I'm sitting at the airport, mostly relaxed, anxious to get back to Washington cold air, and I have Anthrocon 2013 behind me. I don't want to leave... I felt like a piece of cloth caught to Velcro when I tore myself away from the streets of Pittsburgh, but, as the cliche goes, all good things must come to an end.

When I attended Anthrocon 2010, I had a subpar time. It was my first time fursuiting in a fursuit that didn't properly fit me, I was in the hotel furthest away from the convention center, there was nobody else aside from Taze in my room, I knew absolutely nobody, and it was my first time visiting the east coast. Though I believe it to be nigh impossible to have a completely negative experience at a con, Anthrocon 2010 served to exemplify that it doesn't always work out super well. This Anthrocon, however, bent AC 2010 over and fucked it up the ass without lube. And that was a far more comfortable experience than that last sentence may have implied.

(While I'm thinking about it, quick shoutout to Bunnyboi Lube's Alvcard, who I met for the first time at this con. He's a super nice guy, and I bought some Otterboi Lube from him. I was pretty impressed at how it felt, and I look forward to trying some on my actual penis!)

Our initial flight from Seatac to Houston was delayed by a half hour, which was exactly enough time to make us miss our connecting flight from Houston to Pittsburgh. We were booked on a flight later that day and ended up making it into Pittsburgh 6 hours behind schedule. That fucking sucked, and it essentially kept me from registering on the first day, AND kept me from attending the first night's dance, but eh, it worked out well enough.

After a relatively painless check-in at the Omni, we got into our room and was pleasantly surprised at how spacious it was. I may actually stay at the Omni in future years I attend AC, even though it's further from the convention center. Not only are the rooms better but there's no waiting for the elevators, which is important for a suiter. My roommates for the con were Taze, Lunostophiles and IceKitsune. I had a wonderful time with both, but I wish I could've spent more time with Lu.

Not much happened on the first day. I reacquainted myself with the area and hotels and did some fursuiting. Though Fernandos was good, it was ninety degrees inside on Thursday. I practically died. >_< I couldn't go to the dance or buy alcohol (since it was the holiday) so I just chilled with the roomies for the night.

Friday was when shit started happening! I met PatCat, Frosty, Cecil, Alma and Kilroy and also had my Pokephile Party, which was a very surprising success! Not only did a couple relatively known people attend my party, but it drew in about 20 attendees. I also managed to introduce like... everyone there to poppers, which seemed to be enjoyed. XD I also did a lot more fursuiting and met some awesome people. I wanted to extend a sincere apology to those who were expecting it to be in a suite, and for alcohol to be served. Plans... had to be changed.

The rest of the con was a total blur, but here are some highlights: I actually suited on Sunday for a grand total of six hours, which is longer than I'd ever done before. I felt accomplished that I'd done it, and I hope to use this as a stepping stone to suit for even longer. Water was very much my friend during this, as was the headless lounge. While I was there I tried to find fursuit tag #196... Espeon's Pokedex number. Never did end up finding it but maybe it'll turn up some day.

Saturday night, there was a lot of Digimon, Flareon cuddles, and hilarious YouTube videos. Sunday brought more of the same, but with Deretto and Alvcard hanging out too.

OH MY GOD WE SET A GUINESS WORLD RECORD YOU GUYS. <3 1300 fucking fursuits. That's crazy awesome!

This journal will probably be edited more as I think of more stuff to add, but goddamn, AC this year was awesome. There's a small possibility I can return next year, but I wouldn't count on it happening. It was awesome but crazy fucking expensive.

Thank you to everyone who made this con amazing. I love all of you. <3