Definitely, definitely the best con i've ever been to. I'm satisfied! 7 hour drive, but totally worth it. My friend staffed this year so we all got some pretty sweet hook ups
Friday:
-SKIN concert was scary. I wasn't planning on going, since Exhibit hall was so big and I was like, "eh, whatever", but then there were really crazy delays (like 3 hours) and they were handing out free tickets. Onnnlly they didn't let me enter since I had my rifle props. Therefore I had to call my friend and ask what his car looked like so I could shove my props under. The car was a black bmw. I didn't see a black bmw and the only one was a grey one, so I just stuck em under there. Turns out it was some random persons car, but my props weren't stolen XD WHEW! Crazy. Anyways, SKIN was scaryyy. I sat at like the furthest possible seat, and everyone was a blur. The lights were all seizure-y and I couldn't hear for the longest time after that. Gackt spent a longass time introducing the members XD. Really fun though.
Saturday:
-Went to Anna Tsuchiya (is that how you spell it?) concert. It was pretty good. Blond hair looks funny on her. After that we waited for SOS Brigade concert. I didn't cosplay since I thought we would wait in line in the sun, but we didn't..

Anyways, we just kinda chilled and checked out cosplayers. The concert thing whatever was pretttyy unrehearsed.. or whatever. It was very un-flowy. Still cool though. They all danced at the end.
Sunday:
Discovered the Japanese students @ artists alley and went crazy. Total, I bought around 25 pieces of original art. FUUUCCKk they were sooo good and cheap too. I was buying up half their tables. I'm pretty sure they all thought I was crazy.. Ended up spending all 60 bucks within half an hour, and had to run to atm machine to get more money. Got a commission of Riku + sora, cloud, and byakuya. There was this one girl who was selling a realllly pretty riku/sora picture, and it was 20 bucks. I only had 23 bucks in my wallet, so I kinda walked away, but then ran back and bought it. It was funny how suprised she was. Bigass gasp and everything

I also missed Oreskaband for the KH gathering. I kinda regret it, but the gathering was really fun too. Ehh.
Masquerade was REALLY GOOD! I don't even bother going to fanime masquerade anymore cause it's that bad, but this one passed by really quickly. Half time show was hella awesome too. EMC MONKEYS!! They did a realllllyyy nice Ninja vs Pirates show, with some avatar mixed in too! Ending was kinda random, but I enjoyed it lots.
Pros:
-Dealers room was 19 alleys long. It was literally the size of costco! So fucking awesome..
-Really cute haruhi cosplayer asked me for a photo
-Japanese artist alley
-I socialized...
Cons:
-Wasn't able to get a commission from :

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-My feet + back hurt like HELL