RF 2014 Retrospective
11 years ago
So, RF came and went. Gonna go light on the pre-trip (Sunday-Wednesday) details and dive into the meat. :P
Monday: Through twitter, found that a certain lime fox dog thing (@limefoxdog :P) was wandering around downtown Seattle, so met up with him and did touristy stuff together, which later added on a third person (@zanzanwulf) for hanging around on the 17th floor of a skyscraper. For those that actually do care about the tourist stuff: Pirozhky Pirozhky is delicious. Go visit them if you're around Pike Place.
Tuesday: Movement to the con hotel. Voluntold to go help with moving stuff out of storage lockers for RF set-up. Sushi, Bevmo, and Winco.
Wednesday: Be wary of which direction your bus takes. Ended up burning about an hour going in the wrong direction. Found myself in West Seattle. Did not want. Escaped to Downtown Seattle for Lunchbox Labs. Met up with Arcas for dinner much later on at night. Lesson to be learned: only go downtown once on any day from the con hotel. Great way to burn 4-5 hours in transit. @.@
Thursday: Lunchbox Labs, redux. This time in Bellevue with tugsie tornewuff scritchwuff. Which was then followed by a tour of Valve. Tugs had managed to secure 4 spots for a tour of the Valve HQ. Saw some neat stuff. Also, can confirm that HL3 will be released around this time next year. ;) Later, met up with trippytiger and bluefirejaguar for dinner.
Friday: Umi Sake House with tornewuff synicism taz_cat1 foxlord limefoxdog trippytiger. Delicious Delicious sushi and amazing sake. Now if only it didn't have such a ridiculous price tag attached to it. ;)
Saturday: Mango Thai with zoeriko koda_wolf hawkfeather. Also worth a visit. Unlike all the dumb thai restaurants in Vancouver, this one has the option of sticky rice. :D I also jumped into @wuff_paws's plush wolf suit. So fun, but so hot. :X
Sunday: 13 Coins with wuff_paws and kojakwolf. Pizza later with wuff_pup kojakwolf and @stompie_pdx, along with his cub. A really low-key day, probably because of the realization that the con was ending.
Monday: Trip home. Lounged about the hotel for a couple hours, watching the con slowly shrink down in size, before heading off downtown/U-district to have lunch/touristy stuff. U:don is a delicious place for lunch. Got turned onto them a couple months back by abbeyjunction. Then met up with kotanucheetah to show him around Pike Place. Yes, a tourist showing another tourist around. ;) More pirozhky was had, visited first Starbucks, then said goodbye and went to board my train.
And then there's a whole bunch of stuff I don't really know where to put cause I don't recall exactly when it happened:
Pre-emptive-I'm-sorry-if-I-don't-recall-everybody: Was fun to see a whole bunch of new and old faces! lbburr raizstarwind kiguwah rathalos1 lordblooroo jrasz lilchukun circaroo redbenjie toastcoyote rainierjaguar mediarz loki_pup adilor18 toranin sudzpuppy brightondingo shrivir shadowsnowleopard thebouncyjoey crinklygriz drakedasheep charmhusky mokahusky and god knows how many others I'm forgetting.
Thanks to my host for the first couple days: tuxedokitteh
(to the best of my ability, these are all current twitter handles.)
Monday: Through twitter, found that a certain lime fox dog thing (@limefoxdog :P) was wandering around downtown Seattle, so met up with him and did touristy stuff together, which later added on a third person (@zanzanwulf) for hanging around on the 17th floor of a skyscraper. For those that actually do care about the tourist stuff: Pirozhky Pirozhky is delicious. Go visit them if you're around Pike Place.
Tuesday: Movement to the con hotel. Voluntold to go help with moving stuff out of storage lockers for RF set-up. Sushi, Bevmo, and Winco.
Wednesday: Be wary of which direction your bus takes. Ended up burning about an hour going in the wrong direction. Found myself in West Seattle. Did not want. Escaped to Downtown Seattle for Lunchbox Labs. Met up with Arcas for dinner much later on at night. Lesson to be learned: only go downtown once on any day from the con hotel. Great way to burn 4-5 hours in transit. @.@
Thursday: Lunchbox Labs, redux. This time in Bellevue with tugsie tornewuff scritchwuff. Which was then followed by a tour of Valve. Tugs had managed to secure 4 spots for a tour of the Valve HQ. Saw some neat stuff. Also, can confirm that HL3 will be released around this time next year. ;) Later, met up with trippytiger and bluefirejaguar for dinner.
Friday: Umi Sake House with tornewuff synicism taz_cat1 foxlord limefoxdog trippytiger. Delicious Delicious sushi and amazing sake. Now if only it didn't have such a ridiculous price tag attached to it. ;)
Saturday: Mango Thai with zoeriko koda_wolf hawkfeather. Also worth a visit. Unlike all the dumb thai restaurants in Vancouver, this one has the option of sticky rice. :D I also jumped into @wuff_paws's plush wolf suit. So fun, but so hot. :X
Sunday: 13 Coins with wuff_paws and kojakwolf. Pizza later with wuff_pup kojakwolf and @stompie_pdx, along with his cub. A really low-key day, probably because of the realization that the con was ending.
Monday: Trip home. Lounged about the hotel for a couple hours, watching the con slowly shrink down in size, before heading off downtown/U-district to have lunch/touristy stuff. U:don is a delicious place for lunch. Got turned onto them a couple months back by abbeyjunction. Then met up with kotanucheetah to show him around Pike Place. Yes, a tourist showing another tourist around. ;) More pirozhky was had, visited first Starbucks, then said goodbye and went to board my train.
And then there's a whole bunch of stuff I don't really know where to put cause I don't recall exactly when it happened:
Pre-emptive-I'm-sorry-if-I-don't-recall-everybody: Was fun to see a whole bunch of new and old faces! lbburr raizstarwind kiguwah rathalos1 lordblooroo jrasz lilchukun circaroo redbenjie toastcoyote rainierjaguar mediarz loki_pup adilor18 toranin sudzpuppy brightondingo shrivir shadowsnowleopard thebouncyjoey crinklygriz drakedasheep charmhusky mokahusky and god knows how many others I'm forgetting.
Thanks to my host for the first couple days: tuxedokitteh
(to the best of my ability, these are all current twitter handles.)
synicism
~synicism
Hee hee so you spent all of RF eating? :)
Accophox
~accophox
OP
Yes. Lots of food. XD Hard to pinpoint the in-between though. ;)
Wen
~wen
It was nice meeting you! :D
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