skillset there differs from what I learned in college years ago now. Looking forward to that con the last few months made for a good distraction, but now I'll have to deal with this before thinking about future cons. I'm most likely going to FE again and next year's FD would be early August, which is great for me as I wouldn't have to miss my town's pride events that goes on at the end of that month again. Depending on what happens, I may just aim higher and try for the big one in AC, but that's tentative atm.
