SakuraCon Report
I'm feeling kinda tired and lazy, so I'll write everything in point form XD
and I'll cut it so it won't kill friends pages
Wednesday night
-after my chem lab exam, I went home and ended up falling asleep
-woke up at 10pm and ate dinner... then procrastinated for a bit before packing
-packing took me 3 times longer than it should have cuz we're in the middle of installing hardwood floors upstairs so everything is misplaced... so it took me about an hour (lol, I even made a checklist in Excel a few days earlier since my mom always does that before we go on trips)
Thursday
-I was sewing non-stop from about 12am-5:30am and then I finally cracked =___=
-Kurogane was 60% done and I needed to leave the house by 7:15am so I had to leave it and let down my Tsubasa group (but our Fye was sick and couldn't go anyway so we'll probably wait til summer to do a full photoshoot)
-left the house at 7:15am and my mom drove me to the sea bus. I took the skytrain and then walked about a block to the Pacific Central Station to take the Greyhound
-my 2 friends were heading there from Richmond and were there earlier than me ^^;; then we checked in our luggage and hopped onto the bus
-hahaha, it was at this time that our theme for the trip started: Bacon Lettuce (lol, you'll understand if you're a 腐女子 aka. fujoshi)
-since me and one of my friends were sleep deprived from writing papers and sewing, we pretty much died as soon as we sat down in the bus
-it was funny going through customs cuz we were talking to the officer there and he said that a lot of con ppl already went through and we told him that there'd be a ton more during the day
-died again on the bus and when we were about to get off, me and my friend finally noticed that there were a lot more ppl on the bus (we were so dead that we didn't even notice that we stopped and picked up more ppl on the way)
-when we got to our hotel, we found out that we couldn't check into our rooms until our other friends came along cuz they were under their names so we checked in our luggage and went shopping~~
-didn't find much for myself, but my friends got some stuff and we ended up eating McDonalds cuz we were hungry and tired of walking
-our friends that drove to Seattle finally arrived so we checked in and rested up for a bit before going to pre-reg
-after pre-reg, we walked around for a bit and headed back to the hotel and ate cup ramen (we had such a huge drawer of snacks, mostly from Konbiniya XD) and tried on our costumes for absolutly no reason
-phoned home from a really cute red phone booth inside the hotel
-some of our other friends also came down to our room so we hung out in our room until almost 2am
-after everybody left, we ironed our costumes and got ready for bed
Friday
-we woke up at around 10am and slowly got ready. We were planning on heading out by 11:15... but that didn't happen XD
-headed to the convention center at about 12:30pm and bought some pizza since we were too lazy to look around more for food (expensive since it was in the convention centre though, $4 USD/slice *shakes head*)
-oh yeah, I was dressed as Radu (had to borrow my friend's blue Oshitari wig) and my friend was dressed as Ion (both Trinity Blood) and a few of my other friends were doing HunterxHunter (Gon, Killua, Kurapika, Kuroro)
-the Trinity Blood photoshoot was at 3pm, but it was kinda sad since it was the 2 of us plus another 2 girls doing different versions of Seth. There were actually a few more ppl doing TB, but we saw them while we were walking around later on
-went to the dealers room but didn't buy anything cuz I can just get my friends to get things for cheaper in Japan
-watched the A-Key-Kyo concert. Damn, the Kanda cosplayer in the band was so hot, her waist was so thin and toned when she changed costumes. And she was really tall too. *____* MOE~~~~
-headed back to the hotel and ate dinner (cup ramen again) and rest up a bit before changing to go to the dance
-the dance at the con was kinda sad since they just played rave music and it reminded me of a highschool dance
-hung around for a bit and then went to the Cheesecake Factory for take-out since it was right across from the convention centre. I got a white chocolate caramel macadamia nut cheesecake, so yummy~~~
-headed back to the hotel to eat the cheesecake. Mine was really yummy, but by the end, there was just way too much caramel so I ended up tossing the last bit since it was getting sickening XP
-oh yeah, during all the times we were in the hotel room, we kept on listening to TeniMyu (Prince of Tennis Musical) music since it was on my friend's ipod and she brought speakers. lol, by the end of the trip, I think I got really used to listening to it even though I'm not really in to PoT (...yet...)
-we all helped in sewing the finishing detail of my friend's Sakura Hime costume since she had so many papers to do before going to the con
-I think we ended up falling asleep at 3:30am even though we had to get up early for the Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles photoshoot at 10am
Saturday
-waking up for the shoot didn't happen =___=
-I was gonna be Kurogane, but since my costume wasn't finished on time, I just dressed in my classical lolita clothes since they're quite comfortable (wore a curly wig though cuz my hair was an absolute mess in the morning)
-my friends did Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo Hime, Yuuko-san, and Watanuki for the TRC shoot. They even brought a giant Mokona plushie with them :3
-since we missed the shoot, we just went off on our own to do a photoshoot since there were some really pretty places around the convention centre
-... and I can't really remember what else we did during the day so I'll just skip along to the evening...
-we went to the con after dinner again and I borrowed my friend's Air Gear costume (Rika) cuz it was more comfortable than my other clothes. Her skirt was way too short for me though so I wore my own... lol, so basically, I just looked like a really plain school girl since it was a sailor-fuku shirt
-on our way there, some Japanese people were walking behind us and were talking about us since they thought that none of us understood Japanese. I could understand the gist of what they were saying, but all of my friends can speak Japanese fluently so they turned around and said something back at them XD it was so funny~~
-it was messed up, a lot more ppl asked for my picture when I was dressed in my friend's clothes than when I was dressed in Radu. One lady asked for my picture and then asked if she could use it on her website and on the opening ceremony presentation for the Sacramento Anime Convention. Wtf?! It wasn't even my own costume... and it turned out that she was the director of programming of that con =____=
-walked around for a bit and went to a really, really lame shounen-ai support group panel. I expected it to be much better, but it was so boring so we left
-when we got back to the hotel room, we ended up watching some TeniMyu videos on my friend's ipod and we launched into a huge Bacon Lettuce conversation. Ohohohohoho~ it was so awesome. We must've disturbed other rooms around our room though XD Who needs a shounen-ai support group when you have fellow 腐女子?
-lol, we also played a bit of Tokimeki Memorial Girls Side on my friend's DS. They had to translate for me though since I can't understand *cries*
Sunday
-the Prince of Tennis shoot was at 10am so we had to wake up quite early. My friends went as Oshitari, Gakuto, and Jirou from Hyoutei
-I was going as Naru from Ghost Hunt (had to borrow the Watanuki wig from my friend) since my other non-roomie friend was doing Mai. She asked me if I could be Naru about a week before the con and sent me the manga to read... which freaked me out since I'm bad with horror things
-at the TeniPuri shoot, I was the bag holder and photographer since I wasn't meeting my other friend until 12pm. Hahaha, even though I'm not really into TeniPuri, some of those pictures made me moe~~
-went to the dealers room againt to buy an omiage for Amanda. I ended up buying her a Gundam Wing doujinshi since she can get most other things when she goes to Japan after exams end
-met up with my friend dressed as Mai and we went around and had a photoshoot. We met up with my other friend so she did a photoshoot for us too so that we could get couple shots
-by the time I met up with my roomies again, it was time to head to the Greyhound station
-the ppl at the hotel were really slow at retrieving our luggage that we checked in since we checked out of our room before we went to the convention centre
-we didn't get to sit together on the way back, but that was ok since I fell asleep as soon as I hit the seat
-since the Greyhound follows the commercial line for customs, it didn't take very long (though I heard the normal line was about 3 hours long) and we arrived at Pacific Central Sation on time
-my sister and her bf picked me up from the station so I bid farewell to my wonderful 腐女子 friends~
-came home and got changed cuz my aunt's family came over for Easter dinner
-I didn't eat as much as I wanted to cuz my stomach shrank from my screwed up eating habits XD lol, and when my mom hugged me when I got home, she said I lost weight. Makes sense though cuz we didn't eat that much and we were constantly walking everyday
-after dinner, I showed my aunt and cousin my 2nd husband~~
-my aunt and cousin sew a lot and my aunt said that she can make a pattern block for me XD that's so awesome cuz it always takes me forever to do patterns for clothes and costumes
-even during dinner, I was so sleepy, so after my aunt's family left, I went online for a little bit and then plopped into bed for 12 hours~
and that's about it for SakuraCon 2007~~
I'm so incredibly happy that I was able to go and that I had such wonderful ppl to spend time with X3
and I'll cut it so it won't kill friends pages
Wednesday night
-after my chem lab exam, I went home and ended up falling asleep
-woke up at 10pm and ate dinner... then procrastinated for a bit before packing
-packing took me 3 times longer than it should have cuz we're in the middle of installing hardwood floors upstairs so everything is misplaced... so it took me about an hour (lol, I even made a checklist in Excel a few days earlier since my mom always does that before we go on trips)
Thursday
-I was sewing non-stop from about 12am-5:30am and then I finally cracked =___=
-Kurogane was 60% done and I needed to leave the house by 7:15am so I had to leave it and let down my Tsubasa group (but our Fye was sick and couldn't go anyway so we'll probably wait til summer to do a full photoshoot)
-left the house at 7:15am and my mom drove me to the sea bus. I took the skytrain and then walked about a block to the Pacific Central Station to take the Greyhound
-my 2 friends were heading there from Richmond and were there earlier than me ^^;; then we checked in our luggage and hopped onto the bus
-hahaha, it was at this time that our theme for the trip started: Bacon Lettuce (lol, you'll understand if you're a 腐女子 aka. fujoshi)
-since me and one of my friends were sleep deprived from writing papers and sewing, we pretty much died as soon as we sat down in the bus
-it was funny going through customs cuz we were talking to the officer there and he said that a lot of con ppl already went through and we told him that there'd be a ton more during the day
-died again on the bus and when we were about to get off, me and my friend finally noticed that there were a lot more ppl on the bus (we were so dead that we didn't even notice that we stopped and picked up more ppl on the way)
-when we got to our hotel, we found out that we couldn't check into our rooms until our other friends came along cuz they were under their names so we checked in our luggage and went shopping~~
-didn't find much for myself, but my friends got some stuff and we ended up eating McDonalds cuz we were hungry and tired of walking
-our friends that drove to Seattle finally arrived so we checked in and rested up for a bit before going to pre-reg
-after pre-reg, we walked around for a bit and headed back to the hotel and ate cup ramen (we had such a huge drawer of snacks, mostly from Konbiniya XD) and tried on our costumes for absolutly no reason
-phoned home from a really cute red phone booth inside the hotel
-some of our other friends also came down to our room so we hung out in our room until almost 2am
-after everybody left, we ironed our costumes and got ready for bed
Friday
-we woke up at around 10am and slowly got ready. We were planning on heading out by 11:15... but that didn't happen XD
-headed to the convention center at about 12:30pm and bought some pizza since we were too lazy to look around more for food (expensive since it was in the convention centre though, $4 USD/slice *shakes head*)
-oh yeah, I was dressed as Radu (had to borrow my friend's blue Oshitari wig) and my friend was dressed as Ion (both Trinity Blood) and a few of my other friends were doing HunterxHunter (Gon, Killua, Kurapika, Kuroro)
-the Trinity Blood photoshoot was at 3pm, but it was kinda sad since it was the 2 of us plus another 2 girls doing different versions of Seth. There were actually a few more ppl doing TB, but we saw them while we were walking around later on
-went to the dealers room but didn't buy anything cuz I can just get my friends to get things for cheaper in Japan
-watched the A-Key-Kyo concert. Damn, the Kanda cosplayer in the band was so hot, her waist was so thin and toned when she changed costumes. And she was really tall too. *____* MOE~~~~
-headed back to the hotel and ate dinner (cup ramen again) and rest up a bit before changing to go to the dance
-the dance at the con was kinda sad since they just played rave music and it reminded me of a highschool dance
-hung around for a bit and then went to the Cheesecake Factory for take-out since it was right across from the convention centre. I got a white chocolate caramel macadamia nut cheesecake, so yummy~~~
-headed back to the hotel to eat the cheesecake. Mine was really yummy, but by the end, there was just way too much caramel so I ended up tossing the last bit since it was getting sickening XP
-oh yeah, during all the times we were in the hotel room, we kept on listening to TeniMyu (Prince of Tennis Musical) music since it was on my friend's ipod and she brought speakers. lol, by the end of the trip, I think I got really used to listening to it even though I'm not really in to PoT (...yet...)
-we all helped in sewing the finishing detail of my friend's Sakura Hime costume since she had so many papers to do before going to the con
-I think we ended up falling asleep at 3:30am even though we had to get up early for the Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles photoshoot at 10am
Saturday
-waking up for the shoot didn't happen =___=
-I was gonna be Kurogane, but since my costume wasn't finished on time, I just dressed in my classical lolita clothes since they're quite comfortable (wore a curly wig though cuz my hair was an absolute mess in the morning)
-my friends did Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo Hime, Yuuko-san, and Watanuki for the TRC shoot. They even brought a giant Mokona plushie with them :3
-since we missed the shoot, we just went off on our own to do a photoshoot since there were some really pretty places around the convention centre
-... and I can't really remember what else we did during the day so I'll just skip along to the evening...
-we went to the con after dinner again and I borrowed my friend's Air Gear costume (Rika) cuz it was more comfortable than my other clothes. Her skirt was way too short for me though so I wore my own... lol, so basically, I just looked like a really plain school girl since it was a sailor-fuku shirt
-on our way there, some Japanese people were walking behind us and were talking about us since they thought that none of us understood Japanese. I could understand the gist of what they were saying, but all of my friends can speak Japanese fluently so they turned around and said something back at them XD it was so funny~~
-it was messed up, a lot more ppl asked for my picture when I was dressed in my friend's clothes than when I was dressed in Radu. One lady asked for my picture and then asked if she could use it on her website and on the opening ceremony presentation for the Sacramento Anime Convention. Wtf?! It wasn't even my own costume... and it turned out that she was the director of programming of that con =____=
-walked around for a bit and went to a really, really lame shounen-ai support group panel. I expected it to be much better, but it was so boring so we left
-when we got back to the hotel room, we ended up watching some TeniMyu videos on my friend's ipod and we launched into a huge Bacon Lettuce conversation. Ohohohohoho~ it was so awesome. We must've disturbed other rooms around our room though XD Who needs a shounen-ai support group when you have fellow 腐女子?
-lol, we also played a bit of Tokimeki Memorial Girls Side on my friend's DS. They had to translate for me though since I can't understand *cries*
Sunday
-the Prince of Tennis shoot was at 10am so we had to wake up quite early. My friends went as Oshitari, Gakuto, and Jirou from Hyoutei
-I was going as Naru from Ghost Hunt (had to borrow the Watanuki wig from my friend) since my other non-roomie friend was doing Mai. She asked me if I could be Naru about a week before the con and sent me the manga to read... which freaked me out since I'm bad with horror things
-at the TeniPuri shoot, I was the bag holder and photographer since I wasn't meeting my other friend until 12pm. Hahaha, even though I'm not really into TeniPuri, some of those pictures made me moe~~
-went to the dealers room againt to buy an omiage for Amanda. I ended up buying her a Gundam Wing doujinshi since she can get most other things when she goes to Japan after exams end
-met up with my friend dressed as Mai and we went around and had a photoshoot. We met up with my other friend so she did a photoshoot for us too so that we could get couple shots
-by the time I met up with my roomies again, it was time to head to the Greyhound station
-the ppl at the hotel were really slow at retrieving our luggage that we checked in since we checked out of our room before we went to the convention centre
-we didn't get to sit together on the way back, but that was ok since I fell asleep as soon as I hit the seat
-since the Greyhound follows the commercial line for customs, it didn't take very long (though I heard the normal line was about 3 hours long) and we arrived at Pacific Central Sation on time
-my sister and her bf picked me up from the station so I bid farewell to my wonderful 腐女子 friends~
-came home and got changed cuz my aunt's family came over for Easter dinner
-I didn't eat as much as I wanted to cuz my stomach shrank from my screwed up eating habits XD lol, and when my mom hugged me when I got home, she said I lost weight. Makes sense though cuz we didn't eat that much and we were constantly walking everyday
-after dinner, I showed my aunt and cousin my 2nd husband~~
-my aunt and cousin sew a lot and my aunt said that she can make a pattern block for me XD that's so awesome cuz it always takes me forever to do patterns for clothes and costumes
-even during dinner, I was so sleepy, so after my aunt's family left, I went online for a little bit and then plopped into bed for 12 hours~
and that's about it for SakuraCon 2007~~
I'm so incredibly happy that I was able to go and that I had such wonderful ppl to spend time with X3