I can’t believe in less than two weeks we’ll once again be
in Atlanta for Dragon Con. This year
everyone is able to make it and it’s going to be a blast being all together
again and the bonus is we were all able to find rooms in Downtown this year
instead of the airport, no more 1 hour commutes in by transit or expensive taxi
rides. Granted we aren’t staying in any
of the big 5 hotels but then for the cost of one room you need 6+ people to a
room in order to afford it, so no Thanks.
We don’t spend much time in the room anyway so why a big fancy
over-priced room when you can use that money to buy cool things. I’m hoping our room has a fridge and
kitchenette this year so we can store some food in there and skip some of the
lines for food and have more time for panels, games, shopping or photo taking.
Our original room did but I goofed and booked the wrong dates so not sure what
kind of room we’ll have after we realized the mistake and changed to the
correct dates.
The other thing I’m excited about is our long time friend
from California is flying to Seattle the day before and will be going with us
this year. I’m glad he’ll get to meet our other friends from Georgia,
Tennessee, and Alabama. Don may actually get to play games this year (which
never works out other years we’ve gone) with Kevin going. I’m hoping the panels list comes out in the
next few days so we can start planning on what we must see; we usually only
make 1 or 2 panels a day because of the line up times.
Every time we’ve gone I’ve always been a shorts and T-shirt
girl but I was talked into dressing up this year and I’m working on that
costume now. We had talked about doing
Steam punk this year with a couple of our friends but I couldn’t come up with
anything I liked so my Cosplay friend suggested a character based on something
I was watching and it all clicked. Maybe
next year I can go for Steam punk if I can find things I like this year to use
with it.
Someone Don works with also goes with a group of his friends
and this year he and my friend Lara are doing a costume together. I can’t wait to see how that turns out for
the Friday Night Archer party. Don and I talked about dressing up on Saturday
since it’s the big day for costumes but his co-worker made a good point that we’d
be constantly interrupted while we tried to hang out with our friend’s costume
watching so we will dress up Friday instead.
So this is the way to end the summer for us and we do it
every year. Maybe next year we will have
our family and be able to introduce our child to our friends.
All of us last year being goofy for the picture
