Red Deer Expo Post Mortem
Look at that vertical action on the display. I’m wearing a pretty dress! My hair is a mess, but that’s FINE.
Check out my other convention write-ups here:
– Calgary Expo 2016
– Hal-Con 2015
– Edmonton Expo 2015
– When Words Collide 2015
– Calgary Comic Expo 2015
– Hal-Con 2014
– Keycon 2014
– Hal-Con 2013
– C4 Winnipeg 2013
– When Words Collide 2013
– KeyCon 2013
General Impressions
Most of my impressions of the con are below in the “First Con” section, because there are a lot of them.
This was my first extended stay in Red Deer. I’ve driven through it to get to Edmonton. It’s about what I expected–as if someone chopped off a piece of MacLeod Trail and dumped it in the middle of the prairie. Sorry for the unromantic description. My Nova Scotian heart, used to oceans and lakes as natural city boundaries, doesn’t quite feel right in cookie-cuttered, constantly expanding metropolises. How does one know when the city ends? It doesn’t. It keeps on growing.
I stayed at Kate’s house on Friday night (and became integrated into her clan of kitties!!) and we drove up very early Saturday morning. We had to be ready to sell by 9:30am. That timing worked out (just barely!) because the two of us are pretty good at organizing ourselves, which is why we work well together. But it ended up being a very long Saturday. I’m also off coffee at the moment, which made the weekend even more long and stressful. I had to rely on sugary hot chocolate and green tea to keep me going instead of potent Starbucks caffeine. Big thanks to Kate for getting me through, being my brain when my brain wouldn’t brain the details, and just generally being there!! 
