so a week later I suppose I should write down some rambling incoherent thoughts about the con before I forget them all.
First off its a long drive from Phoenix to Reno. 2nd Reno was a lot colder then I expected.It was like low 60s and overcast and windy.I was not prepared for that.I packed shorts and tshirts.I had to buy a pair of long pants Friday. So I picked up my badge thursday evening.That was really quick.Met up with a fur I and
was sharing the room with @Fraddas and got him situated. I wasnt excited about being in a casino on multiple floors at first.It took me a few days to get used to the layout.specially since the first day I was all wasted from 13 hours of driving. On top of thta my guts felt off most of the con as well.Im not sure if it was something I ate on the way to the con or what. Regardless it meant I didnt do too much at all after the dealers room closed each day but either have dinner or hang out in my hotel room. Speaking of which,I have no idea what the casinos hotel rooms where like.I decided to go a few months before the con and of course the main hotel was long sold out. That seems a common trend these days at fur cons. I stayed at a Quality Inn very close by.It was nothing special but was clean and had decent beds so it was fine.It had one of those crappy free breakfasts though.Id starve if they didnt have the waffle maker at least.That was really the only good part of it other then some bagels I put jelly or honey on. Anyway to the con itself,I liked the dealers room layout mostly.I liked the concept of the overflow dealers room being first giving them even more exposure then the main room.But since it wasnt free it was always half empty .Proving a small artist alley part would of been nice. The main dealer room had a small adult room connecting into it with photo ID check.I think thats a decent compromise to allow like dildo sellers like bad dragon to be there but not make the whole room seem like a sex expo trade show or some crap. I get the idea they were trying with the open area.But between the tricycles being ridden outside of it (almost running me over twice) and the wasted open space.I think it could of been used better.Even if it wasnt any dealer space added some tables and or tables with chairs would of been nice especially since they were selling food in the dealers room.I walked off to the nevada room to eat food i bought on Sunday when I was feeling too hungry to wait until dinner. That room was good sized and had lots of tables.What was even more impressive was the gaming room. Lots of stand up consoles of obscure japanese vieo games.I was very impressed! So the food options werent bad.Friday I did run off to Claimjumpers with my roomate.But the other days I ate there at the casino.There as a buffet (of course) a mexican restaurant/bar, a steakhouse,a 24 hour diner, a starbucks, a sub place,a yogurt place, a johnny rockets, a pizza place.I ate at johnny rockets and the mexican place called Catina.It was all decent food. Ok so on to what I bought, I bought a bottle opener,a mousepad and some books from Brae,I bought a charm of 2B from cheesycrocs,I got stickers and a commission from deadbombart,got some charms from lemoncreme, a cartoon tarrot deck and a judy hopps mini keychain daki from a dealer I cant remember and the website has seemed to have taken down the list of dealers from this years con already for some reason >:P , I bought a daki pillow case of ankha from animal crossing and a mini daki keychain pillow of isabelle from a dealer I cant remember the name of ans again I cant go to the con website and see anymore, bought a gator book by redicnomad, I got a cute animal crossing book and a commission by cinamoncune, stickers and a commisison from pmoss, some stickers from onnanoko , a commisison from portzebie, a commission from kacey,a commission from mango poptart, a commission from cutecumber,a commission suzibean, 2 commisisons from brian reynolds, a commission from tooiebird, a commission from mokusei kaze, a freebie from nanimoose,commission from giddeon, and a commission from hkasof. Overall I`d say I had a good time. The drive was a bit much on the 2 lane roads in the dark in northern Arizona.Maybe I`d try the longer drive that goes on the bigger roads.
