Well...I'm going to give this my best attempt. I'm going to try not to miss anyone or anything, but I honestly don't have everyone's handle here, so if you don't see it presented here - by all means help me out or correct me and I'll fix it.

I admit that I was somewhat taken a back at first when folks had expressed interest in me coming to AC - I had just really been to my first con in almost 10 years in Toronto and while that was fun, it was maybe a fifth of the size of what folks expected at AC. I'm not a crowds guy and this sounded like the biggest crowd I could possibly dream up - so I really didn't decide to put both feet in till probably 1 month before - and that was a hotel booked deliberately outside the con area.

Turns out, my fears were pretty unfounded. Yes, the con was big but I can't think of any one thing I had to wait in line for, or that I was crowded out of which is pretty awesome. In addition I through together a brunch with a bunch of my Bear and other friends online and I was awfully happy to see most of them come. Anyways, here's the best recap I can do and some links to some pictures -both of the con in general and the fursuit parade.

NOTE: If anyone has an issue with any of the fursuit or other pictures and want me to remove them, just let me know which picture and I will do so - its certainly no attempt of mine to get anyone uncomfortable or in trouble.

Friday - Flew in around 3pm or so and met my friend Rich who wanted to come up from this Hershey are and hang out for a night. He' s not a fur but he was curious and joined me in the evening. We had a hiccup as he forgot to bring Photo ID and that was almost dead in the water from the start but thank to the nice Con Folks who works with us to validate him and get him entrance.

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We met  geekwhoeatsrice  Lightning_Tiger_25 and their pal HuskyTechFurCGR pretty early on and tagged around with them for both Supper at Jimmy John's and to the Karaoke. Karaoke was interesting - the guys running it were cool but the setup was glitchy and I was left doing a whole lot of improve on my first track when it decided to cut out multiple times during my song (Black Keys - Tighten Up). I guess if I was going to get really shy and introverted that was going to be the time - but I stuck with it.

Afterwards we checked out the Whose Lion Is It Anyways panel which was pretty damn hilarious. I didn't get pulled up to improv and that was probably fine honestly because I'd had enough public exposure for one night. We called it in, around midnight-ish and went back to the hotel. It was a short night but still nice to run into somebody .

Saturday - Brunch Time! I had set up a TG meeting place to keep folks in touch who were looking to attend and I'm glad I did because we had been planning on eating at Sammy's Famous Corned Beef and I had been told to call the morning of and get the tables by the window pulled together and give final numbers. I did that , and well...the response on the other end of the line was less than enthusiastic, and it didn't sound like anything was going to be done. BIG SHOUT OUT to Ten Penny Diner for accepting a reservation for 20 furry folks on an hours notice and being awesome to deal with - you were potential lifesavers. Had a really nice crowd too:

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Here's my best attempt at attendance - again help me out if there's a icon that I'm missing:

 degiburr ,  Osogrump , Red Velvet , Mosh(?),  UrsusArtist ,  SquidHooves ,  EthanCormack ,  skarlath ,  TheBulfPup ,  tsa-la-gi ,  KaltVetur ,  Zulgrath , digiburr (Kazuko Ai) ,  xdeadlockxfan ,  FST ,  geekwhoeatsrice ,  Lightning_Tiger_25 ,  HeavyMetalBear , HMB's Cute Boyfriend (dammit I can't find the name...sorry Dude)

A notable absence was  diesel_rottie and  TorqueCub who didn't get the venue change. I feel pretty bad about that but I was able to catch up with Diesel later and I think he didn't manage to get his way around to quite a few folks and I was glad of that. I will meet the Cub sometime I hope!

Afterwards I caught up with  Degiburr and  Osogrump and crew - they know a dizzying amount of people, so it's impossible for me to keep track of all of them but I know  mdmangi ,  Certo ,  Jarvi and Mosh were there and do the tour of the Dealers Den with them. We also caught the Parade together where I decided to take pictures of the entire parade. 340 pictures later ...maybe I overdid that...anyways, for those interested:

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After wrapping that up , I joined up and spend a good amount of the rest of my day in the capable hands of  skarlath ,  EthanCormack and  TheBulfPup . I intended their Therianthropy panel and found it a very interesting presentation. I'm still not sure I am, but aspects of it appealed to things that I notice I definitely do that I associate with my Bear part.

It was time for more Karaoke in the evening where I was able to sit in with  tsa-la-gi and  KaltVetur and have a good laugh at the uhm...wide assortment of acts on display. Apparently I can sing too I've been told. So can they but I was not able to persuade them to show me on stage - next time!

I finished my night off with the last panel I attended which was Horrible Readings In Furry Fiction - that was actually a lot of fun, because that book was suitably awful ..and obsessed with Dining and Currency Exchange. I did get a shot at a section or two....I was pretty well shot after that so back to the hotel.

Sunday, I was able to catch up with  diesel_rottie and bring a peace offering of Coffee and get to sit down and chat with him for a good chunk of time and help him get his room checked out. I was glad to have the time to say hello.

Afterwards I got some more time in with various folks out of Degiburr and Osogrump 's DC Crew either wandering around the Den or up in the hotel room. Before moving my way down to the Zoo and hanging with EthanCormack , xdeadlockxfan , BoreasBear and navajo before scooting out (well scooting might not be the word, we got intercepted by two nice girls, one clearly loaded ) for pizza with EthanCormack and skarlath and handing out at their place for snuggles and food.

I got turned around on the way home, but no harm no foul, and got into the hotel really late...making the point of actually getting good sleep Monday. Maybe in retrospect I wasn't able to say good bye to a few folks because of it, but I really needed the sleep after a very busy weekend. I did get to see Finding Dory on the Monday but I was pretty well on my lonesome one I helped Lightning_Tiger_25 with his stuff.

I'm sure I missed some details in this recap but it's bloody long enough. Apologies if I missed anyone or messed up any names - it was a lot for someone who is normally a semi-social Bear. Great fun - I think this post exhausted me LOL.