Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Sakura Con pt. 1
I ended up attending Sakura Con 07 down in Seattle WA on Easter weekend!! It was FANTASTIC =^.^= I was just so happy to be able to go...I mean, I decided to go not even a week before it so I find myself lucky that others welcomed me to stay with them and help me out with rides etc.

I left on Wednesday morning to catch the ferry over to the mainland. I was supposed to be traveling with another girl from the island who had gone before, when I arrived at the ferry station she had forgot her passport in her parents car >.< The ferry was about to leave and I didnt have much time to think things through so I got on the boat without her (as she wasnt going to keep going without her passport).

The rest of the traveling went smoothly, I got from the ferry to the bus station and then onto the bus, heading for Seattle...even crossing the border only took about 30 min max.
However, when I got to Seattle I ended up waiting at the station for 3 hours for my ride to pick me up....I was worried they had forgotten or something >.< But I was able to meet a really cool older man that had actually just returned from a Wildlife Conservation meeting in Duncan, on Van. Island!!! He was a really sweet man and his ride was extremly late also so we joked about it.

My ride came and I spent the night, meeting new people and such. Thursday morning came and I ended up going to the Convention centre early as the people I had stayed with Wed. night were staff and needed to be at the centre. I wandered around aimlessly before getting a phone call from my roomate, Amanda. She was at the hotel and checked in so I could go over and meet up with her, which I did :)

We went back to the Convention Center after we introduced ourselves and she got changed into her first cosplay outfit (Neer from Death Note). We hung out till our other roomates arrived later in the evening.

Friday started far too early, lol....I woke up at 5:30am to get into the registration line up. There were already a number of people there, but I wasnt too far from the front. I got my badge by about 8am or so and then headed back to the hotel. I got brekfast (which was complimentary at our hotel) and showered before heading back to the convention.
All of my roomates were also staff so they worked most of the time and I wandered around by myself, but I didnt mind....you meet so many people at cons and there is so much to do, I still really enjoyed myself :)

I went to opening ceremonies then to VA Liam O'Brien's panel/autographs, took loads of photos...went to the dealers room, some other panels....kept my day busy :)
By evening Amanda got off work and we decided to wait in line for the AMV contest. We got a phone call from our new roomate who had just arrived and wanted to meet up. So Johnathon (that spelling looks wrong :S) met us in line....by this time I hadnt ate since approx. 9am and was starving so I decided to go grab some subway before the line was let in....I ran downstairs to the 4th floor and saw the huge line at the subway and said forget it...and decided to go to the one outside.

I waited impatiently as the people in front of me, "should I get this or this....or no this....ya deffinitly this" AHHHHHH lol then the subway guy made the announcement that he was all out of bread and only had wraps left...which cleared the line (yay!) I didnt mind so I got my wrap and booked it back upstairs....I saw that every single escalator going up was packed and said 'hell no' lol...so sprinted to the elevator...Im sure people were looking at me funny....I ran past some people I had met as they waved and yelled hello....then goodbye lol

I made it back to Amanda and John as the line was just entereing the main theatre. we sat and I ate my wrap as we waited for the competition to start....however I noticed a GS pair, Lacus and Asuran and booked it to the back of the theatre to take their picture :P (I ended up semi-stalking them over the weekend as I would take their picture whenever I saw them...it became a joke as Asuran and I would always salute each other as we passed by).

Ok so I actually ended up writing a crap load lol....so I will write the rest in pt. 2!!
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