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Anime North 2006 Con Report
Friday -
Gah if I can remember this shit correctly... Hugo and I MEANT to get to the hotel BEFORE Avelia/Jean so we could book the rooms. Unfortunately, the subway decided to strand me at Don Mills for half an hour and Jean got there waaaay before we did. We had all our registration, masq, and rooms set up right on Friday!!
We got lost looking for the Holiday Inn's elevator located in the north-most corner of the fucking floor, hidden to the left of some contstruction area behind a convenience store (wtf?). As usual, PA and OFF got adjacent rooms. Once inside, I decided we needed to take some before pictures of the hotel *evil cackle*
Everyone slowly arrives and the OFF girls head to the TCC' Dealers Room to visit Mike @ Anime IKU. We autographed a few copies of the magazine and left a few of our biz cards at the booth. I was mooning over Susan's pic on the cover so the girls kind of had to "drag" me away.
We walked around for some exposure and LO AND BEHOLD! We stumble upon the sexiest AN judge ever! Naturally, we needed pics with our "celebrity".
More PA members arrive and we finally get a big enough group that we had to pose outside. On the way out, one of the con "usher chicks" screaming at us "GIRLS! MOVE!" ... She was kinda dorky so I blasted her with a sarcastic "OOOOKKAAAY!!!" and rolled my eyes. At summer camp, we teach the youngins to say "please". Once outside, we photoshooted until sun down. Leo and Oliva finally arrive and we all watch them change in the parking lot wooo~~
The Original Six gathered for a few pics. (Coles, Cha, Wendy, Aaron, Krystal and me) We used to play together on RO as a guild. GO GO VOLTS!!
We headed to dinner at Milestones and needless to say a few of us for pretty drunk. Germ was smashed and so was I. I vaguely remember taking sips of EVERYONE'S drink (hello AIDS) and pretending my sugar was crack. Haha. At one point, I actually sipped up all the sugar from the table... I remember laying on the street because I saw it in The Notebook and OFF Girl's frantic screams soon after I did that. *another evil cackle*
Late that night, the OFF girls practiced our masq skit (quite unsoberly) and we landed into bed around 3am. I DISTINCTLY remembered Hugo, Jean and me sleeping on one bed (in that order left to right)...
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Saturday -
Someone's alarm went off and I moaned and rolled over. My leg brushed up against another soft leg and I instinctually tried to spoon and snuggle with Jean. Good thing I opened my eyes! HOLY FACK IT'S HUGO! WTF?!?!?
XD Apparently she got too much of my body heat last night and "rolled over him". Uhuh.
OFF decided to wear RO in the morning. We all went outside the TCC again for some good photoshoots in the sunlight. Around 2, OFF changed into our Lolita costumes and that got more attention than I had expected. While we went to visit Mike @ Anime IKU again, it took us about half an hour to get there since we were stopped for pictures every 30 seconds!
After checking in with Mike (and realizing most of our biz cards were gone, especially that ones that were autographed) we split up for a while and enjoyed the con. I stopped by a few friends in Artist Alley and Dealers Room from high school. I chatted with Kinnee for a while, she was real busy as usual ^^. I stopped at Maiji's AA table and swooned over her RO art. Haha, I could finally identify the classes now that I've played the game. And finally at Sherry's AA table who wanted a copy of the magazine.
The OFF girls met up again and it was time to rush to the Double Tree for masquarade!! On the way there, we were stopped a zillion times again for pictures. We got half way and realized that if we didn't shake our big poofy asses, we were going to be late. Three guys saw us walking by and their dialogue was this XD:
Guy 1: Holy shit guy, take a pic!!
Guy 2: *rustling for camera*
Guy 3: Man, hurry up!
*OFF Girls posing for them*
Guy 2: *fiddling with camera* It's not working!!!
OFF Girls: We really have to go guys >_< We're really sorry.
Guy 2: It's broken!!!
Guy 1: I oughta knock you upside the head! It's not everyday you have four beautiful women waiting for you to take their picture! Useless!
Nothing extraordinary came from the masq except they had an emergency lock-down because a "child" was missing. The way the staff came in and told us to all sit down and be quiet, I thought there was a gunman on the loose or something. Turns out it was a 14 year old girl who had sneaked off with her boyfriend... Oookaaay. The masq was delayed about an hour.
OFF Girls held a private photoshoot session outside the green room after masq had ended. We quickly went back to the hotel and got ready for the dance. Apparently they were holding some sort of ball thing at the same time as the JPop dance but it cost $10 to go in. Um, no thanks. I'll keep my prom @ prom. I heard they played Yatta... wtf? At a ball?
Anyway, I had forgotten where I put my pass a few times and I finally figured out where it was...
Sure the Jpop dance stank of BO but then as we were leaving and passed the Moonlit Ball dance room ... I'm it's smelled like puke, sweat, piss and cheese. *gag* Pay to go in there? Nooooo thanks.
I visited the PA hotel room that night and got a little drunk again. I really didn't intend to drink, except I hadn't eaten all day and Coles kept telling me to "try this". Needless to say, I didn't return to my room until morning.
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Sunday -
We all rushed to get our stuff to check out of the hotel and DING DING DING, we took after pictures. Brace yourselves...
As we were leaving, the housemaids went into the PA room and I heard them yell "OH MY GOD! This isn't right. This isn't right... [x4]" Oops. Well I guess you kind of have to expect it if you are working as "housekeeping" for a hotel. You kind of have to work at work.
We reached the Double Tree and we picked up our ribbons and our trophy. Yay trophy! We earned it as a GROUP!!
Sunday was a calm down day. We participated in the Fashion Show but left before they announced the winners. It's not a big deal if we aren't there for the recognition, we know we had fun and that's what matters the most.
So after one last look around, we went back to the Double Tree for some final Lolita photoshoots. Many people had to leave early at this con so the rest of us just relaxed until even after the con ended. So far, this was my favourite con!! It just gets better every year!!
Friday -
Gah if I can remember this shit correctly... Hugo and I MEANT to get to the hotel BEFORE Avelia/Jean so we could book the rooms. Unfortunately, the subway decided to strand me at Don Mills for half an hour and Jean got there waaaay before we did. We had all our registration, masq, and rooms set up right on Friday!!
We got lost looking for the Holiday Inn's elevator located in the north-most corner of the fucking floor, hidden to the left of some contstruction area behind a convenience store (wtf?). As usual, PA and OFF got adjacent rooms. Once inside, I decided we needed to take some before pictures of the hotel *evil cackle*
Everyone slowly arrives and the OFF girls head to the TCC' Dealers Room to visit Mike @ Anime IKU. We autographed a few copies of the magazine and left a few of our biz cards at the booth. I was mooning over Susan's pic on the cover so the girls kind of had to "drag" me away.
We walked around for some exposure and LO AND BEHOLD! We stumble upon the sexiest AN judge ever! Naturally, we needed pics with our "celebrity".
More PA members arrive and we finally get a big enough group that we had to pose outside. On the way out, one of the con "usher chicks" screaming at us "GIRLS! MOVE!" ... She was kinda dorky so I blasted her with a sarcastic "OOOOKKAAAY!!!" and rolled my eyes. At summer camp, we teach the youngins to say "please". Once outside, we photoshooted until sun down. Leo and Oliva finally arrive and we all watch them change in the parking lot wooo~~
The Original Six gathered for a few pics. (Coles, Cha, Wendy, Aaron, Krystal and me) We used to play together on RO as a guild. GO GO VOLTS!!
We headed to dinner at Milestones and needless to say a few of us for pretty drunk. Germ was smashed and so was I. I vaguely remember taking sips of EVERYONE'S drink (hello AIDS) and pretending my sugar was crack. Haha. At one point, I actually sipped up all the sugar from the table... I remember laying on the street because I saw it in The Notebook and OFF Girl's frantic screams soon after I did that. *another evil cackle*
Late that night, the OFF girls practiced our masq skit (quite unsoberly) and we landed into bed around 3am. I DISTINCTLY remembered Hugo, Jean and me sleeping on one bed (in that order left to right)...
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Saturday -
Someone's alarm went off and I moaned and rolled over. My leg brushed up against another soft leg and I instinctually tried to spoon and snuggle with Jean. Good thing I opened my eyes! HOLY FACK IT'S HUGO! WTF?!?!?
XD Apparently she got too much of my body heat last night and "rolled over him". Uhuh.
OFF decided to wear RO in the morning. We all went outside the TCC again for some good photoshoots in the sunlight. Around 2, OFF changed into our Lolita costumes and that got more attention than I had expected. While we went to visit Mike @ Anime IKU again, it took us about half an hour to get there since we were stopped for pictures every 30 seconds!
After checking in with Mike (and realizing most of our biz cards were gone, especially that ones that were autographed) we split up for a while and enjoyed the con. I stopped by a few friends in Artist Alley and Dealers Room from high school. I chatted with Kinnee for a while, she was real busy as usual ^^. I stopped at Maiji's AA table and swooned over her RO art. Haha, I could finally identify the classes now that I've played the game. And finally at Sherry's AA table who wanted a copy of the magazine.
The OFF girls met up again and it was time to rush to the Double Tree for masquarade!! On the way there, we were stopped a zillion times again for pictures. We got half way and realized that if we didn't shake our big poofy asses, we were going to be late. Three guys saw us walking by and their dialogue was this XD:
Guy 1: Holy shit guy, take a pic!!
Guy 2: *rustling for camera*
Guy 3: Man, hurry up!
*OFF Girls posing for them*
Guy 2: *fiddling with camera* It's not working!!!
OFF Girls: We really have to go guys >_< We're really sorry.
Guy 2: It's broken!!!
Guy 1: I oughta knock you upside the head! It's not everyday you have four beautiful women waiting for you to take their picture! Useless!
Nothing extraordinary came from the masq except they had an emergency lock-down because a "child" was missing. The way the staff came in and told us to all sit down and be quiet, I thought there was a gunman on the loose or something. Turns out it was a 14 year old girl who had sneaked off with her boyfriend... Oookaaay. The masq was delayed about an hour.
OFF Girls held a private photoshoot session outside the green room after masq had ended. We quickly went back to the hotel and got ready for the dance. Apparently they were holding some sort of ball thing at the same time as the JPop dance but it cost $10 to go in. Um, no thanks. I'll keep my prom @ prom. I heard they played Yatta... wtf? At a ball?
Anyway, I had forgotten where I put my pass a few times and I finally figured out where it was...
Sure the Jpop dance stank of BO but then as we were leaving and passed the Moonlit Ball dance room ... I'm it's smelled like puke, sweat, piss and cheese. *gag* Pay to go in there? Nooooo thanks.
I visited the PA hotel room that night and got a little drunk again. I really didn't intend to drink, except I hadn't eaten all day and Coles kept telling me to "try this". Needless to say, I didn't return to my room until morning.
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Sunday -
We all rushed to get our stuff to check out of the hotel and DING DING DING, we took after pictures. Brace yourselves...
As we were leaving, the housemaids went into the PA room and I heard them yell "OH MY GOD! This isn't right. This isn't right... [x4]" Oops. Well I guess you kind of have to expect it if you are working as "housekeeping" for a hotel. You kind of have to work at work.
We reached the Double Tree and we picked up our ribbons and our trophy. Yay trophy! We earned it as a GROUP!!
Sunday was a calm down day. We participated in the Fashion Show but left before they announced the winners. It's not a big deal if we aren't there for the recognition, we know we had fun and that's what matters the most.
So after one last look around, we went back to the Double Tree for some final Lolita photoshoots. Many people had to leave early at this con so the rest of us just relaxed until even after the con ended. So far, this was my favourite con!! It just gets better every year!!
