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mewtwowarrior ([personal profile] mewtwowarrior) wrote2007-03-03 10:52 pm

Convention! ^_^

^_^  Today was a great day!

First, I slept in late, then I played my daily Animal Crossing, and I went and ate breakfast at the cafeteria place.  After that, I went and played on my computer.

lol, for some reason, it's been snowing on and off all day today, but just a little, nothing stuck.  XD

While I was playing on my computer, I got a phone call.  It was one of my friends from my game club, and he asked me if I wanted to go to the convention the anime club and the game club was running.  I was glad that he asked me, as I didn't have transportation, and couldn't go unless someone took me.  XD  Most of the people I know were working on the convention, so I couldn't get a ride with them.

This was my first convention!  ^_^

So, he came and picked me up.  His nickname is "Panther", but I don't know how he got it.  XD  He stopped by the Wendy's drive-through.  He ate his food on the way to the hotel convention center.  The first time, we missed the hotel and had to turn around.  When we got into the convention center, we bought our passes and wandered around.

There was a bunch of rooms with stuff going on.  So much happened that what what I'm going talk about is out of order.  XD

There was an area where people sold stuff that they drew, and I bought a picture of some chibi Kingdom Hearts 2 characters.  ^_^  We wandered over to the board game area and played Werewolf.  ^_^  

I got Werewolf the first round, boo.  XD  I don't like being Werewolf because I always laugh if someone asks me directly if I am the Werewolf.  XD  I got lucky, and I think me and the other Werewolf survived.  I was a Villager for the rest of the rounds.  One point, after I had been killed, I went back to the Kingdom Hearts chibi person and bought a pic of chibi Riku.  ^_^

During Werewolf, the Red Bull people came around and gave us free energy drinks, whee!

We played with some interesting people, one being Boardgame Dave.  Another was a girl dressed at Jareth the Goblin King from Labyrinth.  XD  Me and her seemed to get to be pretty good friends.  There was one guy who had a fox hat and tail, and he was pretty cool too.  Though, my favorite player was someone who dressed as Final Form Sora!  He also had a Paopu Fruit that he said some fangirls at another convention gave him money to buy.  XD  He also had some yellow Pocky and had put a sign on it stating that it was "Paopu Pocky."  XD  I commented that Sora must be his favorite character, and he said that Axel was.  XD  He said that he got his costume on Ebay.  XD  I've been looking at the ones on Ebay, and I do say that they look fantastic in person!

One of my friends convinced us that we should check out this panel thing that had two actors from a Power Rangers like show.  It was kinda cool, they spoke in Japanese and had a translator.

At one point, this one guy who I hadn't seen in many months came up and asked how I was doing, I said I was good, then realized who it was.  XD  I gave a small jump, I was surprised to see him.  XD  I think he was amused about me jumping.  We talked briefly, then headed our seperate ways.

We wandered over to the anime and game rooms.  We never did watch any anime, it all looked weird or boring.  XD  At one point, we played Super Smash Bros.  I didn't do too well, I hadn't played in a long time, I'm only a medicore player, and the A button seemed to stick a bit.  XD

We went and saw a concert by a Japanese lady.  She sung a few songs, then wanted to sing some Para Para songs and encouraged us to dance.  Me and Panther didn't.  XD  She drug some people on stage, including this one guy from the anime club.  XD  While she was singing, there was a guy dressed as Naruto, and he was all hyper and dancing.  He told us we should dance, and that it pretty much consisted of flailing around.  XD

We wandered around some some more, and then went to Steak and Shake. I wasn't too hungry, but he convinced me to get a milkshake and also bought me some fries.  He had the Steak and Shake.  XD  He wouldn't let me pay for anything, and it was pretty yummy.  While we were chatting, Boardgame Dave showed up, and said he was trying to get people for Werewolf again.  

So, we headed on back and wandered a bit, then went to the Rave.  We both bought glowsticks, I got blue and yellow, he got red and yellow, and tied them together like nunchucks.  XD  This was my first Rave, so I didn't know what to do.  XD  It seemed to pretty much consist of people jumping around like mad with glowsticks in the dark to laser tag music.  XD

We wandered back to the video game room, but they were packing up and moving to another room. Panther took a TV, and I helped carry the power cord.  I felt rather silly, but I probably couldn't have picked up anything else.  XD  We hung around for a bit, then went to see if Boardgame Dave was playing Werewolf.  There wasn't enough people, so we wandered back to the new video game room, but they couldn't do anything until after a panel at 11.  

So, we decided to leave and he took me back to my dorm.

I saw a ton of people I knew at the convention, but it wasn't too crowded.  The cosplay seemed to stick to three main themes, Final Fantasy, Naruto, and Fullmetal Alchemist.  XD

All in all, a fantastic and fun day!  I wasn't planning on going to the convention, except with my dad and sister on Sunday, but I'm super glad I went today.  ^_^

And the best thing is, I get to go back tomorrow!  ^_^