Otakon was a blast!
=D This is a huge post. This is a post for memories though. AS such i could care less if people read it. In fact you people can all bugger off.
OTakon was awesome. I'm glad i went. Letsee if i can retell all of the events. Starting with thursday.
Thursday: I woke up in my sisters old bed. My sister had left for college the day earlier.. i didnt get to see her =(. Anyways i woke up and headed for my friend Ians house. When i arrived. i greeted everyone, Ian, Kyle, Jordan, Amber, and ian's mom patty and it was time to packup and leave for the con. The trip there was long but i had my ipod and my DS. I mainly chatted with everyone about various things and just generally had a good time. Its great to meet friends you havent hung out with for a while and feel like you still belong. =) Anyways we arrived at our destination, the metro station at Owings mills, kyle parked and we got on the train and headed for the con. Except for Ian's mom, shes indispensable but she doesnt go to the con. Anyways we arrive to the con really early( 5 hours before badge pickup) and we get a spot near the front of the line. The people in the front were crazy though... you could tell they spent the night. So we waited in line for 5 hours me listening to music, Kyle playing metroid, Ian napping on the street, Jordan playing something, and amber knitting. The line got huge fast and the sun beat down on us all. luckily we had brought umbrellas but even then there were a few casualties among us. So after getting our badges for the convention we headed for Ians dad's house to get to our motel and maybe get something to eat.
Gruelling walk in the sun towards his house mind you. I was pushing Ian's wheelchair too. after getting there we piled into ron(ian's dad)'s van. From now on all our rides are crowded and hot. keep this in mind. We headed for the Dead End pub. They make delicious cream of crab. DELICIOUS. the stuff is to die for. So we ate there while we waited for ians mom to pick us up. We waited hours for her... otakon gave us our badges early. Anyways when she finally came we were all dead tired. We were all ready to go to the inn that ian reserved. After a longer drive than any of us expected(grr ian..) we finally arrived at the Welcome Inn...motel?!(Ian you idiot!) Oh well lets just get inside. worst motel ever. air conditioning didnt work. bathroom door was a sliding door that didnt shut all the way. Beds were shoddy. did i mention the AC didnt work?!(Ian will never again reserve sleeping places for us) =O soo hot. We got into a fight because patty thought i broke the thermostat cuz i was playing with it. I did not break that POS thing and there was never a protective case on it. I was too hot to not get angry though. Eventually we slept in that horrible muggy room.
Friday: First official day of Otakon. WE woke up. Each got showers. Then we all got the best news ever. Patty talked to her mom and arranged for us all to stay over there. =D. Before we left for there though we had to get our money back from the motel people. =/ I'm bad at complaining. Luckily my friends mom is VERY GOOD at complaining. Needless to say we got our money back. We went to get breakfast next. Awesome diner. Eggs were delicious. Service was hot. she was really nice too. ;)
aside: i cant understand it. My friends made a lot of references to me being a stud and good with the ladies during this trip. i dont know why this was. I've never thought of myself as good with women. It was a little irritating really. hmm
Anyways we ate then we waited for ians mom to get back from taking stuff to our new place. people stared at amber. I shook my fists at people. We waited like kings. Patty arrived, we piled in, headed for otakon.
Otakon is great. Exotic costumes everywhere. Like minded people everywhere. Everyone loves anime and it shows. Friends made it awesome though. We go to the dealers room first. I buy a box set right at the start. Everyone buys something too. Afterwards we go to see Steamboy. Great movie. Afterwards our group sortof fell apart.
Aside: See our group is split up for a good portion of the con. At first i'm weary of this because of how things went down at the shore. However our group can handle it. that makes me happy =).
Anyways by this point we were all splitting up. I went to see the Royal martial arts show. but the show wasnt showing so instead i looked for ian. WEll me and kyle did because we met up. Irresponsible captain taylor was where he was at. Afterwards we all got together went to BK and then broke up again. Chicken fries are great. Me and ian went to see some Bleach then friday night parodies. Jordan, Amber and kyle went to the art room i think(i didnt get to go to the art room this time=( ) Friday night parodies were horrible. we cut out early to get seated for the AMV Contest.
The ballroom was awesome. So many people were on the DS and were sharing games! the amv contest also started early. Anyways the AMVs themseelve kindof sucked this year. As was evident from the responses they got on pictochat =D. Afterwards we all went to see Bible Black. Thats a hentai. watching hentai in front of 100+ people is great.
Afterwards we all went to grandma's house and slept. Her place was awesome. It had a/c! mmmm. Quietly we entered and quietly we slept.
Saturday: Woke up. got my shower. Greeted Ian's Grandma. Then we had a glorious breakfast! Scrambled eggs with cheese and tatertots and sausage mmmm. After eating we had to wait for Ian to finish his costume for the con... Ians a bastard. Oh well we played Advance wars during this time. Advance Wars 2 FTW! After hours of just sitting around he finally finished a crappy ilpalazo. Meanwhile kyle put on his Tekkaman blade costume. AWESOME costume. i shouldve got a picture. Everyone else at the con did =D. Anyways we headed downstairs for the con. Car wouldnt start. For the remainder of this trip Patty's car would not start. We had to get someone to jump us every time. =( poor patty.
aside: my friends are losers. I'm a loser too. i feel at home with my loser friends. =)
After getting the boss-man to jump us we headed for the con very late. Kyle missed his show. =(. We got there i saw an episode of ah my goddess then i headed to the dealers room where kyle jordan and amber were at. I headed there to buy a gundam so that i could fulfill the.... GUNDAM PACT! Gundam pact fulfilling was great. i got the awesome mobile suit i've always wanted. the ms-07 z'gokk. Kyle was getting his picture taken during the building of our mechs. Then a camera crew came and filmed our group. Always during the building of gundams... i do not understand why. Anyways apparently we were on MTV2 one day. well kyle and jordan were anyways. Anyways after that we headed to see the MAsquerade!
The masquerade was pretty good this year. There was a bit too much naruto but other than that. funny skits. Talking to people on the DS was fun during the seating also. AFter the masquerade we all headed to see the gameshow. I didnt catch much of it actually... i was playing advance wars.. it was good from what i heard though. After the gameshow La Blue Girl. Except by this point i was dead tired and i had trouble staying up. heheh i phrased it that way cuz that was a hentai too. yeah yeah i know tasteless.
After that was done ians mom had to pick us up. She was late. Her watch wasnt working right.. it was way too late for that shit... whatever. She took us to taco bell so it was all good =). Afterwards i went straight to bed. other people stayed up to build their gundams. i needed sleep... tiring day.
Sunday: Woke up got my shower. Decided what we were going to do that day. Ate more good food. JOrdan and amber went to the aquarium cuz they're a couple and stuff. The rest of us went to the con and to the dealers room. Sunday's when the dealers want to get rid of stuff and such. At least thats what the consensus thinks. I question that actually but who am i to go against 22,000 con goers? Anyways bought my z'gokks claw. A couple movies too. Not too much actually. I mainly pushed ian around.
After the dealers room Ian's mom's friend offered to take us out to eat! Buritoes for lunch! yay! Ian took a shot of diablo sauce. My steak burrito was delicious. The woman spent $50 on us! She's great! She was going to treat us to ice cream afterwards but the line was way too huge and the ice cream was way too expensive. i enjoyed shooting random things with my claw gun on the way to the car. I even shot a mermaid statue. I shot her tits and face. all over her tits and face. mmm
Anyways got back to our base and... stayed there... playing advance wars. Probably should have gone back home that day actually. but we didnt. got a goodnights sleep though. it was fun just chilling with my friends kicking ians ass at advance wars. good times.
Monday: WAsnt much to monday really. everyone packed up ate a great breakfast and left. I really only mention this day cuz of what happened when we got back to the metro station. someone had hit kyles windshield with a crowbar. wtf right? yeah that guy has the worst luck when it comes to life. its too bad because his outlook is allready so down. =( i'm the guy thats supposed to get bad luck damnit! i want to get beat up in life! i used to ask god for that when i was religious! I'm weird.
Anyways we went home in a beat up car and patty followed us. thats all there is. Memories.
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