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I did a lot of work this weekend, it was crazy! First of all, a large portion of my friends didn't know that I was going to be at the convention, so I had to keep it hush-hush. And then I had a big surprise planned for Saturday, that I worked on for a while with gunblazeex.

Minachiko stayed with me at my house this time, and we just drove up each day together which was a lot of fun~

Thursday: I helped set up the MangaGamer booth with kouryuu9 and then went out to dinner with all my school friends <3. Afterwards, we hung out at the inner harbor at dusk, which was gorgeous~ (and the weather was not bad either~)

Friday: I started out with the ugliest outfit: Keiichi Maebara. I even had an awesome mullet-y looking wig XD. The unattractiveness was amazing. I got to work a little before noon, and was joined by Jen who was dressed as Rena~. She was an adorable Rena. And even in her 4 inch heeled boots, she was still shorter than me in sneakers haha. I wish that I had gotten some photos with her though :(.
I worked really hard today. Throughout the day, I got calls from my friends that knew that I was at the convention and I hung out with them for a bit. Around 5, I decided that my binding was messing me up, so I changed to Chie Isurugi, and at the exact same time, CRH showed up and I hung out with them for a while. Eventually gunblazeex convinces me to take a break from work, so I browse the dealer's room with him for a bit, and we scout out locations for planned event for Saturday (we decide on the balcony as our location). I work until the dealer's room closes at 8 pm, help take down, and run on over to see the Yoshida Brothers concert with Minachiko. It was amazing~~~ <3 I was so happy. We left a little early to head home and finish up Rachel and Jack.

Saturday: Got up early since I needed to get to work at 10, which included both Minachiko and myself being super grumpy. I was really excited to wear Hazama today~ I honestly did not know how that costume would look when I put it all together (like the gloves, I made on Wednesday night XD). And Minachiko looked so beautiful as Rachel, and the costume was absolutely stunning~ While getting dressed, I also had to run around getting stuff ready for my lolsurprise. After we finally finished, I got to drive to the convention. Driving nearly 80 down rt. 95 blasting Smooth Criminal while Rachel disapproves in the passenger's seat with her skirt poof everywhere XD. It was so beautiful, I wish I could have captured that moment on film.

We got to the convention around 10/10:30 which was not bad considering how much we did that morning. Minachiko went off to help our friends with their costumes while I went to work. There weren't many other BlazBlue cosplayers, but I did play with all the ones that I did see~~ (and they were really nice about me being the biggest jerk that ever jerked <3). I was supposed to met up with gunblazeex at 11:30, but everyone was running a little late that morning, so we didn't meet up until 12. I think gunblazeex (dressed as Ragna) didn't appreciate my Hazama-mode -- when I met up with him, he made the grumpiest face ever hahah. We had to wait a little bit for some cosplayers to move out of the spot that we wanted, but we were able to secure a really beautiful location on the balcony, and the both of us started setting up our tea party as fast as we could.

We had a black place-holder thing to sit on. In the middle, a tiered centerpiece that we painstakingly placed Milanos and Madeleines on, along with fresh berries that we set up in a swirl pattern on top of the cookies arrangement. gunblazeex had misplaced the top tier, so he wrapped two black roses around the top of the center piece. We then set out red, white and black roses around the bottom of the centerpiece, and "randomly" placed single petals as well. The most hilarious/terrifying part was that because that day was a little hot and we were both in a couple layers, we were stripped halfway out of outfit as we set up, forcing each other to each broken cookies;;; It probably looked so homo hahaha. (Also, somewhere during this, someone came to the area with a boombox and played the Opera from Final Fantasy 6. And just listening to the music, looking at the beautiful tea party set-up was so beautiful, I wish it would have stayed like that for the entire tea party) Eventually, Minachiko called me to tell me that she really couldn't delay any longer and they were heading out to the balcony, so I scrambled to put myself back into costume haha as gunblazeex called the rest of CRH to let them know where to show up as well. Our friends showed up as I my head was down, fixing the last part of my costume XD.

Hooray~ gunblazeex and my hard work really paid off~ everyone was really surprised to see me, and surprised to see our tea party set up~. We had so many friends there, it was kind of crazy. gunblazeex (Ragna), Arieta (Ragna), einobaka (Jin), hystericraider (red alt. Jin), kitsunecagalli (Noel), rare_dreamer (pink alt. Noel), miko*muffin (Rachel), Minachiko (pink alt. Rachel), xmemoryless (Carl), ChibiTifa (purple alt. Litchi), Donovan (Hazama), Rex (white alt. Hazama), and we randomly attrached another Hazama, Brendan, who we invited along as well haha. We had a lot of fun, and Blankoo helped us take some really nice photos~ After a while though, everyone started getting hungry, so we decided to finish our food first before moving on to part two of the photoshoot. So we started pulling out all the food, and was really excited to start eating when we started hearing "We have to leave?" from all the people around us.

The fire alarm had just gone off in the convention center, and we all had to pick up all our of things and evacuate D:. With the amount of people and belongings we had, we literally had to pick up the first thing that we saw, and carry it regardless of who it was. It was especially frightening since we did have a 90 dollar china tea set that we brought for the party that we had to make sure was okay as well. With the help of Nago hovering over the 20k attendees, we were able to make it out back to the loading docks, where we were at least able to clean up and consolidate a little. Unfortunatenately, because of such, a bunch of members of our group decided to split and head back to their hotel rooms and whatnot. Along with Edguardo, an awesome Valkenhyn that we attrached, we headed into the nearest hotel, where we ate whatever we had of our food haha (including me trying to force all the Hetalia people to eat our food as well as we had too much). Eventually, hystericraider, xmemoryless, Edguardo and myself headed to the public BB shoot to hang out a little. And the people there were really nice! I hung out with the other Hazamas and we just trolled all the pictures with "LOL dunno" pose. It was actually quite beautiful. I headed back to work for about an hour and a half or so, before I became a mess and retired for the day.

I met back up with hystericraider and dumped a lot of things into my car. On the way back, there was a Bang heading into the masquerade who was really excited that I had them on me too XD I wish I could have connected to him because I named the Pokemon in the pokewalker after BB characters too;;;. We met back up with CRH and we ran around taking photos and just hung out for the rest of the evening.

Sunday: Minachiko had already left to go home. In the morning, I really had no plans on what to cosplay (originally I was thinking of Hazama again, but that costume was so gross from the day before...and then I thought about doing Chie or Keiichi) so I looked through my closet and decided on Akira from Togainu no Chi. I got to the convention and worked. hystericraider and xmemoryless randomly came over and worked with me sometimes too <3. Around noon, I took a break and helped CRH load their stuff into their cars and hung out with them for a bit before going back to work. After work, I was able to meet up with CRH and we all got some dinner at the pub down the street. Afterwards, I helped grab some photos of their Baccano! group in this really cool looking area right behind the CVS. We were joined by rare_dreamer and RedFireFly for a bit who helped with some photos, as well as another girl who just happened to be heading back to her hotel, who actually had a Millia costume. (So she ran back, got dressed and did some photos too, it was fun). I said my goodbyes to CRH, and met up with RedFireFly and rare_dreamer to help them get some shots of One Piece, which was a lot of fun. They were nice enough to help get some amazing photos of my Akira cos, and let me stay the night with them, and it was a lot of fun in general~. Thanks <3

Overall, a very busy but exciting weekend filled with friends~ I had so much fun doing BlazBlue <3

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