*warning long summary of the event!*

Well 2011's midfur got moved to early 2012 instead, so Midfur will technically be on twice this year! XD

Originally myself and Crazy were not going to attend Midfur 13 at all... It was a mix of all kinds of things on reason why, both were going to be working, time of year (a few days after new year >.<) and the fact that the previous midfur was.. welll.. if you went you'd understand. So really atteneding this midfur was a "make it or break it" type of thing, so it was good that we actually ended up getting work off. We pretty much decided to go only a few days before it started =P

Soooo we packed up quickly and drove 5hrs to our home town to crash the night and then another 5 or so hours down to melb from there. X__X we did this the first day of midfur, so we missed the opening. Once we arrived and settled in at the backpackers we went to get a few supplies and then decided to go get a con book for times. We happened to arrive just after the last event finished so we ended up talking to alot of peeps coming out the front door for almost 2 hours! lol XD then sleepy times!

Arrived at the con for day 2 *fairly* early and got the first kick in the guts... I had $100 which i thought would be plenty enough for 2 days worth of con for 2... but no, had to go get an extra $200 X_____X... I wasnt expecting that! arrwell... should have looked up the costs earlier ^^; ANNyways.. after that wondered about for a bit to check out the conspace then went into the dealers den to see what pretties were inside! XD

Talked to 2 gryphon for a bit and bought the one dvd i still hadnt gotten yet =P Totally should have gotten it signed but had no texta >.< (which i then went and bought but never got to see him again) *sadface*


Talked to Jen for a while! and got her wanting shirts from welovefine.com =D hehehe ^__^ looked at the pretty artz inside the art section.. wish i had lotsa moneh X_X

Pondered around a bit more then I think we went to lunch and came back in time to watch the Gaming panel! Lots of fun, Tinycat YOU AWESOME =D it sure was informative and hilarious! yey for the robo-cat thing in nuts and bolts.. that was EPIC! =D

I think we spent more time talking to people than attending events and such.

Later BC and Spence announced their love for each other asking eachother to marriage (again) with new rings after their previous rings had been stolen... was a very sweet announcement and was glad so many could turn up to witness <3

Then Crazy and I headed out with Kraden, Carni, Kaz and a bunch of others for nom foods!! =D which was super awesome and tasty! =D yey! Then we rushed back to be in time for 2's comedy performance! which was as always, entertainging and awesomely funnY! =D Much fun! and got a few video snippets too ^__^

Chilled for a little while before getting changed into "Priss" my black and red dragon suit! In prep for epic dance times! (I so wish we had gone to the one the previos night that mosky DJ'd! He said he had a line up just for us!! drum and bass and dub step alike! nuu!! we missed it!!)
BBF Dj'd this night and it was indeed very cool, loved the music, but like last year, the transitioning between songs and stuff pretty much stops and its hard to keep up dancing/bouncing around with no music beat XD so yeh.

After a bit we headed out to Anthrax's room to drink, chill and talk. It was mad!! XD Some of the stuff you people talk about! lol it sure was fun listening!! Poor crazy passed out and was all lifeless, no matter how much we poked yelled and moved him, he wouldnt awaken ^^; awrrr <3 I think it was the combo of homebrew and 'BAKON' vodka that put him out! poor foxy. When it was time to leave, the amount of struggle getting the fox back to the back packers was intense!! I had a nice lad help me drag him home (sorry i cant remember your name!!!) but thankyou!!!

Then sleep at like 4am X_X

Next day woke up at 10.30 (had to make sure we had the minimal 6 hrs ;P lol ) Crazy awoke still drunk XD and I made sure he downed lots of water!! We then went out and had brekky at a choclate bar that served eggs benedict for cheap! =D and nom drinks and nom choccys!

During that day we pretty much went to about 1/2hr of advanced art panel (never actually sat in the audience for any art panel before!) and most of the photography panel =D *yey cat!* ^__^ I had to exit early to get dressed for a photoshoot though. I had gotten Priss taken first which was lots of fun then headed to get Jasper set up! I had a 40min wait while other had their pics taken, but then had to wait 1.5hrs longer XD I eventually got there and had lots of sexy jasper pictures taken =D yey!

We went and got some din dins and went back to the con and chilled out with da CAT.. Atpaw and ate then went into to watch the No talent show. NOW THAT was awesome, had alot of funny moments and OMG colourful dude with dreads, YOU GOT DA MOVES!!! X"D I vote you win all talet ^__^ hehe and jibba agreed! =P

After the no talent I got into Priss and participated in the furlympics! =D I was on team 'vampire' (laaaaame) we didnt do too awesomely but was alot of fun!! (I managed to get my ball in the bucket) yey! =P After all that awesome fun it was time to get out of suit and cool down, the music for the night sounded like it was awesome! But we decided no dancing tonight. Instead... it was scotch con! XD That sure was alot of fun, got up to mischief and played the crazy pirate game XD along with some scotchness.

Then we had to head off to get sleeeep...

The next morning we got up and packed up our stuff and put it all in the car, then went out for brekky again, this time nandos and then sat on the grass near swanston st waiting for the fursuiters to walk by.. after a while we noticed they must have come the other way and we spotted them on the other side of the grass =P we chilled for a bit and talked to lots of peeps and took photos n such. Hugged people goodbye as we were off for waffles and then home.

Managed to run into just about everyone I wanted to say goodbye to during the madness and out front of the hotel =D then we trammed it down with enigma and Kat to Fed square and went to get the NOM WAFFLES I had SOooooo been wanting the whole time in melb! The waffles were as awesome always and they even sold that ever famous 'furry' drink Origina! lol

Then it was home time... we went and got the car and then headed to get crazys computer bits before starting the epic drive home. which in total was about 11 hours X.x Crazy drove most of the way, i was so dead tired. blarg. we stopped for dinner at a place in the middle of nowhere called the bellbird hotel.

SOOOO

In summary, Midfur was indeed vastly improved from the last 2 midfurs... the organisation was excellent! And it was good to see the organisers relaxed and not running around all the time, they actually got to chill and talk ^__^
I also think it was improved so much due to the fact the only badge check was at the front door, right where it should be! =D I didnt mind this at all, its appropriate and the door peeps were awesome. Security peeps were nice and chilled too, that was a nice change ^__^

The only thing that got me was that the upstairs rooms I only accidently stumbled upon when looking around. It was quiet and felt like you shouldnt be up there XD But they were good rooms and all!

Any improvements we felt was needed.. was that the 'until 3am' dances should only be on either every 2 nights or the first and last night of the con. mainly because hardly anyone was at the dances.. especially friday night there was like 1 or 2 people there every time I went down there O.o and we felt it could have been used as an artjam room or chill out area for every one to mingle and drink until late instead.

I REALLY hope to attend Decembers Midfur (as we still havent missed one yet since 2006!) I hope it will be awesome.. and hopefully much more affordable!
... yeh prices, although a little cheaper than previous years.. definetly for the amount of stuff going on, could have been alot cheaper still... IMO.... ^^;

Thanks to Pete for being such a great con dude!! xD

And thankyou to all that we got to hang out with for dinners, lunches and night time mingles! was great to catch up with so many of you! =)

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