My trip to Yaoi-con! A day-by-day blow... or something like that...
So wow, Yaoi-con was FUCKING AWESOME. I was little worried about fitting in but have no fear, I just dorked out like everyone else and it was AWESOME.
Do realize I'm a native Californian and if you don't like the word AWESOME, you will be sadly disappointed with this post.
Here's Milly and I waiting for our flight in the lounge by the Virgin America lounge.
So on the flight out there, we tried to get an upgrade to First Class. Since the plane was bursting at the seams, this was not going to happen. But sitting in coach on Virgin America is like flying in First. It looks like we're in a bar too, not a plane!
We watched TV and my husband watched Cars 2. We had a blast and I'm now in love with this popcorn.
http://www.479popcorn.com/index.html
FINALLY! I'm home in California. Well, not really home but I'm in California. Florida is my home now, with cats. (They are now hiding under the bed, scared I'm taking them back to the kennel) And where is my first stop? Okay, yeah, the hotel, where they have the bed request wrong. So off to my fave burger place to eat while they fix that.
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(If you've never had an In-And-Out burger, you're missing out.)
Back to fall into bed. The next day, we hit Japantown! I'm so excited and we walk down to the train. We pass In-And-Out *cries* and head into the city. Well once we were in the city, it's a huge hike from the train station near there to the actual location so we had to take the bus. And the people are exceptionally nice. I don't know if we had tourist written on our foreheads or what but people stopped us, knew we were lost and helped us go the right way. To all of these people, thank you!
ZOMG!!! We are in Japantown and it is TOTALLY AWESOME!
We shop in complete and total awe, barely able to speak. After hours are me squeeing and Hubby saying "Oh that's quite nice" we sit down for a nommie lunch/dinner.
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We take a taxi home because I can even wait for the bus and I am so exhausted, my legs are shaking. I fall into bed and sleep for a couple of hours and wake up fully refreshed. We head downstairs to see some of the Yaoi-con people have arrived and we watch them being geeks, while totally geeking out ourselves!
Hubby takes me to a lovely birthday dinner and I had filet with blue cheese (not supposed to have blue cheese but oh well) and then we meandered a bit.
And we meet Morgan Hawke! :D Who is awesome! www.morganhawke.com
So bed for us, because Morgan has been up for 48 hours and I need my beauty rest. Next morning I wake up and head down to brekkie.
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! Happy Birthday to me! (I'm excited, can you tell?)
Anyway, we go to Japantown to do a huge amount of birthday shopping and I splurged on my lil sis and luckily, no one called to sing happy birthday to me, just wish me happy birthday.
And of course I have my awesome birthday dessert! YUM.
Then I eat the strawberry and it had mold in it. I'm highly allergic to penicillin so I'm hoping I don't have an allergic reaction. I also realize I have a dairy intolerance and this was the worst idea so far of the trip. Whoops.
Anyway, we have to head back because I'm meeting with the other DSP authors. So we head back and I run around the room and get cleaned up and head down to the Monterey Room to say hi.
AND ZOMG... I meet Mary Calmes. I then proceed to dork out and act like an idiot and be totally stupid. Yeah. *hides* I also meet some of my other fave authors and I have a moment where I can't believe this is what I do. I'm an AUTHOR. Wow.
So I get my badge and sorta help set-up. (I carried a box) And then it's time for a bit of nom. I head to In-and-Out for some one-on-one time with a burger. It was lovely :D
Then I head back to dork out over Mary Calmes some more. And Amy Lane gives me the most awesome I have a picture of it but it won't upload. I'm sad.
When I get back to the room, my ickle Milly doll is gone. For those of you who don't know, my hubby gave me a little stuffed cat for our first Christmas together. She has traveled everywhere with me, including when my husband and I were separated for nine months waiting for my visa. She's kinda ratty but I love her! She was found though. She had an ickle adventure! She said I was like Little Orphan Annie and I escaped in the laundry.
More later!
Do realize I'm a native Californian and if you don't like the word AWESOME, you will be sadly disappointed with this post.
Here's Milly and I waiting for our flight in the lounge by the Virgin America lounge.
So on the flight out there, we tried to get an upgrade to First Class. Since the plane was bursting at the seams, this was not going to happen. But sitting in coach on Virgin America is like flying in First. It looks like we're in a bar too, not a plane!
We watched TV and my husband watched Cars 2. We had a blast and I'm now in love with this popcorn.
http://www.479popcorn.com/index.html
FINALLY! I'm home in California. Well, not really home but I'm in California. Florida is my home now, with cats. (They are now hiding under the bed, scared I'm taking them back to the kennel) And where is my first stop? Okay, yeah, the hotel, where they have the bed request wrong. So off to my fave burger place to eat while they fix that.
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(If you've never had an In-And-Out burger, you're missing out.)
Back to fall into bed. The next day, we hit Japantown! I'm so excited and we walk down to the train. We pass In-And-Out *cries* and head into the city. Well once we were in the city, it's a huge hike from the train station near there to the actual location so we had to take the bus. And the people are exceptionally nice. I don't know if we had tourist written on our foreheads or what but people stopped us, knew we were lost and helped us go the right way. To all of these people, thank you!
ZOMG!!! We are in Japantown and it is TOTALLY AWESOME!
We shop in complete and total awe, barely able to speak. After hours are me squeeing and Hubby saying "Oh that's quite nice" we sit down for a nommie lunch/dinner.
[image error]
We take a taxi home because I can even wait for the bus and I am so exhausted, my legs are shaking. I fall into bed and sleep for a couple of hours and wake up fully refreshed. We head downstairs to see some of the Yaoi-con people have arrived and we watch them being geeks, while totally geeking out ourselves!
Hubby takes me to a lovely birthday dinner and I had filet with blue cheese (not supposed to have blue cheese but oh well) and then we meandered a bit.
And we meet Morgan Hawke! :D Who is awesome! www.morganhawke.com
So bed for us, because Morgan has been up for 48 hours and I need my beauty rest. Next morning I wake up and head down to brekkie.
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! Happy Birthday to me! (I'm excited, can you tell?)
Anyway, we go to Japantown to do a huge amount of birthday shopping and I splurged on my lil sis and luckily, no one called to sing happy birthday to me, just wish me happy birthday.
And of course I have my awesome birthday dessert! YUM.
Then I eat the strawberry and it had mold in it. I'm highly allergic to penicillin so I'm hoping I don't have an allergic reaction. I also realize I have a dairy intolerance and this was the worst idea so far of the trip. Whoops.
Anyway, we have to head back because I'm meeting with the other DSP authors. So we head back and I run around the room and get cleaned up and head down to the Monterey Room to say hi.
AND ZOMG... I meet Mary Calmes. I then proceed to dork out and act like an idiot and be totally stupid. Yeah. *hides* I also meet some of my other fave authors and I have a moment where I can't believe this is what I do. I'm an AUTHOR. Wow.
So I get my badge and sorta help set-up. (I carried a box) And then it's time for a bit of nom. I head to In-and-Out for some one-on-one time with a burger. It was lovely :D
Then I head back to dork out over Mary Calmes some more. And Amy Lane gives me the most awesome I have a picture of it but it won't upload. I'm sad.
When I get back to the room, my ickle Milly doll is gone. For those of you who don't know, my hubby gave me a little stuffed cat for our first Christmas together. She has traveled everywhere with me, including when my husband and I were separated for nine months waiting for my visa. She's kinda ratty but I love her! She was found though. She had an ickle adventure! She said I was like Little Orphan Annie and I escaped in the laundry.
More later!
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