Okay well I figured its time to post my report from MFF. I am still mourning the loss of my puppy, and I will for a long while to come, he will never leave my heart. But its time to attempt to cheer up, so I will do so in remembering my time away at the con of my life.

So starting on the Wednesday I headed down to London to meet up with  tiger_sammy and along the way grabbed  Frostscar from the torontoish area to take him home. It was nice to have company for the drive down to London. Once there I did some touring around for  Frostscar and then grabbed  tiger_sammy from work and headed back to his place for supper. After dinner I help finish up  cola_katz new suit and then we went back for sleeps.
Thursday morning started around 8:30am, I dropped Sam off at work and I headed out to the via rail station to grab 2 of my 3 carpool furries. At 10:00am my crusier adopted 2 canines, a fox and kitsune. It was the first time I ever met  raverfox420 and the second or third time I’ve met  mune It was such a blast heading down to the border where we picked up the last of are carpool team,  AngelKitt Now at this time I had already been in the car for about... 5 hours, and we had another 7 or 8 ahead of us, so we were all eager to get going and on the road.

Once more I will say that I was so impressed we got all 4 of us in my car, WITH all our fursuits. It was quite impressive.
Upon arriving at the border, we passed through easily without much question, the guard did make a funny face at my fursuit head in the back, but he was in a good move and waved us on. In the USA finally, the last and longest leg of our journey began.

Around 3 hours in I noticed the steering on my car getting stiff, not bad but noticeable. The I94 is very straight so I didn’t feel it a whole lot until I took a harder corner and my heart sank. My steering was shot... Anywhere but now, anywhere. Im in another country, with 3 other Canadians, my car is packed with furry items and I have NO steering. It took all my power to turn off the ramp to get into a Loves gas station and took the rest of my will power not to break down crying.

After adding some power steering fluid into my car and that not working, and a call to my daddy.. Yes when in doubt and stuck in another country who ya gonna call? My dad! After that we talked to the attendant in the station who pointed me in the direction of the closest mechanics. Just down the road was Fountain Automotive in Marshall Michigan. I showed up, told him our story, and left my car in their hands. I started unravelling at the seams at this point, choking up, trying my best not to cry. Now a HUGE props out to  mune for keeping me positive, you truly were a life
saver hunny.

Now stranded, starving, and with no wheels we stopped at the eatery just beside the mechanics and grabbed a bite. After hugs from all I started to relax and hope for the best. Checking over the menu I decided to try “The Worlds Best Carrot Cake” as claimed in several areas in the restaurant. And it really was the best carrot cake I’ve ever had. The waitress, and other patrons’ were so warm and welcoming. I guess knowing we were from out of town from our accents, hehe. I got a sticker (yes a pink one) of a start and put it on their map of people who have traveled far and wide just for their carrot cake. Not many came from Ontario, let alone out in the boonies from Ontario. Now at this point I was happy, in a better mood and it was only going to get better. I got a call from the mechanic next door saying my car was ready to be picked up and it only cost me $150. I told him “God bess your cotton socks” and I guess that threw him a little because he paused and giggled over the phone.

We hugged each other, I cried once more, and I paid the man. He could have charged me $600 and I would have had to pay it because I was stranded, but he didn’t. I thanked him over and over for that. What had happened, is a belt came off its footing and in the process knocked a cable off thus rendering my steering useless. So now with a working vehicle, we headed out on the road in the dark, and about 5 hours from our destination; MFF.

We stopped once for food, and gas then quickly got back on the road, I was SOO happy I had steering, cracking jokes here and there to comment on it. We all laughed.
Now getting closer to Rosemont my GPS threw me for a loop. I forgot to update it, and so it didn’t know there was a road closure ahead. I was forced off the highway into what can only be described as “zombie land” Closed down plants, decrepit fences, weeds growing through the pavement of the side walks... It. Was. Terrifying and only got worse.

While sitting at a red light, I shit you not, we watched a coke deal go bad. There was a guy standing under a street lamp talking to another dude, and an unmarked cop car swung around with lights on and all and stopped beside them. At this point the light turned green and I booked it back to the highway. Where we got back on, the main highway we were driving on earlier just ended. It was like out of a movie, it just stopped, broken concrete and all. It was really creepy.

Now we’re getting closer to society again, I can see lights and cars once more so I’m happy. Another few hours of driving in the city I can see the destination target on my GPS getting closer and closer. My heart was racing to just get there and get out of my car. We all knew we were in the right place when we saw fursuiters hanging out and around the hotel. I was elated. We made it, I had spend 11 hours in my car, had issues, and we had finally made it.

I won’t go into the details of the hotel as I’m sure there have been many photos but I will say that it was gorgeous. I was in love with the hotel, I didn’t want to leave. The fact the hotel let us furries take it over for a weekend was amazing. Just. Wow.

Friday morning started early, Oh and by the way, did I mention we changed time zones? Yeah we were an hour behind in Rosemont. I didn’t know. Anyways in the morning I got a text from  tundru to come grab him from the airport. I poked  raverfox420 a few times but he didn’t move, so I told  tundru to text him to get his furry put out of bed. After a few moments he got up, put some pants on and we headed out to the airport.

NOW, its early, I’m once more following my GPS and we still managed to get lost in the airport...  raverfox420 and I did 3 laps before  tundru was acquired. It was painful... never again.. Arrivals and Departures were backwards, it was so confusing. So now we are heading to a Walgreens to grab booze for the fox. Because fox runs of booze, hehe. Ya won't believe it, but I had even MORE car trouble... We hit a train track and my muffler dropped off. Oh I sounded bad ass! LOL. We grabbed the booze and then made a quick jaunt down the road to another mechanic.

So at this point I am on the verge of tears once more as a man missing a few teeth was patching up my car for me. Again, he could have charged me anything but only billed me for $40. Again, I was so happy to just have it fixed we made it back to the hotel and I vouched to not drive my car at all again until we had to leave. And I meant it.

The con itself was rocking, we did dances, a few panels, had a ton of laughs and cuddles. It was so awesome. Just spending time with  tundru ,  raverfox420 and  mune was so fun. I loved walking around in my fursuit, showing off the glow feature at the dance, drawing attention to me, it was fun!

Sunday afternoon we headed home, it was quiet, we were all sad, but we made good time, getting back into the country around 10:30pm. I could have kissed the soil. I was so happy. We dropped off  AngelKitt at home and went back to our hotel for the night. It was a super 8, just some place for us to sleep before driving the last 6 hour stretch to Toronto.

Once in Toronto we stopped by  mune and  raverfox420 ‘s new house before taking them to their apartment. I gotta say their new house is SOO nice, I can’t wait to go visit. Once I dropped them off at their apartment I headed the hour and a half home alone... My car was so empty, so light and quiet. Made me really sad to be alone.

When I got home I got the news that my puppy passed away on the Saturday of the con. And that was my weekend..

So yeah, for those of you still reading, congrats, I know it was a lot to go through. I can for sure say that every year I will be attending MFF for sure and I will be rooming with the same 3 furries. I loved it.