Day Three:

I awoke on the morning after the rave with almost no voice left. As those around me could tell you, I was the Incredible Frog-Boy all day. I didn't feel so bad, but I think all the cough drops (about 80 in three days) had really screwed up my esophagus.

Packing: Essentially, all we had time for once we awoke was getting our stuff assembled and moved out to the cars. I went down and got one of those luggage carts from the concierge to haul our stuff around, and got mine out by ten, but everyone else was still taking showers and getting dressed. It took another two trips--and two hours--without the cart to finally clean out the room. Somewhere in the middle of that, Colin disappeared back to the dealers' room, but then, he had pretty much nil in the way of luggage. The rest of us more than made up for him with our dozens of small grocery bags of stuff. Lesson: Bring extra empty duffel bags!

But we did get checked out by noon, after which there was not a whole lot going on. (Note to Staff: If you don't want people to line up at noon for a 3pm event, put on some more interesting stuff elsewhere.) We walked around, took a bunch of pics, got slurpees and thoroughly inedible food from 7-11, and hung out with other SCMB people until...

Sunday pics:

He's Magically Delicious!

Saxy as Seraphim, and a Dark Chi.

Filia (from Slayers)

Cye (from Ronin Warriors)

Sesshomaru (from Inu-Yasha)

Duo Maxwell (from Gundam Wing)

Wu-Fei Chang (from Gundam Wing)

Crowd Scene.
note the Robin, Joker, and Spidey at center.
wtf?!?

ph34r Lady Vincira's claw-o'-doom!

Hermione gets the tentacle treatment.
Wow, this is just like bad fanfic porn!

Closing Ceremonies:

Since we got there waaaaay early and just sat in a likely place outside the Emerald Ballroom, I wasn't surprised when the line wranglers arrived to corral us with caution tape. I was surprised, though, that they didn't run it out the front doors and around the hotel, like the reg line, because it was a really nice day, and they could've avoided all kinds of headaches in that hallway. Seii crafted a headband out of caution tape, and many people compared our dealers' room finds, so we got to see the Vincira Crane Machine in action. It started to get really bleedin' hot in there, with otaku packed in like your proverbial sardines, and smelling about as sweet. Thankfully, the yaoi antics of the guys just behind us in line kept everyone entertained...or as Dude Love remarked, "We are so bored."

Closing pics:

sorry, no pics of this event.