So...by now I'm sure everyone's getting flooded with Furfright journals, so I'll try to keep this brief, BUT...

Wow...I'm really glad that I took the advice of my friends and made Furfright my first con. So many fantastic fursuiters, friendly people, good conversations, and friends made at this convention. Had a chance to meet Telephone, Halopromise, Crazy Joe and other well known fursuiters, and absolutely loved meeting and talking with people at the panels, in the hallways and around Cromwell.

Being the only active fur that I know about in my hometown, it was absolutely refreshing to be around so many other people who can share in this interest/passion/hobby and understand what it all means. While I do love having the opportunity to educate people who haven't encountered furries on the positive aspects of the fandom, it does get lonely at times being the only one around! Having my first con was definitely one of the highlights of my life, and further cements that becoming a fur was the right choice for me.

I missed a number of panels I wanted to attend, as well as the second fursuit parade (ack!), but also got some awesome unexpected experiences, such as hanging out with  nashida for nearly the entire con, and having a chance at being a part-time handler with both her and  sludgecrawler during the con. Had a few opportunities as a result to talk to some of the suiters in the headless lounge, all of which were lovely and interesting people, and managed to put together a pretty good list of potential makers for Blue's suit...which I hope to debut next year if all goes well!


Didn't bring home much from the dealers, only a keychain and a repair to one of my tails, but did manage to put the rest of my spending money into the charity drive, so at least it went to a good cause!

Over the coming days I'll be putting videos from the con on Youtube and photos on my FA page to share with all of you. If you have a preference at all for being linked or NOT linked from any youtube video let me know, otherwise I will try to link to those I recognize in the videos. I'm also happy to note anyone with links!

I must admit to having a bit of the post-con blues, and hope to get back to a con again as soon as I can afford to do so. Hoping to hit AC 2014, definitely going to do FF 2014, and who knows, maybe I'll hit one of the smaller regional cons next year as well.

For now, I'm still in Connecticut for the next week and a half before heading back to Idaho, so while I'm in the area if there's anyone else still in Connecticut that would like to hang out or have an impromptu fur meet or something, I'm up for it as long as it isn't TOO far from central CT.

Huge thanks to  dapperdragon for putting me up while in connecticut,  quinexe for getting me into the fandom and suggesting Furfright in the first place, and  sludgecrawler for being cool to my brother and an all around nice guy.

Special mention to Ottermom and  ralysetnedra for both attending their first con and sharing with us all what a good parent looks like.

 kazee  jesspess for awesome conversation, hugs, and laughs

 nashida for just being freaking awesome to hang out and dance with; and  felfel and  kyoubikai for the same!

Big thank you to and so many others for advice on suiting, makers, and just great conversation in general. There are so many more to mention but thank you all for making this con as awesome as it was. I can't wait for the next one!