Here's my FWA 2013 journal.....best weekend of my life!!
12 years ago
Where do I start? This was the best con and best weekend of my life, I could not of asked for better company too! I'll start with Thursday :)
So thursday started around 5am when I woke up and started getting my stuff together to head to Laguradia airport for my flight.
picked me up about 6:30 and after a breakfast stop at Dunkin, we hit the road bound for New York. With little traffic we made it in good time to the airport, meeting up with
and
for our flight around noon. This was my first time flying, I was a little bit nervous but more excited! I took the aisle seat but spent a lot of time looking out the window taking pictures lol. It took about 1 1/2 hours to get to Atlanta airport, but it felt like 20 minutes lol. I couldn't get over the fact that I got from NY at GA in 1 1/2 hours lol. I had my suit with me but my feet were too big to take on the plane, so my good friend
took them in his car for me and they made their way down there as I flew overhead. After making our long way to baggage claim at Atlanta airport and fetching my fursuit, we made our way to the subway station to catch a train to the hotel (another first for me). I had so many firsts this weekend it was amazing! After about a 15-20 minute ride we entered downtown and the station was about a block from the hotel which was awesome. We met up with
and a friend of his and made our way up to our room on the 25th floor. We dropped off our stuff and then headed across the street top the mall for some food. Eredran and I headed for the sushi place and got some awesome bento boxes with some Ramune sodas :) We ate and headed back over to the hotel, stopping by CVS to pick up some stuff for the weekend, and after a little bit of laughter and fun, we crashed for the night to get up early for Saturday when
was to arrive.
Friday started off extremely funny, we woke up before the sunrise and noticed that the sun was rising directly over the horizon from our hotel room window. It was rising in a hurry, so I grabbed my iphone and started playing Circle of Life from the Lion King. Laughs were had and after that settled down we got ready to go and headed over to the train station. After about 20 minutes, Circuit showed up and a huge group hug was formed in the subway terminal :) Our group was all together and the weekend could begin! We all headed back over to the hotel and after a while we ventured out for some food. After the disspointment of the local Waffle House not being open yet, we walked a mile or so to the next Waffle House and pigged out lol. We walked back, past the jazz hands statue and went to go suit up :) After a while of suitting and taking pictures, and also Eredrans first ever public fursuitting adevnture, the rest of the night was hanging out and partying. We were doing shot after shot of mixed drinks, and car bomb after car bomb lol. I wasn't plastered drunk, but had enough to drink were I just completely lost my inhibitions and I think I might of acted like a fool lol. After a poorly mixed car bomb (my fault, too much guiness and not enough Baileys) I got really sick to my stomach and almost got really sick. But I had a bite to eat and after about 10 minutes of extreme burping I felt better then literally passed out for a few hours lol. I woke up and a bit after that climbed into bed the right way and fell back asleep. I was told the next morning that I was sawing some major firewood that night, I felt soooo embarrassed lol :P
Saturday started a little later than I thought it would, walked around the dealers room, commissioned some badges, bought an awesome huge timber wolf and snow leopard plushies, and also took some business cards for some future commissions. Also goign to be ordering a custom Lemonbrat hoodie in the near future, so happy about that :) A walk around artist alley was made too, I wish I had more time in there cause I would of bought all the badges lol. But I wanted to spend more time suitting and stuff. We went back to the room to suit up for the parade, and went down to the meeting room. The parade was alot of fun as they normally are, a bunch of people were shooting video and I got a lot of pictures taken of me :) After the parade ended in the ballroom, a Harlem Shake video was filmed :) We went back to the room and to rest a little bit, and Circuit crashed and fell asleep so to let her have some peace and quiet to rest up for the rave that night, I told the others that we should go suitting and let her sleep. I put on Stattik, GearPaw suitted up, and also his friend (I apologize I can't remember the name right now) suitted up as Circuit's DoomKitty for his very first experience fursuitting. We walked a couple blocks in each direction, took pictures with people outside of Hooters and HardRock Cafe. Eredran and I made our way to the rave with rave gloves and glowsticks prepped for raving, met up after a while with Circuit and OceanOtter, raved for a while then Circuit and I went and suitted up to rave in suits :) We raved for about an hour in suit, glowsticks and glowy claws glowing. We got up on the big screen a couple times and I spotted people video taping us at times lol. I had so much fun raving with Circuit and Eredran, I was having the time of my life!! The rave ended around 3am and we went back to the room and after a much needed shower climbed into bed but couldn't fall asleep cause I felt like I was still raving lol. I just layed there and talked with Circuit for a while then when our bodies calmed down we crashed.
Sunday started off with a headache, but after some Aleve it went away quickly. The first half of the day was spent getting food at Hooters, it took a little while but the food was good. My citrus jalapeno wings and spicy deep fried pickles did not agree with my empty alcohol poisoned stomach and I felt soooo horrible! But I just sucked it up and after some fun times outside with some kids and our tails, we went back to the hotel and some of us went seperate ways for a while to meet up with different people. But after a couple hours or so, we all met up again and headed over to the Georgia Aquarium for a couple hours. The sharks and fish were amazing!! The otters were so cute, especially that one that sucked her paw (group awwwwwwww!!!). We went to this dolphon show, that was imo a cheesy Pirates Of The Carribean musical with dolphins lol, but I still had a lot of fun. I always enjoy things like that, i love zoos an aquariums and can spend all day looking at the animals. After the aquarium, we went back to the hotel and threw on our swimsuits and headed to the hotels pool. After an interesting little elevator ride and a panic room, we got to the pool and swam for about an hour or so. I am not a strong swimmer, I can float and swim like doggy paddle and I figured out the way I have been swimming for years is actually the breaststroke lol. I also made myself proud by doing the backstroke across the entire pool :) I still need to work on the other swimming strokes but I think I will get the hang of it soon :) Then after the pool, we went to a local sushi bar hibachi resteraunt. Another first for me, thanks to OceanOtter for suggesting that place, the food was AMAZING!!! And also another first for me......I had Sake :) I completely forgot about that lol. On the way back, I saw the staff packing up the game room and tv's, a little bit of PCD set in cause I knew it was almost over. So after that, we went back and suitted up for another night of raving, but first made some car bombs and did a lot of shots since we had to dispose of the booze that night so it wasn't wasted. Yeah, I got a little bit drunk after about four car bombs (one double car bomb that I chugged) and maybe a dozen shots if not more :P The rave that night was by far the best night of them all, the music was amazing and I raved like I have never raved before. I raved and danced with Yoko, Eredran, and Circuit for a couple hours. Yoko disappeared at some point, then Circuit and I went back to the room and after some much needed showers fell asleep really fast cuddling a couple of the plushies I had bought :) I gave my other small Aussie Shep I had brought with me on the plane to Yoko :P I can't describe the amazingness that was Sunday, I didn't want it to end!!
Monday morning came and after a lot of packing and getting things together, we checked out of the hotel and made our way to the train station. I knew it was ending and I was holding back the tears, but I held them back like a trooper. We took the train back to the airport, got our tickets and made our way through security scanners and stuff, and met up one last time for some food. I always hate saying goodbye, and this one was very hard! After a loooong hug, Circuit made her way to her gate to catch her plane back to Baton Rouge (after a stupid layover in Dallas :/) and we headed to the tram to make our way to our gate. Our flight was delayed an hour but it went by quickly, we boarded our plane and made our way out of the nice 70 degree weather back to the ass raping cold and snow....ugh more snow. What a welcome back lol. After getting texts from everyone that they all got home safely, I climbed into bed and curled up with my wolf plush and fell asleep crying my eyes out. I woke up this morning very sore and I just felt like poop.
To everyone I missed at the con, I wanted to catch up with so many people and say hi, but I missed many of you and I am so very sorry!! I had a bunch of people who wanted ot meet me, but we never met up :/ To those who I was hanging out with and to those who I ran into and took pictures with, all of you guys are the absolute very best and I love you all!!! You are like my second family and I couldn't be happier having all of you guys in my life and I wold not trade that for anything!!! And I mean that from the bottom of my heart <<<<<<<<33333333
Now I wait for Anthrocon 2013!!!! Until then I have a NE Furbowl this coming weekend, and also an Autism Speaks walk at Uconn and possibly a Pet Fair Adoption event late May :)
These past four days were the best four days I have had in my entire life and I can only hope that the next time I get to experience this again it is as good if not better!!! And I have a feeling it will be bettter!! I'll have all of the awesome people with me again and also a brand new fursuit!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!
I'm going to go cry now cause I miss everyone!!!!
So thursday started around 5am when I woke up and started getting my stuff together to head to Laguradia airport for my flight.






Friday started off extremely funny, we woke up before the sunrise and noticed that the sun was rising directly over the horizon from our hotel room window. It was rising in a hurry, so I grabbed my iphone and started playing Circle of Life from the Lion King. Laughs were had and after that settled down we got ready to go and headed over to the train station. After about 20 minutes, Circuit showed up and a huge group hug was formed in the subway terminal :) Our group was all together and the weekend could begin! We all headed back over to the hotel and after a while we ventured out for some food. After the disspointment of the local Waffle House not being open yet, we walked a mile or so to the next Waffle House and pigged out lol. We walked back, past the jazz hands statue and went to go suit up :) After a while of suitting and taking pictures, and also Eredrans first ever public fursuitting adevnture, the rest of the night was hanging out and partying. We were doing shot after shot of mixed drinks, and car bomb after car bomb lol. I wasn't plastered drunk, but had enough to drink were I just completely lost my inhibitions and I think I might of acted like a fool lol. After a poorly mixed car bomb (my fault, too much guiness and not enough Baileys) I got really sick to my stomach and almost got really sick. But I had a bite to eat and after about 10 minutes of extreme burping I felt better then literally passed out for a few hours lol. I woke up and a bit after that climbed into bed the right way and fell back asleep. I was told the next morning that I was sawing some major firewood that night, I felt soooo embarrassed lol :P
Saturday started a little later than I thought it would, walked around the dealers room, commissioned some badges, bought an awesome huge timber wolf and snow leopard plushies, and also took some business cards for some future commissions. Also goign to be ordering a custom Lemonbrat hoodie in the near future, so happy about that :) A walk around artist alley was made too, I wish I had more time in there cause I would of bought all the badges lol. But I wanted to spend more time suitting and stuff. We went back to the room to suit up for the parade, and went down to the meeting room. The parade was alot of fun as they normally are, a bunch of people were shooting video and I got a lot of pictures taken of me :) After the parade ended in the ballroom, a Harlem Shake video was filmed :) We went back to the room and to rest a little bit, and Circuit crashed and fell asleep so to let her have some peace and quiet to rest up for the rave that night, I told the others that we should go suitting and let her sleep. I put on Stattik, GearPaw suitted up, and also his friend (I apologize I can't remember the name right now) suitted up as Circuit's DoomKitty for his very first experience fursuitting. We walked a couple blocks in each direction, took pictures with people outside of Hooters and HardRock Cafe. Eredran and I made our way to the rave with rave gloves and glowsticks prepped for raving, met up after a while with Circuit and OceanOtter, raved for a while then Circuit and I went and suitted up to rave in suits :) We raved for about an hour in suit, glowsticks and glowy claws glowing. We got up on the big screen a couple times and I spotted people video taping us at times lol. I had so much fun raving with Circuit and Eredran, I was having the time of my life!! The rave ended around 3am and we went back to the room and after a much needed shower climbed into bed but couldn't fall asleep cause I felt like I was still raving lol. I just layed there and talked with Circuit for a while then when our bodies calmed down we crashed.
Sunday started off with a headache, but after some Aleve it went away quickly. The first half of the day was spent getting food at Hooters, it took a little while but the food was good. My citrus jalapeno wings and spicy deep fried pickles did not agree with my empty alcohol poisoned stomach and I felt soooo horrible! But I just sucked it up and after some fun times outside with some kids and our tails, we went back to the hotel and some of us went seperate ways for a while to meet up with different people. But after a couple hours or so, we all met up again and headed over to the Georgia Aquarium for a couple hours. The sharks and fish were amazing!! The otters were so cute, especially that one that sucked her paw (group awwwwwwww!!!). We went to this dolphon show, that was imo a cheesy Pirates Of The Carribean musical with dolphins lol, but I still had a lot of fun. I always enjoy things like that, i love zoos an aquariums and can spend all day looking at the animals. After the aquarium, we went back to the hotel and threw on our swimsuits and headed to the hotels pool. After an interesting little elevator ride and a panic room, we got to the pool and swam for about an hour or so. I am not a strong swimmer, I can float and swim like doggy paddle and I figured out the way I have been swimming for years is actually the breaststroke lol. I also made myself proud by doing the backstroke across the entire pool :) I still need to work on the other swimming strokes but I think I will get the hang of it soon :) Then after the pool, we went to a local sushi bar hibachi resteraunt. Another first for me, thanks to OceanOtter for suggesting that place, the food was AMAZING!!! And also another first for me......I had Sake :) I completely forgot about that lol. On the way back, I saw the staff packing up the game room and tv's, a little bit of PCD set in cause I knew it was almost over. So after that, we went back and suitted up for another night of raving, but first made some car bombs and did a lot of shots since we had to dispose of the booze that night so it wasn't wasted. Yeah, I got a little bit drunk after about four car bombs (one double car bomb that I chugged) and maybe a dozen shots if not more :P The rave that night was by far the best night of them all, the music was amazing and I raved like I have never raved before. I raved and danced with Yoko, Eredran, and Circuit for a couple hours. Yoko disappeared at some point, then Circuit and I went back to the room and after some much needed showers fell asleep really fast cuddling a couple of the plushies I had bought :) I gave my other small Aussie Shep I had brought with me on the plane to Yoko :P I can't describe the amazingness that was Sunday, I didn't want it to end!!
Monday morning came and after a lot of packing and getting things together, we checked out of the hotel and made our way to the train station. I knew it was ending and I was holding back the tears, but I held them back like a trooper. We took the train back to the airport, got our tickets and made our way through security scanners and stuff, and met up one last time for some food. I always hate saying goodbye, and this one was very hard! After a loooong hug, Circuit made her way to her gate to catch her plane back to Baton Rouge (after a stupid layover in Dallas :/) and we headed to the tram to make our way to our gate. Our flight was delayed an hour but it went by quickly, we boarded our plane and made our way out of the nice 70 degree weather back to the ass raping cold and snow....ugh more snow. What a welcome back lol. After getting texts from everyone that they all got home safely, I climbed into bed and curled up with my wolf plush and fell asleep crying my eyes out. I woke up this morning very sore and I just felt like poop.
To everyone I missed at the con, I wanted to catch up with so many people and say hi, but I missed many of you and I am so very sorry!! I had a bunch of people who wanted ot meet me, but we never met up :/ To those who I was hanging out with and to those who I ran into and took pictures with, all of you guys are the absolute very best and I love you all!!! You are like my second family and I couldn't be happier having all of you guys in my life and I wold not trade that for anything!!! And I mean that from the bottom of my heart <<<<<<<<33333333
Now I wait for Anthrocon 2013!!!! Until then I have a NE Furbowl this coming weekend, and also an Autism Speaks walk at Uconn and possibly a Pet Fair Adoption event late May :)
These past four days were the best four days I have had in my entire life and I can only hope that the next time I get to experience this again it is as good if not better!!! And I have a feeling it will be bettter!! I'll have all of the awesome people with me again and also a brand new fursuit!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!
I'm going to go cry now cause I miss everyone!!!!
Expecting so much, I can't wait
Thanks so much for a great weekend!! We have to do this again, and I'm going to see what I can do to get a suit for myself of my fursona :D
Thank you for accompanying me on the plane and stuff, I don't think I could of flown alone for my first time :P