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15 years ago
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TL;DR Version: This shit was amazing. Everyone was awesome! Hoping I can go again next year!
Well FC has come and gone and it was awesome!
I roomed with
DJwolf, 
Tigon and 
bloodwiser this year and all three made the con so enjoyable. Thanks guys for making this the most memorable con yet!
Anyway onto the con report!
Thursday:
Flew out of Minneapolis around 9 in the morning and arrived in San Jose around noon local time. Was met by DJ,
trakefur and 
valthonis at baggage claim and after waiting forever for Delta to unload the plane we grabbed my luggage and journeyed off to take public transit to the hotel. After accidentally grabbing the wrong bus we eventually made it to the Fairmont where I dropped off my luggage and proceeded to grab a late lunch with Val at Pita Pit (The buffalo chicken pita is amazing <3 ). Spent the rest of the night just kind of letting myself adjust to being in California. Handed out a few of the badges that I made for friends (which I will post sometime either today or tomorrow depending on how busy I am unpacking and such) and all in all acted lazy.
Friday:
Friday is all sorts of a blur to me. Ran into a lot of friends, met plenty of awesome new people. Spent a great deal of time in the dealer's den browsing my favorite artist's, chatting with a couple of them who I'm friends with, and picked up my awesome new badge from
mongooseink (Which can be found here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4458032/ and I love it so much <3 <3 ). Enjoyed the fursuit dance competition. Lots of awesome performances and really great song choices for dances. Got to hang out with 
mrk-9 for a good while and listened to him tell some amazing stories that almost had me suffocating I was laughing too much. I also met 
wolfblade and 
gtskunkrat at the same time since they arrived shortly after us to hang out with K-9 as well. Both of them seem like really awesome guys and I had a blast meeting them. Also, if you haven't tried the French bakery located in the south tower of the Fairmont you are missing out! I went there twice during the convention, once on Friday and once on Sunday. They have amazing food there. It's especially nice when it's sunny outside and you get to eat at the outside seating area.
Saturday:
Saturday was a bit more eventful. Woke up around 11 and ran into
canrexplay, Digi, and Ash. Rex had to run off to prep for the fursuit parade but me, Digi, and Ash went over to Gordon Biersch for lunch where I discovered this amazing little food item known as garlic french fries. We were joined by 
t-wolf, 
zatodragon and one other guy who I unfortunately did not catch the name of (Sorry dude! If you are reading this let me know so I can adjust it!). After the meal I had to run because I wanted to catch the fursuit parade. Surprisingly I found a nice spot right near the start of the parade route where I proceeded to listen to my ipod while the parade went past. (Florence and the machine <3 ) After the parade I had to rush to get to the Club Regent room for DJ's music tech panel where I ran the sound board keeping the volume at a steady level so it wasn't blasting out people's ears or being far to quiet. That was fun, even tossed in my own two cents to the topic of file formats. Other than that I did my normal dealer's den browsing. Meeting new friends, handing out more badges that I'd made, etc etc. Even stopped in at the dance for a bit but didn't dance. Just listened to the kick ass tunes that were being played.
Sunday:
Sunday was rather lax since it was the last full day of the con for me. I browsed the dealer's den and hung out with my friends. Went to the dance that night and just kind of wandered the hotel. Met a few more people such as
fluke as well.
Monday:
I left the hotel before noon and got to the airport. I ended up having to wait 3 hours though for my flight seeing as it got delayed. It ended up going by pretty quickly though since I ran into
atariotter and we grabbed some lunch at "The Brit" in terminal B. I finally got on my plane and took off around 2:30.
It really ended up being a great con overall. I didn't have really any of the problems that I'd had the previous two FC's which made it much easier to enjoy.
Other friends who made this con awesome:
lace 
damonhusky 
straydog 
reccasenli 
rottyboy 
navawolfe 
triggerfox 
jjmrpg04 
disasterdog (Your suit and Hazel's were amazing dude! Definitely some of my favorites from the con) 
domafox
I know there are lots more people that I met and had a great time with but my mind is shot lol. Just cause you aren't listed doesn't mean I didn't enjoy your company. Everyone made this con the best one that I've been to yet and I'm gonna miss every one of you. Here's hoping I can somehow work my financials so that I can get back out there next year for FC 2012!
TL;DR Version: This shit was amazing. Everyone was awesome! Hoping I can go again next year!
Well FC has come and gone and it was awesome!
I roomed with
DJwolf, 
Tigon and 
bloodwiser this year and all three made the con so enjoyable. Thanks guys for making this the most memorable con yet!Anyway onto the con report!
Thursday:
Flew out of Minneapolis around 9 in the morning and arrived in San Jose around noon local time. Was met by DJ,
trakefur and 
valthonis at baggage claim and after waiting forever for Delta to unload the plane we grabbed my luggage and journeyed off to take public transit to the hotel. After accidentally grabbing the wrong bus we eventually made it to the Fairmont where I dropped off my luggage and proceeded to grab a late lunch with Val at Pita Pit (The buffalo chicken pita is amazing <3 ). Spent the rest of the night just kind of letting myself adjust to being in California. Handed out a few of the badges that I made for friends (which I will post sometime either today or tomorrow depending on how busy I am unpacking and such) and all in all acted lazy.Friday:
Friday is all sorts of a blur to me. Ran into a lot of friends, met plenty of awesome new people. Spent a great deal of time in the dealer's den browsing my favorite artist's, chatting with a couple of them who I'm friends with, and picked up my awesome new badge from
mongooseink (Which can be found here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4458032/ and I love it so much <3 <3 ). Enjoyed the fursuit dance competition. Lots of awesome performances and really great song choices for dances. Got to hang out with 
mrk-9 for a good while and listened to him tell some amazing stories that almost had me suffocating I was laughing too much. I also met 
wolfblade and 
gtskunkrat at the same time since they arrived shortly after us to hang out with K-9 as well. Both of them seem like really awesome guys and I had a blast meeting them. Also, if you haven't tried the French bakery located in the south tower of the Fairmont you are missing out! I went there twice during the convention, once on Friday and once on Sunday. They have amazing food there. It's especially nice when it's sunny outside and you get to eat at the outside seating area.Saturday:
Saturday was a bit more eventful. Woke up around 11 and ran into
canrexplay, Digi, and Ash. Rex had to run off to prep for the fursuit parade but me, Digi, and Ash went over to Gordon Biersch for lunch where I discovered this amazing little food item known as garlic french fries. We were joined by 
t-wolf, 
zatodragon and one other guy who I unfortunately did not catch the name of (Sorry dude! If you are reading this let me know so I can adjust it!). After the meal I had to run because I wanted to catch the fursuit parade. Surprisingly I found a nice spot right near the start of the parade route where I proceeded to listen to my ipod while the parade went past. (Florence and the machine <3 ) After the parade I had to rush to get to the Club Regent room for DJ's music tech panel where I ran the sound board keeping the volume at a steady level so it wasn't blasting out people's ears or being far to quiet. That was fun, even tossed in my own two cents to the topic of file formats. Other than that I did my normal dealer's den browsing. Meeting new friends, handing out more badges that I'd made, etc etc. Even stopped in at the dance for a bit but didn't dance. Just listened to the kick ass tunes that were being played.Sunday:
Sunday was rather lax since it was the last full day of the con for me. I browsed the dealer's den and hung out with my friends. Went to the dance that night and just kind of wandered the hotel. Met a few more people such as
fluke as well.Monday:
I left the hotel before noon and got to the airport. I ended up having to wait 3 hours though for my flight seeing as it got delayed. It ended up going by pretty quickly though since I ran into
atariotter and we grabbed some lunch at "The Brit" in terminal B. I finally got on my plane and took off around 2:30.It really ended up being a great con overall. I didn't have really any of the problems that I'd had the previous two FC's which made it much easier to enjoy.
Other friends who made this con awesome:
lace 
damonhusky 
straydog 
reccasenli 
rottyboy 
navawolfe 
triggerfox 
jjmrpg04 
disasterdog (Your suit and Hazel's were amazing dude! Definitely some of my favorites from the con) 
domafoxI know there are lots more people that I met and had a great time with but my mind is shot lol. Just cause you aren't listed doesn't mean I didn't enjoy your company. Everyone made this con the best one that I've been to yet and I'm gonna miss every one of you. Here's hoping I can somehow work my financials so that I can get back out there next year for FC 2012!
TL;DR Version: This shit was amazing. Everyone was awesome! Hoping I can go again next year!
Good to hear you had a blast kuya ^w^
And you got home safely :3