I had an overall great time! Jeff did end up coming along, which made me very happy, and he had a good time too, and considers himself "partly furry" now XD (He and I had had some relationship issues last week, and I thought he was not going to attend the con after all, but we are working things out, and he made the effort to come along :D)

As I expected, it was wonderful rooming with  pumpkinskittle08, her boyfriend  kronusaeternus, and my boyfriend Jeff. Ivan was a brat towards Pumpkin's 3-month-old husky puppy Kobi, as I expected (he adores people, but doesn't want to share human attention with other dogs, so he growls to protect his space...It's been a thing I have to constantly keep in check ever since adopting him. He's only ever been friends with a handful of other dogs in his life). Kobi was adorable and fun, and quite well-behaved already. He did some usual naughty puppy things, but that's to be expected, and thankfully did nothing destructive.

Jeff, Ivan and I arrived pretty late Friday night, having stopped in Lansing to grab dinner with a friend of mine I hadn't gotten to see in over a year. As soon as we walked through the lobby doors, I saw  nukanuki and  chronsky, then I tried to register Ivan to our room while having him pulling away from me in an attempt to greet half the furry world he was seeing!

I was bummed to find out that Artist Alley didn't allow the sale of pre-made items, so the whole stock of art objects I had brought along had to stay in my car, and I didn't actually make any money at FCN :/ I'll be renewing my Etsy shop soon though, since I have finally dug through my storage unit for most of the items I used to have for sale there. Pumpkin and I also talked about registering for a dealer's table at MFF, so that might happen. I haven't yet sold any artwork at any convention I've attended...

Saturday saw Jeff, Ivan and I wandering the halls a lot, and we gave Ivan a socialization break while we checked out some of the con spaces. Jeff bought a few t-shirts, and an art print, and I bought some miscellaneous buttons, stickers, and a necklace (hurr hurr, wasn't I supposed to MAKE money at this convention? lol) Jeff and I then took a break from all the lovely furry craziness, and grabbed pizza for dinner at Aubree's, stopping at Trader Joe's and Best Buy on the way back :P
We then proceeded to get our drink on while watching Ridiculousness on TV, and eventually made our way to  sfaosttrack20's room for a fabulously boozy time with many of my closest friends (I'll edit your names in later when I'm not crunched for time before work!) :D Trax was crazy-hospitable, and very talented with his palette of liquor bottles, and I was buzzed in no time! I headed to the dance around 1:30am, and shook my tail until 2am, then found Pumpkin, and we packed our two dogs in her car and she drove us to Taco Bell for some of the most delicious food I've ever had in my intoxicated life XD

We all checked out of our room before 1pm, and Jeff, Ivan and I spent the next two hours saying goodbye to friends around the hotel.

Thank you to everyone who made FCN2013 so fantastic! And thank you for giving Ivan so much attention too; he eats it all up! If you have photos of him, please do share n.n
I hope everyone else made it home safely, and had just as good of a time! <3