This is my first time at Rainfurrest and consider it one of the big 3 furry conventions (FurtherConfusion, AnthroCon being the other two) and it’s my first convention with a suit!

Initial impressions
Registration was well run, had a good experience picking up my badge. They treat their patrons and sponsors well (I had patron) with properly administrating the perks from the get-go vs. the headscratching I got from Further Confusion.
We practically booked out the entire hotel, which was really cool and it was kind of weird to have part of the convention in the hallways of the hotel. I wonder if the people with rooms on the first floor minded the noise and traffic.

Fursuit Lounge – well run!
It was one of the better run fursuit lounges I’ve seen. The coolers were perpetually stocked with ice cold Gatorade and water and lots of fans was able to keep up with the number of suiters cooling off during all but the heaviest periods of activity during the fursuit parade and Saturday night dance.
The head tree had some sanitizing thingie-mabob for the air and addressed my concerns with people getting sick and spreading infections via the head tree which was a nice touch.

Fursuiting experience – weather’s great!
While this was my first con, I’ve suited twice at the local Prancing Skiltaire furmeet twice before. The cooler Seattle weather was wonderful! I was able to stand in the covered walkway linking the hotel to the convention space and stay out for extended periods of time greeting people as they went by.

ElevatorCon - =(
The space was nice but I have a gripe with the two low capacity elevators; more or less the only way to get up for suiters and they broke down constantly from the load. This made getting to and back more painful than it needed to be.

Fursuit experience – Think I have potential.
I seem to have a decent amount of stamina. I was able to suit for a great deal of the convention without destroying myself which was a relief. One of the best compliments I got was “You’re everywhere.” Adding the tie was a great idea and helped add some secondary motion to the character. People started calling me ‘business bird’ instead of Mordecai, and I like it! Might adopt that as Corvin’s nickname.

The downside with suiting so much was that I had zero time left for art. In the past I usually go find a group of people drawing and offer to draw in their sketchbooks or draw simple badges for fun. Was a little sad to see art get edged out that way.

I really want to do more dancing and try doing skits/get into the variety shows. If anyone wants to work with a bluejay that's a very fast learner, give me a meep!

People I’ve met
Disclaimer: If I left you out it wasn’t because I don’t like you, but I wasn’t able to remember everyone cause I met so many awesome people. Also, some of you have names that don't match up with your FA names, making it hard for me to find you. :O

 sokitwopaw  orzel  kazulgfox  frosteefox  reweth  moonshadowsuiting  raket  theparrotenthusiast  cball  sepiaa  wolfpuptk  zantal
 triggerhappysquirrel  dolph  gyrhawk  keianza  kawaburd  redclawtheotter  futcion  raptorred