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Geek.Kon 2011!

This past weekend was awesome.
We bought a hotel room and stayed there from Friday night through Sunday. In our room we had Taby, Lexa, Steph, Emi, and myself. It was quite a mess in there as we had way too much stuff and not enough space.

DAY 1 - FRIDAY
After school on Friday the 9th, Taby and I went to Lexa's house so we could pick up a few things such as my pants that her mom took in for me. After a few minutes at her house we went to Pick n' Save to get cookie dough, which was going to be our breakfast for the weekend. We then went to her house and packed up all of our food we made the night before, loaded up the car, and went over to Amber's house. Amber's mom needed to follow us there because she couldn't you know, mapquest directions or anything. We got to her house and waited for them to pull around out front. When they finally did, they suddenly had to go to the bank. I drove up to the bank and waited in the parking lot. Then, we again began our journey. When we got into McFarland she pulled up next to me and pointed to the gas station, mouthing "I need to get gas!" I kept driving until I could pull off, and again, waited. I called Amber and told her specific instructions of what they should do to make it easier for me to pull back on when she's finished. Nope, that didn't work. After finally getting behind me, we trucked on through traffic jams and horrible drivers to the Marriot West.
We got there, and were very lucky to find a great parking spot. Taby and I gathered up about half of our things and carried them up to our room, then took another trip for the rest. We got situated and decided not to go to the masked ball. We were very late and the majority didn't want to go.
So we put on our costumes - Lexa was a character from Homestuck, Emi was some character (I don't know who, but later she wore her cute Asian outfit,) Taby was Grell from Black Butler, and I was Edward Elric from FullMetal Alchemist. We finished and walked around, browsing the stands, gaming in the game room. The bubble game was there from the year before. YAY!
Later that night, we all decided to go to Denny's. Emi and I shared a veggie burger and it was quite tasty. We hung out there for a while longer, then decided to walk back.

DAY 2 - SATURDAY
We all were lazy and didn't finish getting ready until about noon. Some of us walked around, browsed, played video games, and just hung out with people the entire day. Also, that night some of us went back to Denny's, but this time we all had the same thing. Grilled cheese with mozzarella sticks inside. It was so delicious. I felt like I was going to have a heart attack, but it was totally worth it. We ended up leaving at about 12.30 AM. Then we walked back and played video games until about 03.00 AM... Checkout was around 11.30 AM. We didn't sleep all that much with having to clean up the room and such, but it was so much fun!

DAY 3 - SUNDAY
We all had to get up, get ready, and clean up our room and pack up our things. Taby and I loaded all of our things up into my car with two trips. We went back inside and played video games for a while, and I bought my FullMetal Alchemist wall scroll. We had to leave for pit rehearsal a little early, but we decided to go in our costumes. We showed up an hour and fifteen minute late, with only 45 minutes left in rehearsal. When we walked in the door, many laughed. We were so awkward! LOL! We finished up pit rehearsal and I took Taby back to her house, and we unloaded her things and sorted. After her mom and aunt snapped some photos, I took off for my mom's house. Still in my costume, there was much confusion on the road from other drivers, and when I arrived home.

What an awesome weekend! I cannot wait for our next con!

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