VancouFUR 2013 POST-CON Report
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Thursday:
It started Thursday morning. I had all my stuff packed the night before. I got up early around 8am and started to pack my car. I planned to meet up with Razzy at the ferry terminal at 10am. Our plan was to be there in time for a big dinner we had planned at 6pm. I was afraid not everything would fit in my new but small car. Picked up Razzy then headed over to Skyan's place. Everything fit! I was so happy. Just barely though. At least I know my limit for convention rideshare is 3. XD
As soon as we started heading north, it started to rain. No open top for this trip. D: Dispite that, it was a fun fun ride up. Stopped out side Belingham for a very windy and cold lunch at Sonics. Traffic was almost nothing. We made record time to the border. Even the border was just NO ONE. At that point I said goodbye to my 4G and shut down our phones. Discovered a bad ass EDM station on XM radio called "BPM". Channel 51, check it out! XD The ride there was quick and we didn't get lost. Very happy with my GPS not effing me over. We pulled up to the hotel nice and early. We had time to unpack, rest, AND get in a shopping trip for food at the super market next door before dinner.
Dinner was alot of fun! :D :D Not many showed up, but a few old friends were there! It was, unfortunately, the only good time I got to talk with davecko since (like most cons), he's banished to the dealers den for most of it. And me being a fursuiter means we don't see much of each other. Great to see him again, and meet his new boyfriend Bundt. :) Also got to finally meet the super nice and awesome sampsonwoof! A fellow NW furry I have talk with alot on Twitter. Great to finally meet him. :) kirinafa also showed up last minute after being on a two day trip north. :D
After that, we kinda just decided to take it easy and chill in our room the rest of the night, joined by Kirin. Reo also showed up about that time. After being discouraged by horridly insulting beer prices, we decided to not really do a room party. Next year i'm bringing up some beer. Fucking Canada, man.
Friday:
Friday was day 1! YEY! I had to plan a little bit since I had a panel RIGHT after reg opened. So, I decided to join my official VF2013 fursuting buddy, Kirinafa and be one of the first suiters in the lobby to welcome people! :D It wouldn't be long since I had registration then panel, so we had to hurry. The lobby ended up being rather quiet for fursuiting, but I was able to play around a little bit with a few other suiters who happend to be down there. We were included in univadedfox's video for VF as well! Me and Kirin did something with a ball as directed. I'm looking forward to the video. Sounds cute. :3
After suiting in the lobby for about 2 hours that morning, me and Kirin called it quits till later that day. After I desuited, I realized I didn't eat anything. LUL! Typical me. XD I ran into Kirin on the way to Tim Hortons and she agreed to save me a spot in reg if I got her some OJ. I have good memories or waiting in line with my Creeper hoodie zipped up sipping on a cup of java. XD After I got registered I set up for my panel. I had just enough time to head on up to prep for my panel.
Commissions 101: For the Buyer went.. ok. I did the panel like I did at RF. I even had leftover handouts from RF to use. More then I expected showed up. That was nice. I did it a lil too fast compared to last time. Had a few questions, and I had to be rather long winded to fill time up due to lack of questions. At the end of the panel, no one applauded like at RF and I got no one thanking me either. I guess I shouldn't expect that at each panel, but it got me worried that I fucked up the panel. Eh... I guess we'll see at Everfree. I plan to do the panel there too.
After the panel, I pretty much spent the rest of the day in Fursuit. I didn't even take it off to attend sixel's Comm 102 panel. XD I did so many things in suit, it was a blast! Everyone suited up by then and the halls and lobby were full of furries! I didn't take my suit off till later that night after welcoming cerimonies! After that, I decided I needed food. XD We all decided to head on over to Boston Pizza. It was just gonna be me and Kirin and her roommate, but it compiled into a massive group of furries almost 12 people! XD Even more then the dinner Thursday night! HAHA! That was alot of fun. Dracona made me an AMAZING papercraft of my Minecraft skin! I loved it! :D Also, please note my limit is ONE Twisted Rocket. XD
Saturday:
Saturday started off with a nice coffee and danish with my fursuiting buddy Kirin. :3 After that we headed back and watched Razzy's panel on Fursuit Making for Beginners. It was alot of fun. :3 After that me and Lil' Sis' suited up for the big 3 events of the day: Parade, Dance Comp and the Harlem Shuffle! All were super amazing! Very happy and proud of Razzy for winning first place in the Dance Comp! :D :D Congrats Razzy! After that we hung around a big then desuited for the GOH dinner. The dinner was pretty nice. It was buffett style. Akonite had these special cakes made for the GOH's! They were super cool.
Afterwards we took the opportunity to spend time at the pool since it was a really sunny day. We ended up getting the last hour of daylight, but it was ALOT of fun. There was big pool toy dragons everyone was playing with. Not sure what happend after that. I think we eventually suited up and headed out to the dance and just goofed around in the lobby. Had a few awesome photo ops with Akonite and at the photo booth with my pickax. :3
Sunday:
Sunday was fun! Just as fun as any other day of the con. :3 First thing was the MLP panel at 10am. Kinda sucked honestly. Every furry con has had lame MLP panels. The only one I liked was the MLP panel at RF2011. That one was AMAZING. THis was was kinda lame. All they talked about was the drama at Unicon. So that was a waste of an hour.
Kept my suit off for the Ice Cream Social. That was great! I went with, who else but my con buddy Kirin. :3 Ice Cream was super yummy and we had some nice conversations with a few furries including Akonite. :3 CHOCOLATE RAIN. ... anyway. XD
After that was the event I look forward to the most at every furry con. The FURSUIT GAMES! I love fursuit games. They are a blast! I was kinda depressed I threw out my ankle at the RF12 games. :( So I was happy to be back in the game again. Hockey was fun! I got to be goalie again! I don't know how I always end up being the goalie, but that's ok! It was fun! Even thought I lost! XD There's a photo out there of me hanging my head in shame cause I blew a save. hehe The only hitch from the games was that I almost got crushed. I finally was on the WRONG side a furpile. First time that happend, and it was NOT fun. I couldn't breathe and it almost crushed the paper in my fursuit head eyes. I started to yell for people to get off of me. Yeah... that sucked. X.x But that aside, the fursuit games was ALOT OF FUN! If anyone has a video of the games, PLEASE SEND IT TO ME! I REALLY wanna watch it!!
Closing ceremonies I was still in suit, but Kirin called it quites. I just couldn't stop suiting. I didn't want the con to end. :( I sat next to Kirin and watched them auction off a bunch of stuff including Kirin's papercraft which was super popular. :D Everyone loved it! Also, I asked Akonite to give a shout out to WFS12! I hope we get the record broken this time! :) After that, I kinda decided to give up. It's late, I'd been suiting ALL damn day. Time to accept the fact the con is ending and desuit. :(
After that we went to dinner at BP together. Quite a big group again. Almost 12 people! I was rather mad because it took BP TWO FUCKING HOURS to get us in and out. We almost missed Shimi's Dead Dog Dance set. Dinner was fun but depressing at the same time. I loved it like all the other dinners, but I knew it was the last. Sunday is always full of a lil depression since that looming fact it's almost over. After dinner, we rushed back to the hotel and suited up the Dead Dog Dance. Reo had already been there dancing. After I got down there, my body told me I was done. I had suited up so much, my body was pretty much exhausted. I could barely stand. I wiggled around a little bit at the dance, but I was done. After about and hour, I went back up to the room, and put MaxCoyote away for good. :( The rest of the night was us spending time together in the room, talking and the like. Kirin decided to stay with us in our room that night due to some roommate issues.
Monday & Bodysuit:
Monday was happy, but bittersweet. We packed up, said goodbye to whoever was left and got food. It was wonderful time and I was so happy I went. The drive back was sunny! We actually got to drive back with the top open. :3 The border was easy. No issues. Despite the horror stories of others. When we got back to Razzy's place, she was super awesome. She fixed me and Skyan some awesome sammiches and we sat around and talked a while. Kinda reflected on the weekend and got all blah cause it was over. But happy. :)
VF was the first event with my new bodysuit made by Razzy. Normally the delivery was a month past VF, but Razzy was super awesome to get it done just in time! Having a fullsuit for VF made the con amazing for me. Probably made more difference then anything else when it come to fursuiting for the event. It's really hard to explain how I felt in fullsuit. It made my happy and giddy, while almost making me wanna cry from happiness. :) Being able to be in character, get hugs, and be around others who were so happy to see me and hug me made it so incredible. Everyone was so supportive of my fursuit and my character. I love interacting with everyone who decided to interact with my fursuit. Thank you so much everyone!
The suit itself worked out great! I love the digit legs. They feel big, poofy, soft and fun to walk with. I constantly would stop by those big mirrors in the hallway and look at myself like some diva! XD I couldn't help myself! I looked so awesome in the suit. It worked so great! A few lil minor things needed some fixing, but they were normal bugs for a brand new suit. Razzy did a great job with the suit. It looks and feels amazing to wear! I could not of hired a better person or friend to make it. Thank you so much! :)
Staff & Thank You:
A big thank you to convention staff for doing a great job with the con! They are one of the few young constaff in the world who's put so much effort into their job and done so well. I can't say enough about them, so I'll leave it as a great big THANK YOU and JOB WELL DONE! Also thank you to akonite for being an awesome conchair and person. He's alot of fun to be around, and it makes me kinda sad I don't live in BC. I would love to spend more time with him as a friend. I understand why so many people gravitate to him. You can tell how great a person he is by just being around him. Thank you, Akonite. :)
Thank You to ALL my friends and roomies for being such amazing people and company!
Thank you to my roomies
razzylee,
skyan, and
reograyfox! You guys were super awesome and respectful! I'm deffinatly wanna room with you all again, for VF or sooner! :) You guys are truely what made this weekend amazing in so many ways. Good friends make everything fun. :3
Thank you to my special convention buddy,
kirinafa. You made VF very fun for me by spending most of your time with me and always being a fursuit buddy ready to go. I always believed in a "fursuit buddy" for conventions. It makes it fun to have someone with you when goofing around and performing in suit. It was great to spend so much time with you again after not seeing you since Everfree last year. You're like a lil sister to me, and I look forward to seeing you again. Thanks for being such a good friend. :)
Thank you to
sixel for helping me with the Commission 102! You did a great job. :)
Also, thanks to all my other friends and palls from around the northwest who I saw again at the con. I wish I could mention everyone one by one, but my brain is starting to fail. XD It was great to see you all this last weekend! I hope to see you all again!
This VancouFUR was amazing. Thank you for a wonderful time, Vancouver! :)
Videos:
VancouFUR 2013 Con Video by razzylee
VancouFUR '13 Fursuit Parade by xxarcticfoxxx
VancouFUR '13 Dance Compitition by unknown
VancouFUR '13 Harlem Shake
VancouFUR '13 Fursuit Games (HOUR LONG VIDEO)
Thursday:
It started Thursday morning. I had all my stuff packed the night before. I got up early around 8am and started to pack my car. I planned to meet up with Razzy at the ferry terminal at 10am. Our plan was to be there in time for a big dinner we had planned at 6pm. I was afraid not everything would fit in my new but small car. Picked up Razzy then headed over to Skyan's place. Everything fit! I was so happy. Just barely though. At least I know my limit for convention rideshare is 3. XD
As soon as we started heading north, it started to rain. No open top for this trip. D: Dispite that, it was a fun fun ride up. Stopped out side Belingham for a very windy and cold lunch at Sonics. Traffic was almost nothing. We made record time to the border. Even the border was just NO ONE. At that point I said goodbye to my 4G and shut down our phones. Discovered a bad ass EDM station on XM radio called "BPM". Channel 51, check it out! XD The ride there was quick and we didn't get lost. Very happy with my GPS not effing me over. We pulled up to the hotel nice and early. We had time to unpack, rest, AND get in a shopping trip for food at the super market next door before dinner.
Dinner was alot of fun! :D :D Not many showed up, but a few old friends were there! It was, unfortunately, the only good time I got to talk with davecko since (like most cons), he's banished to the dealers den for most of it. And me being a fursuiter means we don't see much of each other. Great to see him again, and meet his new boyfriend Bundt. :) Also got to finally meet the super nice and awesome sampsonwoof! A fellow NW furry I have talk with alot on Twitter. Great to finally meet him. :) kirinafa also showed up last minute after being on a two day trip north. :D
After that, we kinda just decided to take it easy and chill in our room the rest of the night, joined by Kirin. Reo also showed up about that time. After being discouraged by horridly insulting beer prices, we decided to not really do a room party. Next year i'm bringing up some beer. Fucking Canada, man.
Friday:
Friday was day 1! YEY! I had to plan a little bit since I had a panel RIGHT after reg opened. So, I decided to join my official VF2013 fursuting buddy, Kirinafa and be one of the first suiters in the lobby to welcome people! :D It wouldn't be long since I had registration then panel, so we had to hurry. The lobby ended up being rather quiet for fursuiting, but I was able to play around a little bit with a few other suiters who happend to be down there. We were included in univadedfox's video for VF as well! Me and Kirin did something with a ball as directed. I'm looking forward to the video. Sounds cute. :3
After suiting in the lobby for about 2 hours that morning, me and Kirin called it quits till later that day. After I desuited, I realized I didn't eat anything. LUL! Typical me. XD I ran into Kirin on the way to Tim Hortons and she agreed to save me a spot in reg if I got her some OJ. I have good memories or waiting in line with my Creeper hoodie zipped up sipping on a cup of java. XD After I got registered I set up for my panel. I had just enough time to head on up to prep for my panel.
Commissions 101: For the Buyer went.. ok. I did the panel like I did at RF. I even had leftover handouts from RF to use. More then I expected showed up. That was nice. I did it a lil too fast compared to last time. Had a few questions, and I had to be rather long winded to fill time up due to lack of questions. At the end of the panel, no one applauded like at RF and I got no one thanking me either. I guess I shouldn't expect that at each panel, but it got me worried that I fucked up the panel. Eh... I guess we'll see at Everfree. I plan to do the panel there too.
After the panel, I pretty much spent the rest of the day in Fursuit. I didn't even take it off to attend sixel's Comm 102 panel. XD I did so many things in suit, it was a blast! Everyone suited up by then and the halls and lobby were full of furries! I didn't take my suit off till later that night after welcoming cerimonies! After that, I decided I needed food. XD We all decided to head on over to Boston Pizza. It was just gonna be me and Kirin and her roommate, but it compiled into a massive group of furries almost 12 people! XD Even more then the dinner Thursday night! HAHA! That was alot of fun. Dracona made me an AMAZING papercraft of my Minecraft skin! I loved it! :D Also, please note my limit is ONE Twisted Rocket. XD
Saturday:
Saturday started off with a nice coffee and danish with my fursuiting buddy Kirin. :3 After that we headed back and watched Razzy's panel on Fursuit Making for Beginners. It was alot of fun. :3 After that me and Lil' Sis' suited up for the big 3 events of the day: Parade, Dance Comp and the Harlem Shuffle! All were super amazing! Very happy and proud of Razzy for winning first place in the Dance Comp! :D :D Congrats Razzy! After that we hung around a big then desuited for the GOH dinner. The dinner was pretty nice. It was buffett style. Akonite had these special cakes made for the GOH's! They were super cool.
Afterwards we took the opportunity to spend time at the pool since it was a really sunny day. We ended up getting the last hour of daylight, but it was ALOT of fun. There was big pool toy dragons everyone was playing with. Not sure what happend after that. I think we eventually suited up and headed out to the dance and just goofed around in the lobby. Had a few awesome photo ops with Akonite and at the photo booth with my pickax. :3
Sunday:
Sunday was fun! Just as fun as any other day of the con. :3 First thing was the MLP panel at 10am. Kinda sucked honestly. Every furry con has had lame MLP panels. The only one I liked was the MLP panel at RF2011. That one was AMAZING. THis was was kinda lame. All they talked about was the drama at Unicon. So that was a waste of an hour.
Kept my suit off for the Ice Cream Social. That was great! I went with, who else but my con buddy Kirin. :3 Ice Cream was super yummy and we had some nice conversations with a few furries including Akonite. :3 CHOCOLATE RAIN. ... anyway. XD
After that was the event I look forward to the most at every furry con. The FURSUIT GAMES! I love fursuit games. They are a blast! I was kinda depressed I threw out my ankle at the RF12 games. :( So I was happy to be back in the game again. Hockey was fun! I got to be goalie again! I don't know how I always end up being the goalie, but that's ok! It was fun! Even thought I lost! XD There's a photo out there of me hanging my head in shame cause I blew a save. hehe The only hitch from the games was that I almost got crushed. I finally was on the WRONG side a furpile. First time that happend, and it was NOT fun. I couldn't breathe and it almost crushed the paper in my fursuit head eyes. I started to yell for people to get off of me. Yeah... that sucked. X.x But that aside, the fursuit games was ALOT OF FUN! If anyone has a video of the games, PLEASE SEND IT TO ME! I REALLY wanna watch it!!
Closing ceremonies I was still in suit, but Kirin called it quites. I just couldn't stop suiting. I didn't want the con to end. :( I sat next to Kirin and watched them auction off a bunch of stuff including Kirin's papercraft which was super popular. :D Everyone loved it! Also, I asked Akonite to give a shout out to WFS12! I hope we get the record broken this time! :) After that, I kinda decided to give up. It's late, I'd been suiting ALL damn day. Time to accept the fact the con is ending and desuit. :(
After that we went to dinner at BP together. Quite a big group again. Almost 12 people! I was rather mad because it took BP TWO FUCKING HOURS to get us in and out. We almost missed Shimi's Dead Dog Dance set. Dinner was fun but depressing at the same time. I loved it like all the other dinners, but I knew it was the last. Sunday is always full of a lil depression since that looming fact it's almost over. After dinner, we rushed back to the hotel and suited up the Dead Dog Dance. Reo had already been there dancing. After I got down there, my body told me I was done. I had suited up so much, my body was pretty much exhausted. I could barely stand. I wiggled around a little bit at the dance, but I was done. After about and hour, I went back up to the room, and put MaxCoyote away for good. :( The rest of the night was us spending time together in the room, talking and the like. Kirin decided to stay with us in our room that night due to some roommate issues.
Monday & Bodysuit:
Monday was happy, but bittersweet. We packed up, said goodbye to whoever was left and got food. It was wonderful time and I was so happy I went. The drive back was sunny! We actually got to drive back with the top open. :3 The border was easy. No issues. Despite the horror stories of others. When we got back to Razzy's place, she was super awesome. She fixed me and Skyan some awesome sammiches and we sat around and talked a while. Kinda reflected on the weekend and got all blah cause it was over. But happy. :)
VF was the first event with my new bodysuit made by Razzy. Normally the delivery was a month past VF, but Razzy was super awesome to get it done just in time! Having a fullsuit for VF made the con amazing for me. Probably made more difference then anything else when it come to fursuiting for the event. It's really hard to explain how I felt in fullsuit. It made my happy and giddy, while almost making me wanna cry from happiness. :) Being able to be in character, get hugs, and be around others who were so happy to see me and hug me made it so incredible. Everyone was so supportive of my fursuit and my character. I love interacting with everyone who decided to interact with my fursuit. Thank you so much everyone!
The suit itself worked out great! I love the digit legs. They feel big, poofy, soft and fun to walk with. I constantly would stop by those big mirrors in the hallway and look at myself like some diva! XD I couldn't help myself! I looked so awesome in the suit. It worked so great! A few lil minor things needed some fixing, but they were normal bugs for a brand new suit. Razzy did a great job with the suit. It looks and feels amazing to wear! I could not of hired a better person or friend to make it. Thank you so much! :)
Staff & Thank You:
A big thank you to convention staff for doing a great job with the con! They are one of the few young constaff in the world who's put so much effort into their job and done so well. I can't say enough about them, so I'll leave it as a great big THANK YOU and JOB WELL DONE! Also thank you to akonite for being an awesome conchair and person. He's alot of fun to be around, and it makes me kinda sad I don't live in BC. I would love to spend more time with him as a friend. I understand why so many people gravitate to him. You can tell how great a person he is by just being around him. Thank you, Akonite. :)
Thank You to ALL my friends and roomies for being such amazing people and company!
Thank you to my roomies
razzylee,
skyan, and
reograyfox! You guys were super awesome and respectful! I'm deffinatly wanna room with you all again, for VF or sooner! :) You guys are truely what made this weekend amazing in so many ways. Good friends make everything fun. :3Thank you to my special convention buddy,
kirinafa. You made VF very fun for me by spending most of your time with me and always being a fursuit buddy ready to go. I always believed in a "fursuit buddy" for conventions. It makes it fun to have someone with you when goofing around and performing in suit. It was great to spend so much time with you again after not seeing you since Everfree last year. You're like a lil sister to me, and I look forward to seeing you again. Thanks for being such a good friend. :)Thank you to
sixel for helping me with the Commission 102! You did a great job. :)Also, thanks to all my other friends and palls from around the northwest who I saw again at the con. I wish I could mention everyone one by one, but my brain is starting to fail. XD It was great to see you all this last weekend! I hope to see you all again!
This VancouFUR was amazing. Thank you for a wonderful time, Vancouver! :)
Videos:
VancouFUR 2013 Con Video by razzylee
VancouFUR '13 Fursuit Parade by xxarcticfoxxx
VancouFUR '13 Dance Compitition by unknown
VancouFUR '13 Harlem Shake
VancouFUR '13 Fursuit Games (HOUR LONG VIDEO)
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