Post-Con report for Midwest Furfest 2015
10 years ago
Howdy everybody! I hope y'all had a peaceful and fun Christmas!
As promised yesterday, I wanna give an account of how I experienced MFF (and my trip to the US) this year.
neonoae and I got to spend a few days together at his place before we drove to the con. The night before MFF started was actually his birthday, and we celebrated with a nice dinner. My present for him was a new smartphone. Plus, during those days and the week after MFF I got to see a lil more of Noa's college, which was pretty cool :3
Well, when we got to the Hyatt on Friday, we couldn't check in at first because the room wasn't ready yet. "No problem", we thought and headed to registration to get our con badges and then explore Artist's Alley and Dealer's Den a lil. Only downside was that I had to take my coat with me and was a little warm because of that ^.^
First shout-outs go to
cooner whom it was nice to see again and Noa and I got our first sketch commissions from. He is a very nice guy and it's always fun to talk to him, briefly as it may be cuz he's busy ^.^
Next stop was at
donryu's table for a picture. That white tiger is sure nice to talk to and we ran into him a few more times during those three days. I would love to hang out more with you, dude! Maybe next time?
Also met up with
xids whom we DEFINITELY did not hang out with often enough! What was that about? We need to see more of you, Xids!
Also ran into
stripekazama who gave us a cool bracelet with our names on. Thank you so much again for that, bro! It was great to see another European fur there. Sorry we couldn't chat more, but I hope you had fun in Artist's Alley.
When Noa and I finally wanted to check in to our room, the desk clerk told us that my credit card wasn't accepted. That was a shock, I tell you! Noa's card also hadn't enough money on it, so we faced two options: either pay in cash or don't get a room and drive back to his place every night (which is an hour away). I asked the desk clerk to try out another credit card reader, but she refused. I thought that was pretty arrogant of her and not good customer service. We tried taking out the cash from the ATM, but it didn't allow the full amount. Noa and I were pretty shaken up about it and discussed what to do. Eventually he suggested I try out my European debit card on the ATM. I had my doubts but luckily for us, it worked! So we payed for the room in cash and checked in. PHEW!
In case you are wondering: My credit card worked perfectly fine in every other instance after that! My guess is the card reader was not working properly.
I wanted to attend a few writer panels this year, but thanks to the whole ordeal with the room we missed the first three. Oh well, still attended "Erotica: Adult writing" and it was interesting, but I didn't get that many new information out of it.
The only other venue we attended was "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind", which is sort of a must-see at every MFF and we weren't disappointed.
Other furs we ran into and hung out with a few of them were
makaio (it's just great hugging him ^.^),
draftstallion2005 (it was fun chatting with you),
spyketyranno as well as
maximus-ursus,
nachuro and
hallan - the latter three we had dinner with on the last night of the con. I got to ride in Maximus' new muscle car (blue like him) and damn... that engine has an awesome acceleration, I might as well have creamed my pants! <3 <3
All in all, what I found most interesting about MFF 2015 is that it broke its attendance record again with 5606 people this year, but I still get the feeling we got to talk to fewer people and the last few years. So, I'd say it was a good con, but not the best (that's still 2014 for me).
After Noa and I got home on Monday, we spent a few more wonderful days together and went to see the new James Bond movie (I love Christoph Waltz and he didn't disappoint!) before I had to fly back to Germany.
Now I'm looking forward to next Summer when Noa will come here :3
Thanks for reading!
As promised yesterday, I wanna give an account of how I experienced MFF (and my trip to the US) this year.
neonoae and I got to spend a few days together at his place before we drove to the con. The night before MFF started was actually his birthday, and we celebrated with a nice dinner. My present for him was a new smartphone. Plus, during those days and the week after MFF I got to see a lil more of Noa's college, which was pretty cool :3Well, when we got to the Hyatt on Friday, we couldn't check in at first because the room wasn't ready yet. "No problem", we thought and headed to registration to get our con badges and then explore Artist's Alley and Dealer's Den a lil. Only downside was that I had to take my coat with me and was a little warm because of that ^.^
First shout-outs go to
cooner whom it was nice to see again and Noa and I got our first sketch commissions from. He is a very nice guy and it's always fun to talk to him, briefly as it may be cuz he's busy ^.^Next stop was at
donryu's table for a picture. That white tiger is sure nice to talk to and we ran into him a few more times during those three days. I would love to hang out more with you, dude! Maybe next time?Also met up with
xids whom we DEFINITELY did not hang out with often enough! What was that about? We need to see more of you, Xids! Also ran into
stripekazama who gave us a cool bracelet with our names on. Thank you so much again for that, bro! It was great to see another European fur there. Sorry we couldn't chat more, but I hope you had fun in Artist's Alley. When Noa and I finally wanted to check in to our room, the desk clerk told us that my credit card wasn't accepted. That was a shock, I tell you! Noa's card also hadn't enough money on it, so we faced two options: either pay in cash or don't get a room and drive back to his place every night (which is an hour away). I asked the desk clerk to try out another credit card reader, but she refused. I thought that was pretty arrogant of her and not good customer service. We tried taking out the cash from the ATM, but it didn't allow the full amount. Noa and I were pretty shaken up about it and discussed what to do. Eventually he suggested I try out my European debit card on the ATM. I had my doubts but luckily for us, it worked! So we payed for the room in cash and checked in. PHEW!
In case you are wondering: My credit card worked perfectly fine in every other instance after that! My guess is the card reader was not working properly.
I wanted to attend a few writer panels this year, but thanks to the whole ordeal with the room we missed the first three. Oh well, still attended "Erotica: Adult writing" and it was interesting, but I didn't get that many new information out of it.
The only other venue we attended was "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind", which is sort of a must-see at every MFF and we weren't disappointed.
Other furs we ran into and hung out with a few of them were
makaio (it's just great hugging him ^.^),
draftstallion2005 (it was fun chatting with you),
spyketyranno as well as
maximus-ursus,
nachuro and
hallan - the latter three we had dinner with on the last night of the con. I got to ride in Maximus' new muscle car (blue like him) and damn... that engine has an awesome acceleration, I might as well have creamed my pants! <3 <3All in all, what I found most interesting about MFF 2015 is that it broke its attendance record again with 5606 people this year, but I still get the feeling we got to talk to fewer people and the last few years. So, I'd say it was a good con, but not the best (that's still 2014 for me).
After Noa and I got home on Monday, we spent a few more wonderful days together and went to see the new James Bond movie (I love Christoph Waltz and he didn't disappoint!) before I had to fly back to Germany.
Now I'm looking forward to next Summer when Noa will come here :3
Thanks for reading!
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X.x I hope next time you may see more of the college if you like. T_T
I'm mighty glad/fortunate to think about using that card, no? ^///^;
Tiger... I'm sure EVERYONE creamed their jeans upon hearing and FEELING that mighty engine purr.
I miss you tons, Tiger. I'm thankful for every minute we had and look forward to the summer too of next year. Here's to a Happy New Year and a Positive 2016!