I have to say, even after a few downs, this was by far the best con experience I've ever had! This year, I roomed with  bucktowntiger and  floppybelly at the con hotel, instead of driving back and forth. Ran into some old friends, and made some new ones! Even went out of my way to play with the fursuiters this year, instead of just snapping random pics. (Especially  Piston and  Paddlefoot, who's suits are cute as hell!) Had one hell of an epic balloon fight, with  JaseHusky,  Taekwo,  GoldenWolf2879, and  BlooHowler

Things I've learned from this con:

Apparently at least 90% of gay men love boobs. (Though all that were asked, as they passed the Dealer's Den pretty much gave a hell yes! I wasn't the one asking though, it was Yukigo Kurosaki! ;))
Robot dogs can be fucking adorable, even when their battery drains to nothing! :P
Alcohol before really funny events, isn't always a good thing. Next year, I'm keeping that to room parties only.

This year, I didn't take near as many pictures, as I did video. I literally have just over six hours of video, totaling a mere 15GB. It took about twenty minutes, to just download it all from the SDHC card! XD I don't think I'll be trimming much of it, so get ready Youtube! :P

Saturday was fairly fun. Bucktown held a second impromptu concert, and later went around the first floor (including the Dealer's Den and Con Suite) trying to raise donations for Tiger Haven. After all of this, I went outside for my turn in the dunk tank (which was also to raise funds for Tiger Haven). Unfortunately this was at the same time as the charity aution, so nobody showed to dunk me. That water was STILL ice cold, from when they dunked Tyger Cowboy two hours prior...which involved the adding of seventy-two pounds of ice! Saturday night, was a busy night in itself! Between running back and forth between the our room on the fourth floor (and I don't mean figuratively..I actually ran back and forth) , and the stage where :bucktowntiger: was setting up shop, the show itself, and the live  knotcast panel immediately afterward (because the people after Bucktown's show never showed up, so we ate up another hour.) I had some rather sore feet that night! :P

Also, since I was staying at the con hotel this year, I decided to partake of some fine booze from  twistedspectrum's room party on the last night of the con. That by itself, was a lot of fun! Some guy even brought his own laser light show, which looked even amazing while I was drunk! :P (I only had about a shot's worth of coconut rum, two shots worth of vanilla whipped cream vodka mixed with A&W, two jello shots (one of which was made with everclear), and some epic vodka spiked fruit punch! Then we all went back to our room, and partook of the purple drank, and I did a couple shots worth of orange pucker (Yes, that's actually what the bottle said! Shush! XD). By that time, I was a veeeery happy doggy! (and by that, I mean drunk, not the other kind of happy! *snickers*)  kyo_foxtrot came to the room, and we all chilled till around 3am.

The next morning, we all started the unhappy task of packing up our things, and leaving. Said goodbye to so many people, than I hung out with! It's only been a day, and I already miss the con! :( A group of us got together, and invaded Leonards Pit BBQ for lunch, and had one last blast before returning to the real world.

So much went on at this con, that it's all a big blur atm! :P If I forgot to mention someone, or something, I apologize! (doesn't help that I'm doped up on cold & cough meds atm, so I'm even more scatter brained than normal!)

Con swag: I ended up buying two copies of Bucktown's "Purring Piano" album (one as a gift, for my mother), and later hit the  Furplanet table for  Kyell's "Isolation Play" and  Blotch's Nordguard: Across Thin Ice. The last two, I've been waiting to get, for a while now! (btw Zia, if you're reading this, I promise that I *will* buy your books too! :P) I also commissioned a B/W con badge from  ConfusedOO, which you can find a scan of on my account.

What concerned me about this year's con, is that the hotel was accidentally double-booked this year. (not the fault of the con, it just slipped through the cracks) There was a family reunion being hosted there as well, which made things VERY interesting. Most of them loved the fursuiters, and even got pictures taken with them! The bad part, was that at around 7:30am on Sat, they decided it was a wonderful idea to fire off a bunch of guns on the hotel grounds! (and I don't mean some little piss-ant pistols either. They had to have been at least high-power rifles or shotguns, from all the noise they made!)

With all that said, I'd like to thank everyone for showing me a good time this year! I can't wait till next year!