Here we go again! If you missed my previous journal and tweets, I was indeed at BLFC this past weekend. So, here's another giant recap for you all. X3

Thursday

Left reeeeeaaaally early in the morning with Blue Dog, , and as part of a caravan up to Reno. We picked up along the way as well. Too many bags! One of the most cramped car rides I've ever been in, oh my god. Complete with bickering among passengers. X3 I thought I was going to go insane. We went through the mountains and passed a couple ghost towns, even accidentally drove into one thinking it was a rest stop. It was creepily quiet and stuff. XP Saw a guy in a mask walking around while we were leaving though! Glad nobody was murdered! Anywaaaay, about 12 hours later, we finally made it to the convention. It was windy, but awesome! And so big! I mean, the Grand Sierra Resort looked pretty big, since we could see it once we entered Reno, but it was biiiiig. Pretty much everything you needed was inside the resort, and if you really needed something else, there was a Wal-Mart across the street. XP It was awesome. So, we checked in, I met up with and Mahtsi, then moved my stuff into the room! Then it was lazy time for just a little bit, since reg had just opened up. But I was huuuungry, so Aki and I headed to Johnny Rocket's. Inside the resort. I totally wasn't expecting that. XP Had food, then met up with , who told us that reg was super empty, so we decided to just reg now and get it over with. There was like nobody there, so it was really fast. XP After that we explored the con space a little bit, got some free shutter glasses to be all cool, and walked around the resort. We were planning on fursuiting for the rest of the night, but Aki wanted to get his new head first, which was being worked on by . We went and checked on that a couple times, had a few drinks with , got me all happy, then got Aki's head. Then we fiiiinally went out and fursuited. X3 I was gonna meet up with since he was bowling with some friends. Unfortunately I got there pretty much right when they finished. X3 I followed them back up to there room though, to see if anything else was gonna happen that night. Got to meet and . There were so many fursuits in the room! XP It was totally awesome meeting them though. We were trying to see what was up to, since he messaged us earlier, but he was taking FOREVER to respond. He finally responded after people in the room were starting to get ready for sleep, but I figured I was awake enough to see what was going on. So, I headed up to his room, and there was still a bunch of people in there! Drunk people. XD All pretty excited to see a fursuiter come into the room. I got to meet a lot of people in the room, like and  mailbox, and it was definitely awesome. X3 I got all the hugs and cuddles in the world in that single room, oh my god. XP But it was getting really late, and it was only the first night, so it was time to turn in. Thankfully there were still people awake in my room when I got back, because I like to brush my stuff after using it and I didn't want to be doing it in the dark or something. However, both beds were taken, so I just crashed on the floor. No big deal, the hotel rooms were pretty freaking big and there were plenty of extra blankets.

Friday

Woke up later than I wanted to because the curtains made it look like perpetual night in the room. XP Oh well, wasn't too late. Had "breakfast" at Round Table Pizza, also in the resort, and checked up on Yonoa again, since he was supposed to have Aki's footpaws ready. No such luck, but we were gonna fursuit again anyway! Then I found out  elephantine had made it to the convention! Sooo I went down and greeted him in fursuit! We finally got to meet in person after all those silly skype calls. X3 I also got to meet  gazpacho and  kumagoroshi, which was such a pleasure! We hung out for a bit, then Ollie wanted to get in fursuit, so we headed back up to his room. Did that, then headed back down for more shenanigans! Met up with Aki and we went and got our fursuit headbands, which were basically the fursuit tags for the convention. X3 Then we checked out the gamer's lounge, which actually had a really nice selection of games to play. Ollie and I alternated playing Star Fox 64 in fursuit. I did absolutely terrible. XD Eventually we just stopped and walked around a bit more, then we de-suited, but not before I was dragged away by some potentially tipsy otters, Raishiin and  redclawtheotter, who wanted to record themselves "swordfighting" in fursuit with bad dragon toys. XP Before dinner we hung around the game room some more and saw that they had Typing of the Dead set up. XD I found out that night that I apparently really suck at that game. It's interesting, because I feel like I can type at a moderate pace without looking at the keyboard, but I guess it's way different from thinking about what you're going to type as opposed to seeing it on a screen, not to mention the phrases were totally random. X3 It was fun though. It was at dinner that I found out that the otter party Oven was planning had been moved to tonight at 10pm, so I was going to head over there after dinner. The others decided to tag along too! But not before hanging out a bit. X3 I found two of those LED "fountain" lights that were on the tables and stuff, and spun them on my chest like boob tassels. Ollie just about lost his shit, and we had to take a video to send to Turk. X3 The party was held in a suite, but it was still crazy crowded! The amount of booze was crazy as well, but apparently there was even more. Ollie and I volunteered to help bring stuff back up, since we had just got there anyway. Then it was booze time! Ollie made me some sweet, cranberry mixed drink of goodness, then after that  artide made this awesome green, layered drink that looked like an emerald. The only downside was all the vodka he put in was at the top, so it took me a while to drink it. XD There was a constant otter fursuit pile on the couch, which made me kinda regret not bringing mine, but I wanted booooze. Oh,  stoicwolf was there too, so I was sure to poke him and make things as uncomfortable as possible!  fuzzypaws was there too! It was great getting to see him again. Also soooo many otters, it was a nice party. Only thing was people next door or whatever were complaining about us being too loud, sooo eventually that kinda made the party dissolve. I followed Artide and Stoic back to their room and drank a little more. Since it was late, Artide offered his room for me to stay in, buuut I didn't have my contact stuff with me! Artide passed out, so I stuck with my room and just used the "extra" time to brush my stuff again. More floor sleepy time yay!

Saturday

Woke up earlier this time, but still apparently later than most people. XD Pretty much everyone I tried to get into contact with had already eaten, so I just popped into the Starbucks and grabbed a muffin to keep me going until someone wanted to have lunch or something. Finished that up, and headed back to the con space in order to attend the poi spinning panel they were having. It was a beginner's basic thing, but it was still totally cool to attend. It helped solidify what I already knew, and I was even shown some stuff that I wasn't too sure about, but was always curious about. Now I have more stuff to practice! Oh yeah, and apparently my fingers are super sensitive, since practicing poi for that hour gave me blisters. XP Oops. Worth it though. There was still some time before lunch, so I wandered around the dealer's den. There were so many eye-catching artists there! Plenty that I hadn't seen before, to the point where I had no idea who to get something from. I settled on two artists, even though I probably should have just done one XP, a badge from  meirro and another from  thayrustback. Then it was time for a quick lunch because we were running out of time before the fursuit parade! Went to the Port of Subs or whatever. X3 It was a tasty sandwich! Was able to chat with  scrimno and  pandra a little bit while I was there. Then it was fursuit photo and parade time! We all piled into a giant room for the photo. This room was absolutely massive. All the otters did their best to gather together once again, and we created the otter train for the fursuit parade. I'm sure people loved it. X3 After the parade the otter fursuiters headed to the otter panel for a little photoshoot! 12 otters made it into the photo, and I'm pretty sure there were one or two more that couldn't make it, there usually is. After that, I decided to get some photos done by the professional people at the con because why not? Oh yeah, back up a bit. Did I mention that this was designated the day I would do a fursuit marathon? Yeah, and I meant it too. All the otters dispersed after that, so I just meandered a bit, seeing if I could find anybody to pester. I played with the rubix cube blocks a bit, tossed an innertube around with some other fursuiters, and tried to balance a yarn ball on my face to pass the time. XD Then I headed into the gamer's lounge and found Ollie playing Beatmania. I pitifully attempted to play with him in fursuit, oh my gosh it was so difficult. XD I'm sure it was hilarious to watch though. lockford pulled me over to the Bubble Bobble station and we played that for a bit. I had never played a game with a joystick like that before, it was interesting. After that was the dance competition, which I wanted to actually watch for once. It was great seeing all the dancers perform, makes me wish I could do something like that. X3 After walking around a bit, I came back to the lounge to find that the Super Smash Brothers Brawl station only had four people playing on it, so I watched a bit and waited to see if a seat would free up. Eventually one did, and I was invited to play while in fursuit. XD Haha, I'll admit it took me a bit to warm up and figure out where the buttons were, since I couldn't really feel them, but after a while I started winning again. XP You can't get mad at an adorable fursuiter though! Haha, nah, they were totally awesome sports about it, especially slyknuxdragon! That was incredibly fun, and something that I had been wanting to do for a while. XD After that the dance started to pick up! So I switched over to that part of the con space and started dancing, and by "dancing" I pretty much mean flailing to the beat. But hey, it's loads of fun, especially in fursuit. Once I got a little tired, I pulled out my poi and switched to spinning that for as long as my hand could handle, heh. I think a few people dug it, and there are a few photos too. After I got bit burnt out, I found out that our room was... "occupied" so my marathon still wasn't over! I walked around some more to kill time, then meandered back into the gamer's lounge and bumped into e-w01lf. He became my distraction until lexifoxxx came by and started talking about a bunch of stuff and stories, it was actually really entertaining. X3 That killed a tremendous amount of time. XD Eventually the group split and I figured it would be alright to head back up to the room to finally take my fursuit off, heh. Just about 12 hours of fursuiting. XP With frequent breaks in the headless lounge, but I never took the entire thing off until I got back to my room. It was totally awesome. Though I can't deny that I was a bit hungry. Whoops. XP Anyway, it was still kinda "early" for Saturday night, so I kinda wandered off on my own to see if I could bump into anyone or find out if anyone was up to anything. Most people were on the party floor, but I'm coming to realize that I don't really like the "big" party scene, atleast not without someone who doesn't mind me sticking to them like glue, because that's what's going to happen with a bunch of people I don't really know around. XP I prefer smaller get-togethers with people that I already know or a few people that I can get to know. Both options have booze, but one is for more comfortable than the other! I don't know. X3 Anyway, I headed back to the dance, where the bass was craaaazy high. I don't think I've ever been to a dance where the bass rattled me that much before. It was awesome though. I was too tired to dance, so I just kinda sat around and let the music drown everything out, still kind of hoping that something would come up at the last second, heh. No such luck, and apparently I was even more tired than I thought, because even though it felt like my bones were being shaken by the music, I was still starting to doze off. XP It was cool to see Koda DJ for a bit though, I didn't know he did that. X3 Headed back up to the room after that and actually got to claim a bed, haha.

Sunday

Got up early-ish, thankfully because Oven and aetius were having breakfast at Johnny Rocket's! I got down there just in time, and funnily enough, Ollie showed up there too! He was gonna be heading out though, so I'm glad I got to say goodbye. After breakfast it was time for the fursuit games! I was excited. X3 The first game was like a ring toss but with floppy discs into baskets. My toss bounced off the rim of the three-pointer, but our team still won anyway. XP After that was a coin grabbing game which was way too hectic for me. XD I can't really run, and I'd rather not be colliding into a lot of other fursuiters. X3 Our team won that round too. Then we played a weird version of hungry, hungry hippos, I guess. XP The setup was pretty awkward, and the game totally ended up being rigged with people grabbing more stuff that they should have and taking stuff from other peoples' baskets. X3 Buuut what do you expect? XD We "lost" that time around. After that was dodgeball. Me being a giant target, I was the first one out on my team. XD I couldn't even tell that the ball had hit me. Oh well. We lost that too! The final game was musical chairs. I managed to get to the second round, but then was out the next one because I didn't end up seeing the nearby empty chair. X3 WHATEVER. The game was dragging on a bit, we I took a breather with Aki before heading back to the dealer's den to get my badges. Though only one was actually finished! Gonna have to wait for the other one. Soon hopefully. X3 After that I totally met up with my mother at the convention. Yup, she lives in Reno and I told her I was staying at the GSR. She wanted to see me, so I let her know when I was free. I greeted her in fursuit and it just about made her day. XD She was totally into all the fursuiters around, it was great. We caught up a bit, then I walked around some more, bumped into wolfpuptk, who is totally awesome! Was always a pleasure. Then after that I figured it was time to hang up fursuiting for the con. After putting stuff away, I headed back down to watch Oven, eonny, and bando37(except he wasn't old enough) gamble at the casino. X3 I didn't do any of that though! Had dinner afterwards, which consisted of a giant, delicious burrito. Then it was time to scavenge for booze! It wasn't going very well! Met up with Aki and we hit up the end of the dance, where the bass was even more crazy than the night before, and we were standing right next to the speakers. It was seriously intense. "Danced" for a bit there, even though it felt like my insides were going to melt. XD After that, mainly hung out with Aki and caffeinefree- in the room, since it was finally pretty clear. XD I had a crazy craving for a milkshake, and guess what, room service had fucking milkshakes and delivered them at like midnight to our room. It was amazing and the milkshakes were also amazing, like the perfect texture. We still didn't have any booze! But holodrom said he had extra, so we headed over to his room to partake. floe and dovne were there too! Totally wasn't expecting that. Drinks were short-lived because of how late it was, but it was cool getting to hang out for a bit. Headed back to our room and stole the bed again! Got packed and ready for tomorrow, since I was leaving kind of early-ish, and then just crashed after that.

Monday

Thankfully I got up earlier than I was originally planning, because the people I was driving with were trying to leave earlier. XP Funnily enough, I still got down to the lobby before they did, so whateverrrrrr. It gave me a chance to say goodbye to a bunch of people that passed by me, heh. Like wolfdude27! Who I forgot to mention earlier tried to give me a running hug while we were in fursuit and lost balance, bringing us both to the floor. Security yelled at us even though it was an accident! :D Yaaaay. Anyway, we all piled into the car once more and drove all the way back to San Diego. Thankfully my sanity was still intact. XP Oh! And I got to stand in the snow fall for the first time ever on the way back! We stopped at a small rest stop in the mountains and the snow really started to pick up, it was actually really cool. Didn't really interfere with the driving either, which was good. Everyone made it back in one piece and that was that!

And that would be most of what I remember from my time at the convention! More stuff than that happened, of course, but listing every single detail isn't really the point. X3 Shout outs go to:
dotx
romanpower
karzai
aryaza
And SO, SO many more people. Seriously. I think this would be the first con where I saw so many people that I couldn't keep track of all of them. Like always, if you talked to me, then I think you're totally awesome and I want to thank you for making the convention even better for me. Meeting someone is always a treasure to me, and I'm glad to know more and more people. So really, thank you.

And thank you for reading, if you made it this far. I hope it was atleast mildly entertaining for you, heh. I have a lot of fun writing these up.