Oh god what a weekend!

Thursday - got to Pittsburgh around 11 am. Hung out a little and met up with Omegafolf. I had managed to procure him a new pair of boxing gloves (red ones to match his new trunks and reference sheet.) as well as a small costume title belt...which unfortunately doesn't fit him nor me without modification. As it happened we managed to get our badges and decided to go exploring in the strip district going to the Asian market for some candy and drinks. Afterwards we tried to find Primanti Brothers. After missing it by 3 blocks we found the original Peace, Love, and Little donuts location and procured their last dozen maple bacon donuts for the day with the intent of potentially selling them for a profit as Fernando's was closing entirely and could not get them.

As we went to the zoo. Omega tried to open a ramune soda he bought...which promptly exploded. Almost ruining a sketchbook someone was working on. Thankfully and mercifully nothing from the exploding soda got on it at all.

At which time we called zervon and were told to get up to his room for the keys. We went to the elevator line which didn't move....and that's when we suggested going up to the 19th floor by walking... thankfully we didn't keel over dead. Getting the room keys and reclaiming whatever breath we had to keep from dying. My girlfriend managed to get in roughly at about 4 and myself and other roomies went to to unload the car with all her stuff. After we got that all done we decided to go and have dinner at Fernando's. After wards we headed to our room for the night.

Friday - my god this was a blur. Got omega suited up for everything for his first time suiting at anthrocon. We took omegas old blue set of gloves hoping to run into Maximus Ursus as we had talked about getting some photos done. I dropped off some books for art for myself and ran into Max who we were told would be hopping into his brand new fursuit after opening ceremonies. We went to opening ceremonies and saw the stuff they would be handing out and where the badges could be got. We ran back to the room and got omega fully suited up. While waiting for the badges we ran into Hell-o Kitty who was wearing a pair of pink boxing gloves and trunks and really suprised him that there was another suiter doing the whole boxing gimmick thing. We went down to the dealers room and ran into omega's and max's close friend Tiptoe who said max was getting into suit soon. We ran back upstairs and waited for him to show up. We found him for the photoshoot. The pictures look amazing and Max really enjoyed it getting into everything. The pics will be uploaded soon. Max thank you very much and I am glad you enjoyed the little stuff we did. I know you'll get a kick out of suiting more and more. I can't wait to see what the big blue bear can get himself into in the real world. The rest of the day was amazing to the point I barely remember a lot of it.

Saturday - Ah Saturday. Went to the dealers room and grabbed my one sketch book and picked up a few other small items before getting omega ready for the parade. My friend Vera had managed to come as well and were going to meet her to set up for the parade. While me and omega are going to the parade start point one of the large contingent of Japanese furs was standing around and saw Omega in suit and proceeded to almost freak out. He was a friend of Dee and was astonished to see Omega's suit and through some very broken English asked him for a few photos. It was really quite amazing.

Vera and I managed to get some really prime real estate for the parade near the front doors where the suiters would start. After setting my camera up and such and waiting for almost an hour the parade started. Whoa jeez 1044 suits in the parade (number is somewhat closer to 1040 IMO cause of a few people who really aren't wearing suits get in there.) We ran into Dee's friend again who gave us a business card and got omega some pictures from dragon scales. We tried go run to meetup with another suiter for some pictures but it wasn't meant to be and we missed him. We finally got omega out of suit after almost 3 and a half hours.

Sunday - God sunday.... Got my last sketch book back and said as many good byes as I could. Went to the Funday Pawpet show and tried streaming it via my phone. But the battery drain was too much and had to stop. I really hated to miss Saruyon's performance, but thankfully he showed up at the show and I snapped a few pictures of him doing his juggling. It still amazes me he can do all this in fursuit. Went to Kage and 2's charity performance and laughed like crazy at two masters of their craft. Also snapped a few pictures of 2's "Suprise" for his boyfriend. But I'll let him tell that. After the performance Kazzy and I went with Zervon and his wife as well as a ton of other people to Buca de Beppo for a nice dinner. After deciding that staying would be bad because I wouldnt' get any sleep I decided to drive home in a helacious rainstorm that really made driving difficult. Also tie int he fact my GPS kept trying to make me go the wrong way and my wiper blades sucking. Yeah... fun times. Got home. unpacked went to bed.

TO everyone who I saw, met, waved at, shot pictures of. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. Thank you. This year was the best AC I've ever been to and it just keeps getting better.

Looking at how much stuff has been happening at the cons I'm definately gonna go back to making individual journal posts at the end of the day. It's just so hard to remember everything in the confines of a con on a monday or sunday night and summerize it all for consumption.