Needed a room Wednesday as I decided to come in early but the hotel told me the Room Block was closed as of 6-10 and the room would be 449.00 + Tax for a night in a king room. Those of you who stayed there, can you imaging paying that much for a room with no solid gold commode or personal masseuse? I declined and advertised here.

Hypr contacted me and we set up for me to room in his suite for a night. It worked out well. My only regret was not getting more time with him after I could get my own room the next day. I got in earlier than he and went to Tonic for lunch and some beers. Next to me were a man and woman, obviously off work and having some kind of date. They were commenting on the furries and I offered to explain once they made eye contact and drew me into the talk like I was a non furry. I set them straight.

I explained furries were here to have sex with animals and eat babies. They were excited to hear this as it so happens they were part of a dark pagan cult no one, not even they, had ever heard of and enjoyed the same things. I think they, and their coven all bought memberships.

I met BBF who was waiting on luggage (The theme for AC was Luggage con I think). We had a few beers until the bar closed.

In the morning I moved my room stuff out of my car to the suite so I could avoid the lobby when moving between floors when I had my own room. Then Onaiwolf and Tillicom asked for a ride to Ikea for picture frames and off we went. It was a nice hour long roam in the store and we got back by noon.

At noon other friends from Seattle, Aldot and Josh arrived and we checked in at the same time, acquiring rooms with a door connecting and moved into our respective rooms.

My room consisted of Me, Xzaneth and Loriana who has a new fan name this week. I think it's Princess Prawn or something. ;3

The other room had Jack (Drunk Dave), Aldot, Josh and Skan. Soon we were drinking and preparing to venture out for badges which was not too long a wait if you pre-registered.

Somewhere in all of this were fireworks we saw from the 21st floor and more drinking, some video recording and stuff. Kind of a blur.

Highlights were:

Cheetah.De DJ set was amazing as usual!
The Parade was kinda fun to record.
Tonic visits were OK but not as great to me as it is to others.
Hanging with my close friends and seeing some of my Columbus friends come suit up in my room
Seeing my bud Jay Naylor
Seeing the Germans and Onai
Following the fursuiters Sunday who walked off to other bars to be a handler / Video recorder
Recording the news that recorded BBF as they did it.
See the news show later as they called Spikey the wolf a fox! The media never gets 100%


Lowlights were:
Security forces, either Dorsai or not, need not be so curt and rude. A few individuals make the group look bad. As for Dorsai, the obvious leaders were very open and friendly. I have mixed feelings about them so decided to take them on an individual bases. I saw more rudeness from non Dorsai though. I know they deal with some jerks but no need to take it out on everyone.

Parking - 100.00 for the weekend. yes I know the bus station was free or something. People had cars broken into, too, over there.

Hard to find people it's so big and spread out.
Hard to find a place to eat with an open table.
Fernando's is no longer owned by him. He was helping out for the con.
Fernando's does not come with a roll of toilet paper :)

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Overall the value in seeing friends was there. I always say furry cons themselves rarely have any programming worth my time. I think smaller cons that are not in a convention center are where I will go in the future. the idea that a con HAS TO GROW is wrong I think. AC is the biggest but it's also the biggest geographically and that sucks rocks.