Have a moment at work to spare, so here’s the start.
We left Vancouver around 5pm on Wednesday, to head to Seattle for the night. The con started at 4pm on Thursday, and all flights that got there before 5pm were leaving at 6am from Vancouver (or Seattle), so we saved time and some money by leaving from Seattle instead. We saved about $200 each with this plan, mainly because we got a great deal on a hotel in Seattle because some family members of Patrick’s own a hotel that is about 10 minutes drive from the airport. Pretty awesome!
Getting down there was pretty uneventful, which is nice since the border wait can be lengthy at times. Patrick didn’t kill either of us while driving. We had some great conversation, and we checked in and got to sleep pretty easily. The next morning, we woke up at 4am. We ate leftover fried chicken for breakfast and it was glorious!
Get to Seatac, and because of excessive weather problems in Chicago, our flight was delayed by 3 hours. …I would have loved to have slept in for 3 hours. That 4 hour sleep was the beginning of con exhaustion for me. I tend to need 8 hours a night or I get a little wonky, and being at a gaming convention means that you prioritize the event over everything else (we’ll come back to this topic later). I managed to get an hour of sleep on the flight there so I’m almost human by the time we land.
I had a Necromunda tournament scheduled for 4pm that I had to miss, sine we landed around 5pm. Sucks, but we got to wander around and check things out instead. Lots of big rooms that were vibrating with gaming potential. A few smaller tournaments were running already. There was a vendor in one of the halls with big bins of bitz. Some people were playing the X-Wing with Star Trek models…and flying stands that were as tall as I am. We found some guys building a giant gargant. “Taking it to far” is the watchword for this event, and we had only just shown up with our naive smiles and wide eyes.
These guys were “taking it to far”. The center piece is a mini-TV that will be playing a music video. They were selling CDs done by the ork band.
WAAAGH!!
This place doesn’t have alcohol in their gas stations, unlike in Washington state, so we had a 15 minute walk to a liquor store, followed by a 15 minute walk back carrying a wine box full of beer. Heavy, but important to the weekend. I got an “Angry Orchard” cidar, which was delicious.
Back to our hotel and went to sleep – we have a Team Tournament to play in the morning!
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