I'm gonna try my darndest to make this concise and organized. Gonna be pretty dang hard not to ramble. So let's do this day by day.

Thursday Day 1:

Can't really call this a day really. I set out from Athens late at around 7:30 p.m. Had put in a full day of research prior to stopping by the apartment to pack. The drive was fairly mundane until I got closer to Atlanta. Though there was a lot of traffic, it was flowing well. My roommate for the weekend  LeviWolstrom had gotten their and checked in well before I did. I got there around 9:30. Took me a while to find parking. Got stuff up to the room and then registered and bumming around a bit. Getting the layout of the convention floors and seeing how many folks I could run into. Found  Rivard and chatted with him a little bit. Then it was up to the room. Ended up going to bed early from the exhaustion of the workday and the drive from Athens.

Friday Day 2:

This was a bit more eventful. My roomie Luke found a place to get a nice breakfast. It was the Corner Bakery just down Peachtree St. a block or so. It was good indeed. Then I attended the poker panel that was being held at 11:00 a.m. Why? Well because I had agreed to offer a ride up to Sandy Springs for a lunch at Genghis Grill. Thus began what I dub TrafficCon2013:P Yeah if I do this lunch trip the next time, we're using Marta. Say what you will bout it, in this instance, it would've truly been smarta:P So anyway a group of us went up there in 2 vehicles, Ole Bacon being one of em. Group consisted of  dizfoley,  huscoon,  November, and also few more of their friends. I had never been to this place before. I don't make a habit of driving in Atlanta traffic to meet up for lunch with folks I've barely just met. Only for other furries:P It was so nice though. I thoroughly enjoyed it^^ Upon returning, I picked up my awesome commissioned FWA badge from the equally awesome  Mahrkale! Glad to have finally met her in person. I crossed paths regularly with two artists I'm very fond of and met a third one that I'm becoming fond of. Those being  dingoroo,  RemyWolf, and  agent_blayze respectively. Dingo seemed to live in the Artist Alley:P Got a cute sketch commission from him and a button commission from Blayze on the last day. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Was late Friday into early Saturday that I imbibed the most. Attended Lupine Silver's room party and got to mingle with a fair crowd of furs. Mostly chatted it up more with Rivard. He's a great otter to know:3

Saturday Day 3:

Though my visits with them scattered over all the days, my focus on my local Athens fur crew will be covered here. The previous day  zip-the-fox arrived with his better fox half  LeoRenard. They're so cute together it's almost nauseating:P Yet I hung with em a fair bit and even after the con was through as they joined me for a swim this past Monday. Also hung out sporadically with  CurlyFryHusky He was the first one I saw of the group as he was working the shop Thursday eve when I registered. I can't forget  Kami_Yama Between him, Zip, and Leo, I ended up bouncing to many different rooms and meeting many different furs. Also with Kami I rekindled my long dormant flame for classic arcade fighter games in the video game room:3 Let's see...oh yes there's the ever zany  MilkBoneUnderwear Was nice to finally hug him while he was Alec or as he was known for this con Jefferson Steel...something or another. Dang 30 y/o poor memory:P:P Which brings me to the fursuit parade which Luke participated in. Got a couple of photos of him wearing Levi that I may share later on. Also got to meet  Havik and yes...I got me a  WolfPupTK hug as well^^

Sunday Day 4 The Final Day:

Don't think I could have asked for a better day. Started with a nice breakfast at Metro Cafe. I had wanted to do Corner Bakery again but I failed to realize it was Sunday and they were closed. Blayze to the rescue though. I invited her to join me and Luke for breakfast and when we learned Corner Bakery was closed, she suggested Metro Cafe. Good choice. That was a nice breakfast. We were also joined by a friend of Luke's from SC. Afterwards I packed up and took some final strolls of the convention grounds. Got artwork from Dingo and Blayze as mentioned earlier. Got to say farewell to Rivard and to  tiggy. I'd met him first time on Saturday. Never got to sit down and have a nice long talk about Tim a.k.a. Cyrus/LemonadeCoyote. It was my hope to meet him at this con but life had a different plan. Also got to come across  TriggerFox I literally almost ran into him as he was posing for pictures wearing Jack. Nice I got to shake paws with him. Didn't have a chance to chat long for me and Kami were going up to the observation deck on the 72nd floor. There were took in the view and took some photos and closed out the con in good fashion. We parted ways and then I got to my car and started for Athens around 6:30, tears already welling up in my misty eyes.