Sunday, bloody Sunday…See? Inner dj is still on! There was no blood, I swear! Ok, there might have been but it wasn’t real blood! It was makeup blood and it wasn’t on me! There were tons of cosplayers with tons of fake blood on them. I don’t have any pictures, so you’ll just have to trust me that it happened.
I woke up waaaay too early this morning. It was probably close to 2am before I went to sleep and I woke up probably six times overnight and finally gave up and got up at 8:30. This meant that I was packed up and checked out of the hotel by 9am. After a quick stop at the gift shop for a couple of shirts for the boys, I dragged a luggage cart upstairs to the room, packed everything on it and then dragged it alllll the way out to the van and loaded it up. I caught the 9:20am shuttle and was at the convention center by around 10:30. Then, the great hunt for an atm machine began! I couldn’t believe it, but a Sheraton hotel didn’t have an atm on sight and I didn’t want to walk 2 blocks down to a gas station so I figured there’d be one at the convention center. There was! Except the first one I tried was plum out of cash! Luckily, someone told me where there was another one, so I stood in line at that one and pulled my spending money for the day.
Then, it was back up to the floor to make my first purchase of the day. It’s pretty rare that I purchase review items, but something about this had caught my attention and I decided to take a risk on it. What did I buy (once I tracked the guy down…) ? I bought this:
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| Image snagged from www.turbopizza.com |
It was about 11:20am by that time (yeah, it took me a while to find that atm and then this guy!), so I decided to go sit in line for the one and only panel that I attended this weekend. Of course, I got up there and realized that it was only 11:25 and the room had another panel in it for another 20 minutes! So, I sat down on the floor and got comfy up against a wall with another girl. While sitting there, I snagged these pictures with my phone:
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| I really need to start taking better photos. |
After the talk, I headed back to the floor. I stopped and talked with some of the great people that I had met the day before. I even had one really cute guy tell me that he wished he’d known I’d been on my own for dinner because they would have asked me along. That made me feel pretty good. I made my way back to Artist Alley because I’d missed it the day before.
Isn’t that fantastic? Yeah, it’s the only celebrity autograph I brought home for the weekend, but I think it’s the best! I’m not much of a squealing fan girl but yeah, this makes me go wooo! hehe…
Sadly, before I knew it, the time had come from me to leave the land of omg awesome comics and entertainment folks and head back home.
Another shuttle, train, shuttle ride and I was back at the hotel and started the long drive home.
The GPS helped me to tour Michigan and I finally rolled in around 1am early Monday morning. Would I do it again? Hell yes. If I’m not on the press list for next year, you will find one majorly sulking blogger here. I might be getting hooked on cons because I’m already mega excited for Phoenix in May. I’ll be there Thursday-Sunday so expect another series of con posts after that trip. Between now and then, keep your eyes open for review posts and the standard life of me posts. Life keeps rolling along, even when I get to go pretend I’m real press for a weekend.
Thank you to C2E2 for believing in me, Big Dog Ink for hanging out with me, to the many vendors/exhibitors/artists who are taking a chance on me and lastly to Justin and Eric for not only believing in me and pushing me, but for keeping me company on those long train rides. I wish you could have been there with me, but we’ll all be together in Phoenix next month and I can’t wait for all the hugs and loves from you and from other friends who will be there, as well.
