Okay so I went to Anthrocon 2015 and I had a blast. I'm actually surprised by how much fun I had.

I picked up  dreamselfwolfkp on Tuesday and we left on early Wednesday. It took six hours but we arrived at our Econo Lodge, which I wont be staying at next year. I'll leave it at that.

We explored Pittsburgh, getting lost and repeatedly stuck in traffic. We found the convention center where we were supposed to meet  indagare later that evening, but despite being told repeatedly to bring water, no one told us about parking. We found a place thankfully.

Indagare was eventually ready but his dinner ran so late we largely missed him. The next day (Thursday) Katie and I went to run errands until noon. Then we showed up in order to register and boy was parking hard to find. We'd show up early from now on. We got registered and got ribbons of shame that told everyone this was our first con.

After 2:00  matthiasrat showed up and we hung out with him until we went home. The next day we agreed to get up early, very early and be in line for the Dealers Den. We showed up, meeting Matt again and seeing  lurkingwolf with him. We ran up the stairs, and I ended up second in line (darn rat), but I got to spend hours playing cards, hanging out with friends and finally meeting  salvestro and  vrraven in real life.

This alone made my trip. Just the chance to hang out with people I've wanted to meet in real life for so long. It made happy, it made the exhaustion and constant running all worth while. I loved that morning just because I was having fun with all of my friends. I never get that here and I know I wont so long as I am here. But that's another story.

I also got to meet  comus, someone who's art first introduced me to TF. I also met Matthias' friend  elenakhatika, who is also a reptile fan. Really wanted to talk more to of them, but didn't get a chance for much. Too bad.

When the DD opened I took off in a run followed by my wolfdog. I ended up getting an amazing comission from  darknatasha thanks to Matthias, a badge from  kacey, pictures from  redcoatcat,  keedot (this one is going to be mailed to me) and  shinigamigirl . I'll be uploading these later but needless to say I burned through my money fast.

Also got a t-shirt, yay! Took in the panel on reptiles, it didn't impress me. The guy running it didn't know what to do in all honesty, but he was passionate and I won another badge by answering a question.

I spent Friday evening with Katie and Noir, which was awesome. Noir finally instructed me on Dungeons and Dragons, I had a blast. I can't thank him enough for taking the time to sit and explain this stuff to me.

Saturday we got there a little later, but not by much, needed to get good parking. Hung out with Noir in the morning and Salvestro in the afternoon. Watched the fursuit parade, honestly didn't really enjoy it. Maybe if I was in it but after a while I got bored watching people march by in fursuits. I did hug Matthias though in fursuit.

For dinner I spent time with Indagare and Noir, both of whom would be leaving Sunday. I ran around Pittsburgh with Katie, Indagare and a half-unsuited Noir, carrying his own head. What does it say about me that none of this feels weird? Probably that despite my best efforts, I am in fact a furry. I also hugged fursuit Noir, big for me.

Sunday Katie slept in while I joined  catholicfurries for Mass. I actually broke down weeping in the middle of Mass, just from sheer joy. I was so happy to be here and I knew for once I'd be okay going home. I know I can leave this stuff behind and move out, I can survive.

Anyway, I picked up Katie and we went to the Rodent's panel. I quite like rats, almost picked one for my fursona, and I actually got more out of this and about my fursona then from the reptile panel. I also realized I had watched next to none of the movies that other furries do. I'll rectify that later.

I got to carry Matt's box but I didn't turn into a rat (take note Lurking). Me and Katie looked around the DD some before it closed, I picked up my picture from Red Coat Cat (it'll be on here later today). We then went out and had dinner with Matthias, Salvestro and LurkingWolf. Katie and I ate expensive pizza and I got to discuss writing, furrydom, Metamor Keep, Mass and how awesome having friends is.

We went back to the convention center and Salvestro sang a song for us. That was interesting. If he remembers, I'll sing the Champagne Aria for him next year. After that it was done, AC over and another year without furries ahead of me.

Matthias said I'm going through what he did the first few times he left big furry events. If so, then eventually I'll get used to it. For now though I'm happy and sad in equal measure. If nothing else though, I'm not alone.