Yuuup, if you somehow missed the last journal that has been up on my page for a while, I was totally at Califur. As before, here's another con report with most of what happened through the weekend, or atleast whatever I can remember. XD Probably will be a bit long, so be forewarned.

Friday

Drove up to the convention in the morning with  tiberiuswolf, snowdog1717, and  luispbms. Car full of people and baggage! Yay! Wasn't a bad drive though, nothing like driving all the way to FC. XP Anyway, we get to the convention and  opturk and  blueotter are just finishing up printing their confirmation thingies and totally let me slip in beside them ahead of the line. Yeah! Cheating! So printed that up and then sat in the prereg line with them for way too long, but whatever. We admired the amazing signs along the hallway wall. Angry birds wrapping paper squares! Silver wrapping paper that looked so much like chrome I almost lost my mind! Daaaaamn. But yeah, funkiness aside, we all finally got our badges and poked into the Dealer's Den for a bit, scoping out all the art and stuff. No dildos this year! Needless to say Turk and I were very disappointed at that. Shuffled through the hallway a bit before bumping into Tiberius and Snowdog again, so we figured it was a good enough time to move our stuff into the hotel room. Sooo many drinks to bring. XP Somehow we managed to do it in one trip. Once settled, I furred myself out with badges, bandana, and Boba Fett. Aww yeah. Also got to see Tiberius put up the room poster, which was totally cool. Poked in Turk's room to see the difference, then headed back to the Dealer's Den. I wanted to get a badge, like always XP, so we walked around a bit. I ended up ordering a badge from  lexifoxxx and also buying a badge from  zhivagod! I told Turk that I was getting a tail and then he went tail crazy! He wanted one, so we looked at some around the den. Then he forgot that he didn't have any cash, so we went on an ATM adventure! And the only reason it was an adventure is because we didn't notice the blue tape on the wall pointing to a hidden ATM. So he gets his money, then doesn't want to get one anymore! All the "good" tails are expensive, and still not the right color. XP He gets an adorable bandana instead, which was totally cool. Then we go back to Lexi Foxxx's table and bought a bunch of button pins to split with each other! Wore those for the rest of the con. XP Then Turk took five hours to put his bandana on. Bumped into  lockford in the hall, then he followed us back into Turk's room. Lockford flopped on the bed, and then Turk and I totally made our own paper badges on hotel notepad paper. Totally authentic. Best part was how many people liked them. X3 Went and picked up my Zhivagod badge, which is mega adorable, then eventually met with Blue at the bar and had a couple drinks. Orange Crush apparently hits me pretty hard. XP We left Blue at the bar and wiggled around a bit, Turk also totally played Guitar Hero on expert while drunk and I signed up for the Brawl tournament, and decided that now would probably be a good time for dinner. We quested for people to go with us and found nobody! I think everyone was at the ice cream social or something, which I totally forgot about. XP Also probably the pet auction. I don't know. But bumped into  jfoxxsuiting and he agreed on food, so we went up with him to his room so he could take his suit off. While up there, we realized that we didn't really know where anything was. XP Sooo, we decided to order pizza, but didn't have the number. XD Went down to the front desk to get it, then called and had to give the address and such, which we didn't know off hand. Poor Jfoxx... But everything got sorted out and we totally had pizza and watched the end of the first Harry Potter movie on tv lol. Perfect! Then it was tail time! Headed to  queenkayara's room in order to get my tail, and totally high-fived  thatkrazyk9 like 10 times because she's awesome. Loooove that tail by the way, really happy with it and it is so soft. Anyway, they were going to the dance, so Turk and I went back to my room in order to put my tail on, had to borrow Turk's belt XP, and eventually headed down there with Blue and bounced around for a little bit. Then I wowed Turk with some poi stuff, once I found enough space for it. XP Blue slipped off, then eventually Turk and I left as well. It was so much fun, though. We were almost immediately flagged by  serv, who was with a very derpy . Totally drunk fursuiting. XP It was kind of adorable. We followed Serv around a bit while he made obscene gestures to people behind their backs with his tail, got caught in some random drunk people's photo, and headed back up to their room to desuit and "recharge." Buuut it turned out that nobody had alcohol, and everyone in my room was being all lame and asleep! It was like 11pm! Whatever. XP The four us headed back down, but not before be stopped by hotel staff. Guess some people were complaining about screaming and loudness, so we got a brief interrogation. Awesome. :P Found both and , they tagged along with us. We hung out and chatted around some fire pit near the pool until people started branching off. Serv and Audi mingled with a larger group of friends and Turk and I got really tired. We broke off and headed to bed for the night.

Saturday

Woke up in the morning and actually had time to get ready for once. XP So, did that and met up with Turk. We were planning on finding people to have breakfast with, but Blue drank too much, and it seemed like people were either asleep or had early breakfast. XP We walked around a bit more, found nobody to go with, so we just went back up to my room. Luckily Tiberius and Snowdog were awake at the time and agreed to go with us to have more of those amazing burritos we had last year at Wahoo's! Sooooo good. Fat otter. We got back and did more meandering! Tiberius had us try his crazy drink that had 151 in it! Waaaay too strong. I had Midori and Sprite instead. XP Sooo many fursuits around too! Turk and I then made it our goal to find some friends to bum suits off of for the night. Yup. Checked out the artists in the Artist's Alley, really like 's art style, then bumped into , who was actually getting a badge from her. XP Also got to meet , who showed an awesome animation he was working on, and . We chatted for a bit in the hall, all really friendly people. :3 But then Turk and I were totally sold on getting badges from Nicoface. XP So, we totally did! Walked around some more, poked my clone in the Dealer's Den, then eventually wandered back and got Turk's badge. Which is sooo grood. Great and good. We were thinking of things to do while waiting for mine, then bumped into a fursuiter called Shadow Puppy, I think XP, who was totally stoked about the idea of drinking. So he agreed to go along with a drinking adventure, as in we piled into his truck and headed off to find a liquor store! Turk bought something called 99 Bananas and also got some 7-up. Totally drove past a crazy looking car accident on the way back. Ambulances, fire trucks, police, everything. It was pretty serious... Dunno what happened though. Back at Turk's room, we busted out the 99 Bananas and totally had some awesome drank. Strong, but doesn't taste strong, my favorite. XP Broke off from Shadow and went to go get my badge, which was so much more awesome than I thought it would be. I love it. We were alone again, so we went looking for people! Also Turk wanted to film stuff. We found Lockford again and filmed him! Yeah! Then he took the camera and we eventually just ended up back in Turk's room. XP We decided to polish off the rest of the 99 Bananas, which may or may not have been a good thing. XD Wiggly otters again! We bumbled around downstairs and found and , who were actually heading back to their room in order to drink. XP So, naturally, we followed them! Oh man, kind of wish I had went sooner, Sammichez made an amazing margarita and some other amazing coconut smoothie alcohol drink thing that tasted like samoas. Drunk otters now. XP I was totally hugging my tail like a derp. Yeaaaaah! We broke off and then Blue did a crazy thing and left us with bar money. XD Turk ordered two tall Orange Crushes. You can guess how this is going to turn out. We totally had drunk talk about fursuits, art, art styles, and commissions. Was kind of cool. XP Then we luckily bumped into and , it was totally time for room party with Cards Against Humanity! There was also pizza and more tasty drinks to be had. Longest buzz/drunk run I've ever had. XP Also got to meet, and play the game with, yuniwolfsky, rummycat, tribalwolffurry(except I already know him, derp), callmeking, and Jinx(who I don't know on FA D:)! Was so much fun, I just wish we could play longer, since I was having a blast. People had events and dances to go to, so things came to a close. Turk and I then went and acted drunk on people for most of the night. It was great. Totally missed an apparent room party in my room and found Tiberius by himself. We all talked for a bit in the room, trying to sober up a bit before committing to sleep. Sleep eventually did come, sooooo tired. XP Oh, and needless to say Turk and I failed in our initial goal for the day. XP

Sunday

Bleeeh, vice's phone kept going off in the morning. Really awesome. Woke up with a very small, creeping headache, which I had felt the night before. I was going to drink some water between drinks the other night to fight it, but Turk said nooooope! Oh well, I think it was mainly because I was really hungry, actually. XP Turk had a total hangover though! Whoops! Anyway, found out that everyone was trying to contact me for breakfast XP, my phone was away from me to charge. Thankfully it wasn't too long and they waited. We then totally went to Wahoo's again because we could and it's amazing. Got back in time to pull our stuff out of the room before checkout. Turk took his belt back though because he had to leave soonish, so no more tail for me. D: Oh well, got everything in the car and then did laps around the con a bit. Then it was definitely time for the Super Smash Brothers Brawl tournament! Turk and Blue were able to stay and watch. Gotta admit I was a little anxious, can't help it. XP However, due to time restrictions, the tournament ended up being free-for-all style, single elimination, AND there was an odd number of participants. XP So yeah, some people had to fight in actual free-for-alls and some did not. XD First match for me was against only one other person. XP I believe I caught him off guard and kind of destroyed him as a result. Round two was only a three way instead of four, and was a bit trickier, but I still pulled through. Last match was one on one again. The player was good, but, again, I don't think he was quite prepared. XP He also lost a stock in a stupid way, which I know can drain morale a bit if you can't catch up in time. I used that though and took the final win, I still say it was a good match. Supposedly people were recording and now I want to see it. XD Anyway, I didn't know there were prizes. XP The guy hosting the tournament told me that I could take one of each of the different items they were selling in the game room, since they needed to pack up and they still had loads of stuff left over. XD So I got a Spiderman shirt, a temporary tattoo for some game I've never heard of, a poster for a new game I haven't seen, a gigantic vinyl poster of Hitman(seriously, not even joking, thing's huge, dunno if it'll even fit the height of my wall), and the Xena Warrior Playstation game because boobies, and I didn't want to keep everyone waiting. XD That was great fun though, both watching and playing. It's been forever since I've played in a crowd like that, with all the laughing, cheering, and WTFs. I especially like people's reactions to me playing as ROB. XP Was loads of fun, glad I could participate, though I wouldn't be surprised if a few others despised me for it. XD Anyway, finished up with just enough time for Turk and Blue to get ready for their shuttle to the airport. It was going to be a few minutes, so I put my prizes in the car and we hung out for a bit before Turk had to leave forever again! Nuuuuu! Oh well, until next time. Then Tiberius, Snowdog, MrWolf, and I went to the panel asking if furries really do ruin everything. It was funny because that was the first and only panel I went to the entire con. XP Was kind of interesting, I suppose. A time killer, anyway. I was kind of planning on derping around the con space for the remainder of the day until things completely died down, but Tiberius and Snowdog had errands to run! Lame! Oh well, looked like quite a few people were leaving early anyway, but managed to say goodbye to a fair amount of people before heading off.

As always, bonus shoutouts for people I didn't fit into the journal go to:
simboku
raket
subtlewing
wolftheotter
sexybuizel
arcadiusjsilvermane
flinch
And many more, of course! Those are only a few. X3 If you talked to me, you're awesome in my book. I always love meeting new people. And I saw quite a few faces this convention, it was really cool. Also, thanks a lot to Tiberius for letting me stay in his room. :3

Overall, this con was a total blast, just like I thought it would be. I know some people don't always enjoy Califur because it's kind of a small con and a short weekend(not many events), but I say to hell with that! I like Califur because I get to hang out with all my friends for an entire weekend, we found our own things to do and had an awesome time doing them. Don't need no events for me to have a good time. Nope. I'm easy like that, and I'm really glad I could go to Califur again. Totally worth it. You'll see me there again next year.

And, of course, here's my obligatory congratulatory message to anyone who managed to read all the way down here. Like always, I hope it was atleast mildly entertaining to read through. XP Was a good time experiencing it, and a fun time recollecting on it.