Alright, so I'm lousy at journals and I'm late to the post con party, but this year's convention was a blast.

I adored how friendly everyone was, it made it that much more worth it to be there....though I've been to the con every year since it's beginning and will be there next year.

Thursday was when  Naruloth arrived from her two day drive from Michigan to pick me up for the convention. The drive for her had a bit of a detour, but after a few phone calls and looking at maps on my part, we got everything all set. We went to lunch at a local diner (The Penn Queen <3) before toodling our way via toy stores up to the convention...by way of the backroads since the GPS in her car seemed to be Glados' cousin.

Friday, Naru/Catvette made her way to the "i need my badge" line while I discovered where my table was...in the middle, near the front next to  Cooper and  Strype who were two very awesome people, and behind  KV1nn4 and  missmab two very fabu people that I hadn't seen in nearly a decade. Also got a hug from  Daigo that morning.

After the dealer's room closed, Naru and I were hungry and decided to make our way to Tiffany's instead of going to opening ceremony and also had wanted to hit up the Build-a-Bear since we wanted the ponies. Tiffany's has some of the best mozzerella sticks (triangles) that I've ever had, and there was just so much left over that we made our way back to the hotel with food and went into the Zoo in search for hungry furs (gave it to a pair of lovely ladies.) The manager of that buildabear was awesome, shoving her employee to the side when she heard that Naru and I were pony fans and insisted on stuffing our ponies herself. She had even hand stitched the back of my rainbow dash when she was not satisfied with how she was closing....so Wow. That is an amazing person.

Went back to the hotel for the Zombieland Equesetria panel run by  MajikCraft with our ponies and Spike. That panel was an absolute blast and worth going to...especially with Scootaloo wielding an axe wielding Spike. Anything else would be spoilers. You had to be there.

Saturday felt like a whirlwind. I got to walk around the Dealer's room and had many a conversation, got to see the ever so awesome  Gideon as well as chat with  maxblackrabbit about Transformers (he had MP Soundwave on the table and it was glorious), Korra and things like that. Max is definitely a sweet guy. Wandered by  pmoss and waved to her as well.

When the dealer's room closed, I made my way to the Pool party where Naru was already waiting since she had gone to another one of Vinyl's panels. The infamous "Soon" picture was taken there...of which we only discovered that on Sunday when we looked through the tweets.

Went to the auction where I had two pieces in (a pikachu that went for $25 and a blue pokemon that went for ???) before needing to leave for Gideon's panel. Whenever Gideon has that panel, I can't help but go because it always inspires me during to draw something...also enjoy seeing the transformers pictures that he puts into the slide show.

Don't remember if we went to the zoo afterwards.

Sunday was the day of the need of chai...which Naru got for me from a nearby starbucks. I don't know what it is about a bowl filled with eyeballs that makes people wanna just play with them in the bowl? Anyways, it was fun watching them play.

Closing ceremonies was rather sweet, and included someone proposing to another as well as auction part two where Dragoneer and Squiggles bought the newly engaged couple a special boardgame. My favorite part of closing ceremonies was when the NJSPCA was told that they had raised a thousand on their own and in total with the con, there was $8,400. Being the awesome con that it was, the entire room was asked if we could make it go over 9,000...of which, it seemed like /everyone/ stood up, lined up to donate extra to get it over 9,000. When the final total of $10,500 was told, it seemed like there was not a dry eye, especially not from Legal Eagle.

After that, it was the hunt for food, where Naru and I found this hole in the wall mexican restaurant where the food was wonderful but we got looks of "What the hell are you two doing in /here?!/" Then we went back to have some relaxation time in the Zoo, hanging out with Mab and KV1nn4's table.

Monday was a bittersweet day where we had to scramble about to get the car loaded and to the point where KV1nn4 was able to fit as well (sorry, i had a ton of stuff and then the ponies) but we managed. Glados' cousin took us around the backroads where we got to see many lovely towns and a rite aid where we stopped for a bit. Got to the airport with plenty of time...but the terminal that we were in did not have food, so we walked to the next terminal (sorry Naru and Kev >_<) where we found the Chili's! Food was great as was the dessert...which we were fighting over at one point X3 Hugs were given when it was time to watch her go into the gate.

Naru drove me home before going on her journey back to Michigan.

It was a sweet weekend, and wish it could've lasted longer. And if I've forgotten anyone, i'm sorry, there's just so many awesome people at the con.