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Returned from Anime Expo July weekend!(a very long story...) |
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Hello Journal,
Well Happy independence day! I decided to rent a car with a friend and drive to southern california. First it started off with a nice packing of bags, which thankfully was all done by my little sister, she did all the packing to get me out of the house.. Then I drove to the car rental. We got the car and we drove 500 miles....across vast fields full of cows and other critters that eat grass...well anyways, we finally ended up in very busy and very overcrowded Anahiem. There were people everywhere! I mean literally dancing in the street!(well not exactly....kinda walking on the sidewalk). Well I advise to try and not travel on holidays especially near disneyland, which is the cause of lines and chaotic behaviors....oh my gaud!!! there were orange cones everywhere~! I was about to go a little biszerk....
Thus on nice Saturday morn...our destination in Anahiem, the nice convention center greeted us with a light sign (it kinda reminded me of the theater in Australia....) And then came the many cosplay people( I was kinda depressed for not cosplaying this year, but I was just too tired to put a costume together.... emo ) well...anyways....walking up to the nice building was enthralling, I could barely breathe(mainly cuz it was 100 degrees and I was wearing all black) but of course I come up to lines and since my friend forgot to buy an anime expo ticket and didnt want to wait in line to fill out a form and buy a 60 dollar one, so she went driving around laguna beach and Newport beach while leaving me alone at anime expo.... crying I went to the registration hall(aloonnne!) and surrounded by beautiful cosplayers it was a great opportunity to take pics, so I did with my lame a** camera that is non digital whatsoever and you have to reload with film(errk!) and I took lots of great photos when I realized almost the whole roll was already gone and I havent even got into the main hall yet! wellI loved the trigun cosplays and the many kakashis all around! So many people did Naruto this year, the ever popular ninjabands were everywhere! (I love those things! I have a purple one!) and while waiting in line to get my badge and bag,(which took aprox. 2hrs cuz I was a little late on arrival) I talked with the two guys in front of me...one guy in all black,(not sure who he was trying to be) and his friend who was dressed as Mugen from SC...(good show!) and they were so crazy and constantly stopping to take dozens of photos....(those crazy guys!) Anyways after the 2hr wait....which was worth it I might add, Sadly I was a little late for the open ceremony.....(boohoo) I headed directly towards the merchandise booths and near viz comics giant display as I walked in, nicely decorated with large posters of Naruto and cases of Naruto gear and whatnot....and then I began to flounder and spend all my munnies like there was no tomorrow, i regret doing this because later on I wanted to buy something really expensive and I couldnt afford it.... crying but geez did i spend, everything was soooooo cheap! I loved it, and then I went to almost every booth and got free stuff, then went to some events, and premieres....ohhh I loved the FMA movie premiere, very very good movie, I reccommend it! some other ones I had already seen, I felt a little lost doing all this alone, but it didnt really matter because i began to start chatting with people who couldnt even understand me, they were nice anywayz....well some of them....then I went a took a rest, I was so tired after saturday I crashed in the hotel room, even though the bed was as hard as a rock! (my nice comfy bed at home is extra soft, so i wasnt use to laying on a white board! stressed ) at least the hotel room was clean and smelt of hotel.....I love the stink.... rofl And then I prepared my self for a very long Sunday! (super long, full of tea parties, copic marker artist signings and movies! and more shopping!) I got a otaku id! I wish I could show you! Its so adorable they drew me! Thinking about sushi! whee And then my feet hurt so bad, because I was stupid and I dont like to sit down at conventions.....I dont remember eating anything either, got a stomach ache and bought some pocky....lots of pocky and water....a very nice meal....chocolate!! then me and my friend went to panda express.....Im kinda skipping a lot of Sunday cuz most of it was a blurr....and almost everyone I ran into was looking for the damn gaia booth! geez...11pm is way too late...ah well... we never found it....Im sure someone did i suppose....They had a singer at the bandai booth i think....i dont really remember which giant display sign it was...., the one from Someday's Dreamers, she's really good, but I dont remember her name.....ah well... I love the sigs of Kaoppe and JaikuhaJenkai they were far out at the copic marker booth. There was great stuff in the artist alley, I loved everyones junk, and the art auctions too, I almost bought this one pic of ein and Spike that I thought was adorable, but I ran outta cash.....*weep weep* only enough left to get me some foods....
Anime Expo cons.....were that it was freakishly hot! and the lines were sooooo confusing! On Sunday they had the line extend all the way into the parking lot! yikes, that was a bad morning experience, mazes of people make me very dizzy!!!.... gonk Then I tried to cut in the line but one of vests said I couldnt and sent me back to the end...! (arrg....lines....) ah well, she was just doing her job....at one booth the people thought i worked there and began to ask "21 questions" I had to keep explaining that I didnt and you can be on the other side of the booth, cuz you could, other people were doing it, I was almost tempted to buy a yuri or yaoi paddle....but i reject that s**t..... sweatdrop .....they were kinda cool looking though....I got kinda bored amongst the chaos and began to hunt down extra good cosplayers while the adv stand....i think thats what it was, or was it anime selects....well one of them was having a cosplay contest....(still depressed I didnt dress in my kewl garb emo ) well I dont feel like writing much more so Im gonna leave you......deal....or go to AX and experience it yourself!>o<
=Ali* signing off=
 hobokids · Wed Jul 05, 2006 @ 08:48am · 0 Comments |
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