Furry Fiesta 2011
14 years ago
Well as promised I'll recap what happened at Furry Fiesta this weekend. Me and my hubby
ddraglaisdragon left out at after we both got off work Thursday arriving late in Dallas we made a quick stop at El Fenix for din din and stayed the night at
rekkie. Giving Sydney (Rekkie and Sairo's sweet German Sheppy) many loveins
dook came by for a visit and a little fursuit repair that Ddraglais was happy to help him make. Catching up on missed episodes of Glee and Raising Hope. Friday we got ourselves checked in and picked up our conbadges.
I was very eager to try on my Acroth partial suit for the first time. Opting to go out first without the sports coat (didn't want to get too over heated) I have to say going out suiting for the first time was a mixture of being a thrill and quite nervous.
syntheticjewel did a great job on the mask and arms only place I felt heat and sweat was just around the cheeks and the material on the arms surprisingly kept my arms cooler feeling. Overall I got quite alot of awesome comments. Picked up a awesome looking shiny red harness for Ddraglais at
Lagarto's
After making a quick run to Walmart me and Ddraglais went to Knockouts to get fancied up. Ddraglasis treating himself special with a mini facial x3 apparently they where filming a telemundo commercial or spot there and Ddraglais was the hunky star in the hot towel wrap XD. Grabbing a quick bite to eat at Hooters. After getting lost in Arlington on the look out for getting the ingredients to Ddraglais's magic libations (thank you Spike for pointing us in the right direction) we picked up our roommate
unshackledfenrir.
Saturday was spent wandering through out the con meeting new folks and old friends. I loved how the art auction was set up this year though it was a bit hard writing a bid on those perforated boards with out your pin poking through. May be next year they could have them on a clip board or denser paperstock for the bid sheets(missed the scritch and botch) Also dig the con suite and the corral thought it was very open and airy though was bummed out to learn someone broke in some time late Saturday and lifted many of the con's soda-pop. It was fun to suit in the parade I do hope if anyone took photos might they send me a pic please ^.=.^ I'd like to know what you thought and if any seasoned suiter had any recommendations or pointers. I jumped in at the charity auction in the ball room snagging me a 1st run copy of Watership Down I don't feel I paid to much it all went to a good cause to feed the tigers at CARE. I enjoyed the FNL variety show I knew it was a little rushed but over all quite enjoyable to see their takes on the 70's shows of Dallas and All in the Family. Really hope they can come back next year. After the show me and Cral hooked up with Rekkie and Sairo for dinner at TGI Fridays for a very tasty dinner outside. Coming back Carl and I sat in with Rekkie as they did there Knotcast podcast. Which was very funny (cocks on the eraser board was quite a distraction) but did touch on a few important subjects.
After a long evening I did decided to crash early, leaving Ddraglais and fen to burn up the dance floors I was a little miffed to hear they only played about an hours worth of 70's beats before diving back into trance music, nothing against though in suit it can be hard to keep up the pace, but if the theme is going to be disco they could of gone into early versions of techno.
Sunday we had to checkout at noon which we all nearly slept to so in a frantic rush and having left my bottle of Axe shower gel and Carl his swim suit hanging in the shower we dropped off the last bit of out things at Rekkie's for the evening. I have to say I was feeling the PCD's knowing that something so fun was coming to a close. Went to the art auction winning 3 pieces two being birthday gifts for
dook and
khyle the other a print that mom wanted. I introduced
arcnova and his friend Eeep to Ddraglais spending quite the good times together. Carl picked up some awesome badges from Docmarcus and Dook, me I grabbed one from Dook, Rukis, I'll be getting copies and posting them up soon. Later in the evening we joined dook, Khyle, Arcnova,
sablegryphon,
Mitti, and Padder to have dinner at the magic time machine. Our waiter was Mr. Incredible X3 and we had our photo taken by Knives Chou one was completely photoshopped and messed up x3.
Monday was just a day to relax spent and awesome time with Rekkie and Sairo and their friends zipping around Oaklawn grabbing lunch and Hunky's and snooping around the shops in the gaybrohood and around the North Dallas Mall. Before leaving out back home.
Overall the con was awesome and continues to grow bigger and bigger lots of fun memories looking forward to next year.
ddraglaisdragon left out at after we both got off work Thursday arriving late in Dallas we made a quick stop at El Fenix for din din and stayed the night at
rekkie. Giving Sydney (Rekkie and Sairo's sweet German Sheppy) many loveins
dook came by for a visit and a little fursuit repair that Ddraglais was happy to help him make. Catching up on missed episodes of Glee and Raising Hope. Friday we got ourselves checked in and picked up our conbadges. I was very eager to try on my Acroth partial suit for the first time. Opting to go out first without the sports coat (didn't want to get too over heated) I have to say going out suiting for the first time was a mixture of being a thrill and quite nervous.
syntheticjewel did a great job on the mask and arms only place I felt heat and sweat was just around the cheeks and the material on the arms surprisingly kept my arms cooler feeling. Overall I got quite alot of awesome comments. Picked up a awesome looking shiny red harness for Ddraglais at
Lagarto's After making a quick run to Walmart me and Ddraglais went to Knockouts to get fancied up. Ddraglasis treating himself special with a mini facial x3 apparently they where filming a telemundo commercial or spot there and Ddraglais was the hunky star in the hot towel wrap XD. Grabbing a quick bite to eat at Hooters. After getting lost in Arlington on the look out for getting the ingredients to Ddraglais's magic libations (thank you Spike for pointing us in the right direction) we picked up our roommate
unshackledfenrir. Saturday was spent wandering through out the con meeting new folks and old friends. I loved how the art auction was set up this year though it was a bit hard writing a bid on those perforated boards with out your pin poking through. May be next year they could have them on a clip board or denser paperstock for the bid sheets(missed the scritch and botch) Also dig the con suite and the corral thought it was very open and airy though was bummed out to learn someone broke in some time late Saturday and lifted many of the con's soda-pop. It was fun to suit in the parade I do hope if anyone took photos might they send me a pic please ^.=.^ I'd like to know what you thought and if any seasoned suiter had any recommendations or pointers. I jumped in at the charity auction in the ball room snagging me a 1st run copy of Watership Down I don't feel I paid to much it all went to a good cause to feed the tigers at CARE. I enjoyed the FNL variety show I knew it was a little rushed but over all quite enjoyable to see their takes on the 70's shows of Dallas and All in the Family. Really hope they can come back next year. After the show me and Cral hooked up with Rekkie and Sairo for dinner at TGI Fridays for a very tasty dinner outside. Coming back Carl and I sat in with Rekkie as they did there Knotcast podcast. Which was very funny (cocks on the eraser board was quite a distraction) but did touch on a few important subjects.
After a long evening I did decided to crash early, leaving Ddraglais and fen to burn up the dance floors I was a little miffed to hear they only played about an hours worth of 70's beats before diving back into trance music, nothing against though in suit it can be hard to keep up the pace, but if the theme is going to be disco they could of gone into early versions of techno.
Sunday we had to checkout at noon which we all nearly slept to so in a frantic rush and having left my bottle of Axe shower gel and Carl his swim suit hanging in the shower we dropped off the last bit of out things at Rekkie's for the evening. I have to say I was feeling the PCD's knowing that something so fun was coming to a close. Went to the art auction winning 3 pieces two being birthday gifts for
dook and
khyle the other a print that mom wanted. I introduced
arcnova and his friend Eeep to Ddraglais spending quite the good times together. Carl picked up some awesome badges from Docmarcus and Dook, me I grabbed one from Dook, Rukis, I'll be getting copies and posting them up soon. Later in the evening we joined dook, Khyle, Arcnova,
sablegryphon,
Mitti, and Padder to have dinner at the magic time machine. Our waiter was Mr. Incredible X3 and we had our photo taken by Knives Chou one was completely photoshopped and messed up x3. Monday was just a day to relax spent and awesome time with Rekkie and Sairo and their friends zipping around Oaklawn grabbing lunch and Hunky's and snooping around the shops in the gaybrohood and around the North Dallas Mall. Before leaving out back home.
Overall the con was awesome and continues to grow bigger and bigger lots of fun memories looking forward to next year.
Ssvanti
~ssvanti
Dook's pretty awesome. Always love Rukis' art! I'm sure you and Fen got along fine, but you never ran into Rexymagic?
Acroth
~acroth
OP
Dook and his brother Khyle are Both awesome guys. I was surprised to see Rukis there but it was a joy to meet and get to talk to her. Hehe Fen is a great guy carl and I made him a bullwolf hat. I kept and eye out for rexy but couldn't find him apparently he did see me but missed saying hello.
rick2tails
~rick2tails
someone stole pop/soda from the con how bogus!
Acroth
~acroth
OP
Yup that's what I heard thought the hotel would of had a camera in there watching the place since it has a actual bar there but guess they didn't.
rick2tails
~rick2tails
I was impressed they had some name brand stuff too.Most con suites at furs cons I used to run into had all generic stuff. This one had a mix.But I didnt really bother with it much.I had bought my own snacks and caffeine free soda to the con and was busy in the middle of the day when I might of gotten hungry and ate dinner right after the dealers room closed each day.Also the soda/pop not being cold lowered my interest and I figured i`d leave it for those who needed it more.
Acroth
~acroth
OP
Yeah I enjoyed the suite, they did a great job trying to keep it stocked. I kept to the bottle water. I can understand not having a cooler big enough for them all but they did have plenty of ice. Did you go visit Shiva's tea party across from the registrations on Sunday?
rick2tails
~rick2tails
no I didnt have anything to contribute to eat or drink really and cant say I`m a big fan of tea.I suppose maybe I could have sampled some to see if there was any flavors I liked.But I was busying finishing up sketchbook commission business (obtaining not producing) and visiting with an artist friend I hadnt seen in years.
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