Man for me this all started on Thursday, getting ready to go. I wanted to head out by 3 or 4 pm, so in the morning I went out with my mom for a bit and did some errans. I came home, and finshed packing up a bit than had to run out with my sister, it was still before noon so I thought I'd get back to the house by at least 2pm to take my bath and head out. No such luck, I got back to the house after 4pm because we ended up having to drive all over the place just to find a Sam club that had what I wanted. After driving around the world I got us each something to eat than took her home. Once I got home I took my bath, no way I was hitting the road without doing that first. Than came the drive. I got on the road sometime around 5:45-6pm and basically drove all the way through with only like 3 stops... besides for stopping for gas which was another 3 stops. This was the fastest I ever made it out here, at parking outside at 5am Friday morning.
Now I figured I'd get some sleep in the car, though the neighbor has one of those lights that come on to a sensor... and well it kept shinning right in my car at me. So I didn't really get to sleep. I didn't want to wake anyone up, so I waited in the car till I saw life inside the house. After seeing life inside I tried calling a few times to see if Pichu was awake, though no answer. Around 7:30am I didn't feel as bad about the idea of waking her up, so I went up and knocked. Her mom answered the door, and sure enough she was asleep. Of course she wasn't excepting me until around 9pm at night so it kind of surprised her.
Animedir was over, (I met her at Anime Vegas when I met Pichu). So they got up and started moving around, we went to BK for breakfast. It was nice getting a chance to hang out before heading out. I wasn't even really tired. After BK we came back to Pichu's house and watched some of the video from Anime Next 2003. Though Animedir had to go to the doctors so we took her there and dropped her off. Than came back to Pichu's house again this time waiting for Catman to show up, since he was giving me a ride to the train station.
While waiting for him I got to meet all of Pichu's pets. She's got two birds, one of which reminds me of some of the birds I had in the past and by the brightness of the feathers I think he's a boy. He's figure trained and seems to like being whisled too. The other one I haven't gottan to know to well, though it's talking to me right now. She's also got two cats, one is very shy so I've only seen it a few times. Though Tigger is a friendly cat. He lets me pet him, and I been playing with him a bit.
When Catman got here, Pichu and I had to part ways since she had to go to work. Catman gave me a ride to the train station and told me where to go from there, and I said bye to him and went on my way. I learned an important lesson... sprint phones do not work in the subways here. I was on the phone with Fae when it cut me off, I called her back when I got back into the city and she was on the phone with me as I looked for the Penn Plaza (which is when I learned there's more than one building with that name on it out here). Once I found the right place, I said bye to Fae and got my ticket into the covention.
Now the first so many people got Heavy Metal toys here, first they went to give me Kerrie... though I stopped a worker and asked if they had any Julie's left and they only had one and gave it to me instead. So I was happy, I got a Julie toy
Than I went and started looking around. My search was for Scott, any 4Kids people, or Dave Sims First bit of searching... nothing people were still setting up and the guest were being switched all around. The place seemed more like a mess than a convention. Infact I was disappointed with the set up. I found the actor area with the Harry Potter people (talked to one of them asking him about the movie a little), Peter Tork is up there so I kind of said a small hi to him since he watched me walk by, than I went over and found the Artist alley area. Which is on the other side of the floor... while walking through there I found a friend of mine from Motor City Comic Con and stopped talking to him for a bit.
While talking to him, they sat Dave Sims right next to him! So that was kind of cool, but not too long after Dave sat down he was moved to the other side of the floor closer to where the stars are. So I made sure to take note of where he was being moved too. Than I walked around a little bit. Some girls stopped me and asked to interview me... kind of surprised me, seem to get that at Cons a bit, but before it was because I ran a booth at the con. I talked with the girls and a guy over heard the interview and moved in and sold me some TMNT pins, but the deal was I would buy the pins so I could have the board they were on which was a TMNT board. So he agreed to the sale, than I finished the interview with the girls. I went back to my friend's table and he offered me to leave my stuff there so my hands weren't over crowded.
Than I went wandering again, I walked around that place at least 3 times before Scott showed up. I went over and introduced myself to Scott and met Dennie as well which is a back ground artist for the TMNT series. So I stood and talked with them for awhile. While there, Shredder called me and I told him where to find us. So he came around and joined in on talking. Really I'm surprised how long I stood there talking with Scott, I usually try to walk around the convention a bit and not be there the full time. Though there wasn't anything at this convention I really needed to go too otherwise. While talking to Scott the guy who sold me the pins came down stairs and saw me telling me they got some TMNT posters and for me to go up and tell them that I'm the one who bought the backing for the TMNT pins. So I went up there, and they had Seven posters. I bought two of them, the other five I have. Than went back down stairs. Now I was getting tired and Scott could tell so he let me sit behind the table next to him.
Scott brought a lot of cool stuff to show us, including some very very nice art pieces that he's done. I really enjoyed going through his book of work. It was interesting seeing some more of the Scott-Toons and other drawings. I got two favorites of his work, one of which was in a program and looks very very well done and active. It's of time square and all this different stuff is going on... you can stare at it for a long time and keep spotting something new and interesting. The other one I like is for 10 Little Indain show, it's half a skull with a feathered hat. Really really nice work!
I went back up to my friend's table and got my bag of stuff that was up there and went back down and sat with Scott for the rest of the day. He was very nice and seemed to be enjoying the conversation as much as Shredder and I were. The funny thing is, which Scott even said himself. He looks like Baxter Stockman from the series, so it's kind of like we're sitting there talking with Baxter Stockman, but much nicer than the guy on TV
When Dennie got up and started to pack up, so did Scott. Shredder was waiting for his folks to show up, and I was doing phone calls with Pichu to find out what we were doing once I got back. We said our good byes to Scott, we might get to see him on Sunday. I hung out with Shredder till his mom and sister got there, than I went on my way back to the train station. I met up with Catman and Pichu once I got back to their side of town than we went for pizza.
After pizza we came back to her place, and watched some TMNT. I think it was after 11 that I finally went to sleep.
So far today I'm up, she's not yet. Though when she gets up she's gotta get ready and head to work. Than RedBarron is taking me back to the bus station. I should get some cash out of an ATM today, so later I'll give him gas money for doing this for me.
I'm going to get ready for the new day and catch TMNT today.
So I'll be around till 11.
