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MFF Wrap-up (Finally, a week later)
11 years ago
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What a con! This was my first year at Midwest FurFest, and only the second time I've stayed overnight at a con hotel. MCFC this year doesn't count, yes I was there for both Saturday and Sunday, but we had to crash at a nearby friends house and the entire trip was /completely/ unplanned. :3
MFF was a much needed refresher for me. I never lose my love for this community, but being physically away from most of my furry friends can lead to an artificial dulling of my "mood". Originally I had only hoped to attend MFF, tried a few times to get rooming set up but nothing was guaranteed. My mate girlyhyena and I took a trip to Grand Rapids for some furmeets in October, and ended up making an awesome new friend while visiting a friend's house.
Meeting milesablackwolf was exactly what we needed to get our MFF plans cooking, he had room space available and definitely proved an awesome roommate all around. Miles brought so much food with him, we had a "Thanksgiving" feast on Friday night and then ate like pigs with the leftovers for the entire weekend. Funny thing is, we were keeping the food warm in half-submerged baggies in a warm CrockPot for the entire con and still managed to get less sick than lots of people... Huh.
AJ and I were only able to be there for part of the con, we pulled in at about 8PM on Friday night and had to leave at 9PM on Sunday. Couldn't take any days off work, but even with our con cut short, we were there for most of the "FUN"...
Saturday night was interesting. We had our room in the Hilton, but of course we were in the Hyatt lobby when stuff started to go down. Once things started heating up we bailed pretty quick and watch the "show" from the hallway window on the Hilton's 5th floor. We had our own little "WindowCon" where I was giving out Mountain Dew Throwback and somebody else had grabbed a box of cookies to share.
Some of our roommates hung back at the Hyatt to try and help out, so once they showed up an hour or so after us we held a "refugee camp" in our room while the Hyatt was locked down. We had (I think) 12 people in our room, all feasting on the ham and turkey we had hot. Somehow we still managed to get a respectable amount of sleep that morning...
TL;DR, MFF was awesome. Really jumpstarted my love for this community, and I'll be damned if I don't go to as many cons as possible now that I have a salary.
(Oh yeah, I meant to mention that I started a new job the day after MFF. Salary IT position, so I should have nearly guaranteed time off for cons and funds so I can buy cool things like art and fursuits. :D)
MFF was a much needed refresher for me. I never lose my love for this community, but being physically away from most of my furry friends can lead to an artificial dulling of my "mood". Originally I had only hoped to attend MFF, tried a few times to get rooming set up but nothing was guaranteed. My mate girlyhyena and I took a trip to Grand Rapids for some furmeets in October, and ended up making an awesome new friend while visiting a friend's house.
Meeting milesablackwolf was exactly what we needed to get our MFF plans cooking, he had room space available and definitely proved an awesome roommate all around. Miles brought so much food with him, we had a "Thanksgiving" feast on Friday night and then ate like pigs with the leftovers for the entire weekend. Funny thing is, we were keeping the food warm in half-submerged baggies in a warm CrockPot for the entire con and still managed to get less sick than lots of people... Huh.
AJ and I were only able to be there for part of the con, we pulled in at about 8PM on Friday night and had to leave at 9PM on Sunday. Couldn't take any days off work, but even with our con cut short, we were there for most of the "FUN"...
Saturday night was interesting. We had our room in the Hilton, but of course we were in the Hyatt lobby when stuff started to go down. Once things started heating up we bailed pretty quick and watch the "show" from the hallway window on the Hilton's 5th floor. We had our own little "WindowCon" where I was giving out Mountain Dew Throwback and somebody else had grabbed a box of cookies to share.
Some of our roommates hung back at the Hyatt to try and help out, so once they showed up an hour or so after us we held a "refugee camp" in our room while the Hyatt was locked down. We had (I think) 12 people in our room, all feasting on the ham and turkey we had hot. Somehow we still managed to get a respectable amount of sleep that morning...
TL;DR, MFF was awesome. Really jumpstarted my love for this community, and I'll be damned if I don't go to as many cons as possible now that I have a salary.
(Oh yeah, I meant to mention that I started a new job the day after MFF. Salary IT position, so I should have nearly guaranteed time off for cons and funds so I can buy cool things like art and fursuits. :D)
