Well, it's taken me a little while, and I've been to another convention in the mean time, but I'm back to blog about the rest of Anime Expo! (Then I'll blog about Otakon and my whirlwind trip surrounding it.) Okay, so I have to admit, I don't really remember much of Saturday. At all. But it's not because a lot of time has passed on Sunday of the convention I couldn't remember what had happened Saturday. I remember how it started and how it ended, and that's pretty much it. The started way too early, to claim my dealer room space I had to be at the dealer room doors at 8 am. (8 am at a con!)Cat helped me lug my stuff down and we got dealer's badges from Lynn (such a nice lady!) and I, Mishi and Eric got our stuff set up. Rod turned up a little later with his and Mishi's 3 year old son. Such a cutie, and well-behaved for a 3 year old. He liked the buttons so I gave him a couple. ^_^ Rod spent most of the day riding the escalator with him to keep him entertained. I sold a lot of buttons and the day dragged in the morning and then flew in the afternoon. The dealer's room was open from 10 am to 6 and really, I hardly remember any of what happened during that time. (Other then my booth was right next to the Clega booth... it was selling a lot of Ball-Jointed Doll stuff. Since I've been looking at them for months before hand seeing them close up more or less cinched the deal for me. I knew eventually I'd have to get one.) I also met Grace and Deda sometime during the day. I have no idea when. I swear, once I get behind my table my brain shuts off and any sense of time is completely lost. I spoke to one or two people who figured out I was Merrow. That was the one very disappointing thing about Expo. A bunch of people had planned to stop by my table in the Artist Alley, and I had no way to tell them that I'd been moved to a completely different place. =/ I mostly had to depend on people either recognizing the hat or seeing my name on the card and asking if that was me. (Which some people actually did, and one girl looked at my card and squealed which made my day.) The thing I like most about cons is getting to talk to people in person. Dealer's room is so impersonal, no one expects to really be able to chat with a vendor there. In the Artist Alley people know you're a fan so they're more likely to talk. Once the dealer's room closed we met up with Deda, Grace, Suey, Van and Cat and we once again left the con. I never leave the con... and yet, here I was, again, leaving the con... We visited more Japanese bookstores, this time Kinokuya. It was pretty funny. Van practically raped their manga magazine section, she had thier counter *covered*. It was like a scene out of the Read or Die Ova. Especially at the end when they realised she was the girl who has the same amount mailed to her each month through subscriptions. (As my uncle says, they looked like they could have kissed her full on the lips and been damn happy about it.) Grace, Deda, Suey and I sat in the car as we waited and looked a the Pinky St. figures they Grace and Deda had bought while we waited for Van to conclude her monsterous purchase. We were all hungry and talked Cat and the now poor Van into getting something to eat. We settled on the diner attached to the hotel. Van did a little story-time with the latest episode of Fruits Basket from Hana To Yume which Grace and I swooned over. It was really fun sitting and chatting with everyone about various mangas we were all reading. It was like a live action friday night RSC chat. ^_^ Everyone was pretty tired after the long day. Deda and Grace decided to crash, as did Van. Suey went to meet up with a friend of hers to watch anime. I would've liked to check out something of the con, which I expressed kind of late to Cat as she was driving back to the hotel. If I'd said something she would have been willing to drop me off and pick me up later, but I felt too guilty to do that and felt it would have been to inconvenient. The hotel room we got was great, but I would've liked one within walking distance so I wouldn't have to be so dependent on Cat and her car. I think Anime Expo is the con I spent the least amount of time doing "Con Stuff" at. When we got back to the hotel room we fully intended to go right to bed... But Adult Swim was on and Cat had never seen Samurai Champloo before. (It was the episode with the guy with the beat-boxing retainer.) We got through Samurai Champloo, Inuyasha and Spiral before Cat called it a day. I stayed up through Paranoia Agent getting my stuff ready for the next day. And that was Saturday.... and I think I'm going to post this now. I intend to finish this today... but we'll see how that goes. Only Sunday and a little bit of Monday left to go!