So Furlaxation is wrapping up, or pretty much wrapped up lol. I am one of a handful of the people staying until tomorrow. Most people left early this morning, not even bothering to stay for Sunday. I roomed with my amazing friends tikikata, lordfenrir, candythecane and hubby katalist.

Friday

Left at 5:30 am with Fen and Tiki for Furlaxation, had a nice breakfast and car drive. Got to the convention and registration was in some random hotel room instead of the lobby. Interesting? And one computer was down and being worked on, out of two total computers. Not too bad then, but hope they got it fixed before it got 'busy'. Artist Alley hours were posted in many places, all different times. Turns out it was 24 hours again despite what the website said, but no real start time so the three of us just went in and set up. knottyascot joined us with another artist, Kiki. That was it for artists on Friday. Many empty free tables abound.

Checked out Dealers Den and they were the same as last year, and many empty tables. The books that I wanted to buy ((New Out of Position and others)) were not even in stock. I talked to the vendor to look at a lot of what he did have and left sad and disappointed even though there are many books I do want! "Oh, I didn't refill the stock before this con." Well you just lost sales. Nothing very exciting for me personally.

We finally got into the room and the toilet didn't flush well and later clogged that night. The girls bathroom downstairs two toilets barely worked and the large stall had the door ripped off and against a wall. And the pool was fricken closed! No hottub or pool for us. The whole convention smelled like mold as well. No sales on Friday for any of our group. We had a great dinner on Friday at Teejay's though and recommend to anyone near Columbus area.

Then Katalist, Tiki and Candy went suiting, it was Candy's first time! And we walked around the convention and went to the game room where they played Rock Band in suit.

Saturday

Sold five commissions, the lowest I have ever had at a convention. Thank you so much to those that commissioned me! Spent the morning doing giftart and art trades before having a commission.

Got to see our artist friend Fig! He stopped by in the evening. One of my convention highlights of amazingness is that Iiiix brought me an autographed Weird Al flag that is from a Weird Al convention, I was so floored and shocked and happy, words cannot describe how grateful I am. Definitely going to hand that up!

Left Artist Alley and had Wendy's for dinner, then waited for Candy's husband and then went to the 16-bit bar that was amazingly fun and super packed. It is a bar full of arcade games that you can play for free if you get a drink. Had three amazing drinks, one of which was blue and had a pineapple and I dropped the pineapple on the floor playing pin ball! So sad, but I got to reconnect with a highschool friend there that I was never expecting to see. It was great! I got to play Gorf and was pretty good! Never heard of it!

Sunday

Slept in some because there was still no threat of not getting an artist alley table at all. Went in and got a table no problem even thought it was later. More artists were in the room, but no one was getting many sales. I finished the few commissions I did have and got them done before they left early, like 2 or 3. Not much promising to keep people there. Later they were having issues with the charity auction, nobody was bidding on anything! Even 2 the Ranting Gryphon came in the Artist Alley and talked to a few about it. Very sad.

I did get to go on my first "suit outing" as Sam Coyote for the closing ceremonies, it was a good little practice for suiting and I had fun! Kept hitting my own nose though lol not knowing where it was. Closing ceremonies did not release any numbers at all. The charity computers were "down" so they could not give the tally for the charity, which we later found out it was $200 total. Attendance was 188. Last years attendance was 384 and first year was 250. So the convention did even worse that its first year. Also throughout the entire convention there were long periods of time that no one was checking badges, so any hotel customers could go in artist alley or the dance. A mom brought here little girl into the Alley asking about nearby food locations and the girl looked horrified at the site of a fursuiter waving at her. It was hilarious because she looked like a grumpy spoiled girl anyways, lol.

For dinner Tiki, Fen, Katalist and I went do BWW and it was amazing! Great dinner! Then we went to Target and looked around and are now chilling in the hotel room because we can't even go to the hot tub... hm. The convention was fun, but there were barely any staff. Artist Alley had no staff and was run by us artists the whole time. Even convention attendees were asking where everyone was. It was like a furmeet that you had to pay to attend more than a convention.

It was great fun with friends and I do not regret going in any way, but I will not likely be back next year unless some serious changes are made. Here's to Fur Reality, my next and well run convention.