A-kon! Ash and I won 2nd place overall. freak OUT. We were so tired and in so much pain (wigs, wings, what have you) that it didn’t really register with us until sunday that we had won.
Friday
We left the house at 3:30 AM and drove to Little Rock. We got turned around and lost once in Little Rock, but eventually found the airport. No one in line, we walked right up and checked in. They had a Burger King so we got breakfast, and played video games in the arcade, and finally boarded our 9 AM flight. Flight was super short, only about 40 mins. We got off the plane in record time, got to the baggage pick-up just in time to see our suitcases come onto the conveyor belt. We walked out, got in a taxi and headed to the hotel. (We flew into Dallas Love, much cheaper than DFW) We got to the hotel, checked in with no problems and went and found our room.
Everything was going so smoothly…. TOO smoothly!!
We called down to the shipping department and asked for them to bring my boxes (with my costumes in them) up to the room. It was a little before 11 by this point. They said it would be a few minutes, so Ash and I went back downstairs and got our badges. We went back upstairs and watched TV for a bit, and by now I was getting annoyed and wanted my boxes. I kept badgering dad to call back down there and see what the hold up was, because by now it had been not a few minutes, but an hour. It was torture is what it was. He finally called, and after another 10 mins the boxes finally arrived. GAH. And that was my big deal for friday. LOL.
I put on Asuka since it was easy to wear and Ash put Alucard since she was so excited about it (her new costume, y’know.) We went downstairs and got dad registered.
We tried to go to a panel friday but that didn’t work out.
Mostly we just walked around, talked to people and went in the dealer’s room. I changed several times that day, I think it went Asuka, Integra, Amidala, Nanami, Sana, and Eternal Sailorjupiter, lol. Ash put on her Mama costume when I had Sana, which was funny because she hadn’t been able to find her Squirrel beanie baby, so we had to make do with what I had at my house, and all. The only thing I had the right size was a bear. But nobody noticed. LOL. I wore Sana to eat in that night, much easier than any other costume I have. I wore Eternal Jupiter for maybe 30 minutes friday night, because I didn’t feel so good that night and wanted to go on back
upstairs. (besides we were both really tired)
Saturday
I got up and put on Yuffie. We went to eat but I didn’t eat. Ash was wearing regular clothes. Met up with FF7 peeps to get some fun pictures. I wore that for a while because it was pretty durn comfortable. Especially the shoes.
We tried to go to a panel but it didn’t work out.
But I was itchy to change into Ruby Heart and Ash wanted to put Xiaoyu on. So we did that. Ruby Heart was extremely hot to wear, but fun. A lot of people thought I was Beatrix from FF9 (???huh???) but the few people who did recognize me made me v. happy.
Ash wanted to put Alucard on once more before putting Skuld on for the masq so she went upstairs to change. I was so hot in Ruby Heart I decided to go ahead and put Belldandy on without the wings and wear it for a while. Much nicer. Ash wore Alucard for about 40 mins (she mostly just wanted to get one of those badges made) and then came back upstairs to get Skuld on, and me get my wings on.
Now when we had signed up for the masq on friday, we hadn’t been told a time or place to meet the next day. We asked at the info desk on saturday, and was told we were supposed to go to the main hall (I forget the name) at 6 on saturday night. So we had about an hour to wait at that point, and my wings were annoying, but Al told us there was an empty area in the dealer’s room where we could sit. When we went in we got waved over to be interviewed by a radio station. It was funny. I’m sure we sounded like dorks.
So we sat in the corner out of everybody’s way and had a quick “dinner.” A little before six I sent dad over to the main hall to see if we could go in there yet, and when he asked the staff guy at the door, the staff guy said “if they’re not in there already, they’re not going to be in the costume contest.” wtf????? We hussled on in there and just barely made it, just after we walked in they gave a “final call” for us.
I was annoyed. So then we sat in one place for a long time and then we sat in another place for a long time and then… it was all very confusing. We were the first of the walk-ons. After we did our super quick little walk-on we decided to stay outside, because my wings weren’t very comfortable in a chair. Eventually they told us to go back in there so we did.
After the cosplay was over, I thought they would never announce the winners… the wings were really starting to hurt. Ash was getting a headache from her wig. After they announced the judge’s awards, I was like, “shoot, if we didn’t get a judge’s award we’re not getting anything. And then like, we won 2nd place overall. holy crap dude! Our trophy was very pretty, although the wings broke off in our suitcase on the way back, even though we wrapped it up really well. Dad says he can fix it though.
I made dad take my wings off once we got in the hall. Then we went up the stairs. yuck : changed and wandered around a bit.
Sunday
Got up and packed my stuff up. Put Sana-chan on and wandered around, bought some stuff.
And then…. we went to a panel. And stayed. *gasp* We watched all of Fanboy Feud and it was very entertaining 😀
Then we checked out of our room and I put normal clothes on. We left around 3ish and Dallas Love was really hopping. I had to dig all our undeveloped film out of my suitcase. Then we had FOREVER before our flight. I took a nap. It was cold. We got back to Little Rock and waited for our luggage. It didn’t come. Then we heard our name being called over the loud speaker. OH NO! We went and got it out of the office but it didn’t look like there was anything wrong with it. We opened them up and it didn’t look like anything had been moved. huh. We’re not sure why they were seperate.
We got back into Memphis a little before 9, and I went to my grandmother’s house in Jackson for a week. yay. I slept all week.
yah so it was much fun. way too crowded but way fun. I finally got to meet a bunch of people I’d been wanting to meet, although I missed some people too.
As it stands right now, I have like, a little over 2 weeks to finish my stuff for AX. GEEZ! This is what I’m taking: Morrigan, Asuka (plugsuit), SeraMyu Jupiter, Yuffie, Belldandy (if I can fit the wings I’m taking them too)… and then either Ruby Heart or Integra. I haven’t decided which of those two, I’ll burn up in either. I want Ruby Heart but I’m sure Ash will want me to take Integra to wear with her Alucard. But I’m not taking more than six. Most likely it’ll be Ruby Heart 😉
And… guess what, I actually worked on the comic some last week. I’m going to be working on it all month, too… my schedule has really loosened up, I actually have time to, like, do stuff. Rock.