Hey guys! Sorry for the serious hiatus, haha XD; I've had such a crazy last couple of weeks! From Kuroneko Con to Seattle to gah... everything!!
OKAY
This will probably end up being too long to read, so if you don't feel like it, I don't blame you~
Also, for any pictures, I'm sorry if they're blurry, but I took them all on my phone because I'm camera-less... so please bear with me D:
Let's begin *sigh*:
Thursday was
's party (actually Monday I went to silverwood but I got hurt and don't feel like going there)
it was really fun, and my present was late XD;;;;; but oh well!! We ended up eating cake and hanging at her house most of the time, then our group split into two (since we had two cars) and made out way, slowly, to the local Chinese buffet~
Afterwards,
and I spent the night at Jesse+Jordan's place. It was fun, we actually visited Riida's house on the way over there and saw her animals. We got to say hi to the horses (I got to see Kira~) before heading to the chicken coop. We got everyone to hold a chicken before Krystal decided to catch them herself. Very entertaining, if I do say so myself...
Have a picture of Jordan holding chickens:
i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv…Then we ate at their restaurant and Jesse jumped in the lake XDDD
The following morning we all got up and despite the water being FREEZING AS HELL, we all jumped in the lake (following Jesse's lead the night before XD). Regardless, I had a good time ~
The next event was Kuroneko Con. My dad took me in the morning during opening ceremonies, and I met up with
The first day was awesome! I didn't go to a whole lot of panels or events, but I enjoyed running around and trolling everyone as Izaya (especially Kori~).
A lot of the time was spent in the dealers hall, even though the doujinshi seller wasn't there this year D': (so much sadness). I did get a shitload of stuff, though... And there was a table selling yaoi, but it was super expensive...
I also met up with a lot of people whom I hadn't seen for a long time. It was really nice to see everyone again~
Uhhhh let's see, some fun stuff that happened on day 1: I danced the Hare Hare Yukai with a girl as Izaya, and sang Love is War in karaoke, thus killing myself due to lack of oxygen (so yes, I am now a ghost). Said hi to Lindsey in her AWESOME Liger Zero Jagar cosplay (I hope I spelled that right). But in all seriousness, she looked amazing XD.
We had a Durarara!! photoshoot for Kori, Trina and I (as Shizuo, Kida and Izaya), and hung around with my sister (as Honey from Ouran) and Sebby (as Kaito from Vocaloid).
Oh also, Test 7 did Durarara!! the same day that Kori and I did. So I dunno if they have pictures up yet or not? But they were really awesome! So go check them out, ok?
Jesse, Jo, Riida and Ariel (sp?) went out to get food around 1? but ended up getting lost and came back with taco bell for Trina and I during the first bit of the rave. Luckily in the meantime, Sebby went to go get McDonalds and brought me back fries that I shared with Trina
Bah, the rave.... I raved... SO... HARD.
I mostly danced with Jesse and Sebby, but we managed to get
out there for a little while! /accomplishment!
The DJ and setup was AWESOME this year, but nobody really stayed past the first hour or two.................. including us (OTL)
got picked up by our dad, and I went with Trina, Riida, Jo and Jesse to their hotel a few miles away from SFCC
When we got there, we all decided to go swimming in the outdoor pool. Because of such last minute plans, nobody had a swimsuit, and the water was really cold. (We swam in our underwear LOL) Ariel was the first one in (jumped in as soon as we got out there, crazy girl!). We literally had to drag Riida in, but once we all were in, it wasn't hard to stay there.
Jesse got the awesome idea for a chicken fight, so Riida got on Jordan's shoulders and I got on Jesse's and we fought. Of course Me+Jesse won /beams.
After that, Trina, Jo and Ariel went home while Riida, Jesse and I stayed in the hotel. We hung out for a while before Riida's mom came to get us (at like 10:30PM) to get dinner.... but because everything seems to close at 9 or 10, we ended up driving around Spokane for almost 2 hours before stopping at a Perkins and eating there. The whole time we were playing our own version of "yellow car" which we NEVER followed through on /hint hint
I still have the scores (hopes they will see this)
We drove back to the hotel and Riida insisted on watching a horror movie (A tale of two sisters). So the two of us did while Jesse fell asleep.
The next morning we caught a cab and went back to SFCC. I mostly hung around
and wandered here and there. There wasn't a whole lot to do......... I got more merchandise and stepped into a panel or two, but that was about it before my dad came to pick up me and Em. (I got to hang out with Dee and Jayne, though!)
After that I basically went home, played Sta*Sky ~in summer~ and packed for Seattle.
Okaaaay... let's see.... the people I met up with:
If I missed anyone, let me know (I'm an airhead, I promise it's not on purpose!)
Let's sseeeeeeee. The morning after KNC, I left for Seattle. We made the entire drive in 5 hours! It seemed really short (probably because we didn't get lost this time, lol). We ended up staying literally ACROSS the street from the space needle.
Here's a picture of the view from our window:
i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv…So guess what we did? Visit the space needle, of course!!
We went aaaaaall the way up (much to my terror, being
super acrophobic) and took pictures along the skywalk thingy XDD (none of which I have, sadly)
Then we went aaaaaaall the way back down and got on the monorail heading downtown. We got off the monorail and got lost trying to find the underground bus system XD; So when we finally found the station, we waiting in line for 45 minutes to ask where to get tickets, but when we got up there the woman at the counter told us it was free..........................
SO
we got on the buses and headed to the international district...
I met up with Angie and her friend at Uwajimaya, and we shopped a lot in Kinokuniya XD; Everything there is sooooooo expensive... except some of the more popular Japanese manga (like a volume of D.Gray Man would be between 5.50 and 7 dollars, while a volume of Saiyuki would be between 11.50 and 15 dollars, roughly)
My dad limited me to 20 dollars to spend (I ended up spending 33, much to his disapproval, but he didn't stop me!) so I only got a couple books and a keychain... OTL
After saying goodbye to Angie, we headed back through the bus system and monorail and went back to our hotel. While crossing the street to go to our hotel, some stupid guy in a Mercedes didn't see the red light, or the cars going the other way, OR the people crossing the road. So he missed us by like 6 inches and T'd another car....... BAH.... the sound made me really sick D:
After we got back, the three of us (my sister, dad and I) hung around and read/napped until
came by. We had dinner with her in the restaurant in the hotel and watched Jeopardy (that guy won like 35,000..... bitch please!)
Then Morgen and I alone walked over to the fountain by the Science center and chatted until it got dark and she walked me home~
The next morning we left around 10AM to catch the Ferry over by La Conner (go figure XD) in Anacortes
we rode the ferry for an hour and a half over to Friday Harbor, and drove aaaaaaaaaallllll the way across the island to the OTHER harbor (Roche Harbor) then got lost trying to find out cabin......
After a while we FINALLY got checked in, and decided to go swimming down in the pool by the shore. (Ironic, right? Why not swim in the effing ocean?... oh well) We were there for about 5 minutes when a huuuuge gust of wing knocked down one of the big umbrellas by the chairs and stuff, and knocked a huge hole in the guy's head.... so they kicked us all off the premises and called in a rescue copter and everything. Talk about an adrenaline rush...
We went back and hung out in the cabin for a while, before going out to explore Roche Harbor on foot.... we ended up getting told that it was originally an old Lime Processing plant and it burned down a few years ago before they built the resort on top of it (which basically in my mind means the whole entire place if effing haunted....) We even ran into a group of paranormal investigators and I chatted with them for a while
The resort was reeeeally pretty and had a bunch of gardens and booths for local artists to sell their stuff~ We chatted with this one girl for a while and she ended up giving us a painting and a photograph for free! sdlkjfaiowefjlaskdjf
Here's a picture of the entrance to the garden:
i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv…The next day we drove around the other side of the island and watched Orca's swimming in the straight! It was really cool, one of the came RIGHT up next to the shore (as much as it could without getting beached) and breached, it was so awesome XDDD
We drove down to Friday harbor again and walked around. We went into this cool old used bookstore and got a bunch of old books. We also had lunch next to the ocean and had fresh fish~ It was really good
Then, because we couldn't think of anything else to do, we went to go see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 in the little tiny Friday Harbor cinema XD I CRIEDDDDD /dies forever
I won't spoil anything for those who haven't read it/seen it yet, but it was REALLY good C: They did a good job bringing the book to life~
On the way out of the theater, I spotted a girl with a Fullmetal Alchemist jacket on. I stopped her and we chatted a bit and now we're friends
It's funny the kind of places you find people you have something in common with, huh XD
We left the next morning to go back on the Ferry, saw more Orca's and drove home (it took us 7 hours this time....)
We stopped in Ellensburg originally to visit Dean and Jayne, but they were busy so we just ate and left...
We got back Thursday afternoon, and on Friday I went over to Trina's house to spend the night. We hung out, karaoke'd, played with the puppy and just had a lot of fun. On Saturday we went to hastings and I got a shitload of manga for reeeeeally cheap XD
Then Riida joined us and we went to Borders for their going-out-of-business sale. I got two magazines (Otaku USA and Gothic Beauty) there as well
Riida stayed the night and we watched "hard candy" and stayed up until 5:30AM XD;;;
We met up with Trina later, went BACK to hastings and stayed there for 4 hours waiting for her mom to pick us up XD;;;
Then I stayed with Trina AGAIN and we karaoke'd more and just played around~
Okay let's see.... the manga I got:
Fairy Cube 1
Merupuri 1
St. Dragon girl 2 (from Jordan)
Neck and Neck 2 (from Jordan)
Fools Gold 1 (from Jordan)
Godchild 4
The Cain Saga 2
B.O.D.Y 1
Beauty Pop 1+2
"X" 1-2 (Japanese)
Saiyuki 2
Saiyuki Gaiden 1 (Japanese)
Aishiteruze baby 1, 5+6
Nana 2, 8+9, 14+15
Get Backers 1+2
Hana Kimi 1+2, 4, 6+7+8+9
Hellsing 1-5
Durarara!! (it's like a fanbook type volume... mostly with gag doujinshi stories and fanart from popular doujin circles, though I haven't bothered to start translating, LOL)
Yaoi manga:
Antique Bakery 2
Breath 1
Only the Ring Finger knows (novel)
Pics of merch from KNC/Seattle (not including a bunch of the manga above):
i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv…i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv…i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv…All in all I had an
AMAAAAZING week~
Future stuff and stuff not related to my personal life:
Okay so Tanabata was pretty recent right? Well Honeybee decided to celebrate!
They posted up basically what each character would do with his future (besides the heroine). It was actually really cool! They just a few days ago closed the link, but I have the pictures and few VERY rough translations of just a FEW characters...
Here's the link to the album on my photobucket:
s695.photobucket.com/albums/vv…Also, as for upcoming conventions, here is my status:
FandamoniumWhere?: Nampa, ID
When?: August 5-7
Cosplay?: undecided
Status?: 98% positive
Kumori ConWhere?: Vancouver, WA
When?: September 3-5
Cosplay?: undecided
Status?: 90% positive
Aki ConWhere?: Bellevue, WA
When?: October 7-9
Cosplay?: undecided
Status: 55% positive
So there you have it XD
Sorry to bombard you with all my crap, but I've been putting all this stuff off for sooooooo loooooooong sdlfjaweofijasdlfj