Hello my little kitties… I know it’s been quite a while since my last post. >.>
As many of you already know, I went down to Florida for the Mega-con convention. It was, needless to say, a blast.
I flew down to Florida on the Wednesday before the con. Kri’s husband was very nice and picked me up from the airport – saving me from an extremely expensive taxi ride to the hotel. After a quick stop to drop off some books and pick up Kri, we went to dinner at Wa before they took me to my hotel. Wa was an amazing experience and the food was absolutely to die for! Definitely going there again on my next visit to Florida.
Thursday was set-up day for the con. After a 2 hour wait in line (and we were there early!) we finally got our truck up to the loading docks. We had a little help in unloading the pallets, but once we got everything to our booth location, we dug right in and worked straight through to 8pm – when we just about collapsed from exhaustion and hunger! Let’s just say that the hot tub came in handy that night!
Friday morning we finished setting up and the doors opened at 1pm. From then on – it was non stop. Just a whirlwind of activity! I got to meet Mr. Picardo on one of my breaks that afternoon! It kinda surprised me because I was just walking around the dealers room with my camera,turned a corner, and there he was sitting at the Vulcan Event’s booth. He was really nice and I ended up getting a signed print and photo of him.
Later, after the dealers room had closed for the night, I went out with my in-laws to Tijuana Flats and Coldstone. It was fun catching up with them and seeing them. I got to hear a bunch of new stories about my new little nephew.
When I got back to the hotel, I ended up in the bar with my booth manager. We talked about the day, and how the show was going. I got a bit tipsy, but had tons of fun when we ended up talking with some of the top names in the comic industry who’d ended up in the bar that night too!
Saturday night was the night of the Rave – which was alright. The DJ wasn’t the greatest, but I enjoyed getting to rave again. Rave dancing is one of my favorites, probably because it’s such a free form of expression.
Sunday was the longest day of them all. Not only did we have to get up early after a long-ish night at the rave, but after the show closed at 5pm, we had to completely breakdown our booth and load our truck back up. The good news was we’d sold a pallet and a half worth of merchandise at the show, and that was one less pallet we had to pack!
Overall, I felt like the show was a success. I got to meet a fair number of artists, make some new contacts for work, I even ran into a few friends from college that I hadn’t planned on seeing! I loved getting to see some of the stars that were there and all the cosplayers in their inventive, and sometimes revealing, costumes.
Once I get through all the business cards and flyers I got, I’ll post a new page with links to my favorites. I have to share the love, ‘artist’ is a hard career to follow!
