It might be wise to mention my con experience during Anime Punch... since, you know, I really don't get the chance to go to any.

From what I remember a week ago, we fitted right in by helping an artist get some boxes out of her car to her stand. I believe I bought some art from her at YoumaCon, but you can never be sure.

Anyway, , , and I seeked out our boss Steve in the Dealer's room... meaning we had to get right to work. XP It wasn't too bad though, I got to meet a few awesome cosplayers. I saw someone as Spike from Cowboy Bebop and he was wonderfully in-character! O_O

Me: Heeeey Spike, come buy! <3
Spike: You know I have no money.
Me: You must have some from bounty hunting!
Spike: Well, maybe just for you...

Squee~! <3

After we closed up the dealer's room, Steve was nice enough to take all of his coworkers out to dinner... in his creepy, white van. It was especially funny since he and Matt sat in front, all safe and buckled in, while all the girls had to be stowed away in the back on the cold, hard floor. No seat belts and we were on the freeway! @_@ We made it out alive though. :3

We then wandered some neat town until we found a Japanese restaurant. We had a long wait, but we entertained ourselves through speaking random Japanese and German. The food was totally worth it too. X9

Once we returned to the hotel, and I decided it was time to cosplay for part of the night. I almost ruined it though, because I began to feel ill (I believe I ate too much). However, I lied down, took a 10 minute nap, and felt okay again. , already dressed as Kyoya from Host Club, waited for me (with what I believed to be patience) as I dressed up as... Walter-san from Hellsing! <3

Because the rest of the night really wasn't that interesting (except some people took our pictures and a Black Jack asked us about Wendy's @_@), I'll skip it.

Next day, we had to wake up at about 9, because we had work to do. XP Again, and I dressed up as our characters, except decided to join us and dress up as Schrödinger! <3

We go down stairs and get to work, selling comics, DVDS, and such. The best part about this job is getting to talk to the customers, since pretty much all of them are nice! ^^ I had one keep his word when he promised to come back to buy Bleach, Integra come by telling me how she was enjoying herself exceedingly (<33) and threaten Schrödinger (<3333333), and acquainted myself with Koenma from YuYuHakusho. I met many others, but my memory lacks, so I apologize to those who read this and find that I didn't mention them. I love you equally the same. <3

I also had one weird instance where someone wanted my picture (which I humbly granted) and then they asked if I was Alucard. oO; I politely told them I was Walter C. Dornez, the butler, but I don't think they remembered me.

Then our break came, which in the end, would lead us to a little chaos. We started out shopping in the Dealer's room- and I buying not only for ourselves, but also our friend in Florida-and would sometimes wander from each other. Eventually, wasn't anywhere to be found. My sister and I began frantically looking for her, from the dealer's room, main hall, to our room, but she was gone.

also began pointing out that people were gathering for the cosplay and skit contest, but I was positive that wouldn't go in there without us. So, we continued looking, eventually borrowing Steve's cell to call her (she was in possession of ours at the time from our lack of pockets), but she wouldn't pick up. I left her a death message on her phone and hung up, peeved off to no end. Our boss Steve tried cheering me up, but it didn't work. I think I kind of yelled at him, which I feel bad about now, but he didn't seem to think anything of it.

We looked around some more, but eventually got stopped by some fans who wanted pictures. We did so, feeling that enjoying our cosplay was more important than . While got her picture taken and talked to some Kyoya fangirls, a Walter fanboy came up and warned me he was going to glomp me.

He wasn’t kidding. xD

I graciously accepted my fate until he was ready to run along. After that, while my sister and I sat down to think about where could be, another fanboy came up wanting a hug. By all means, how could I reject? I was highly amused about how I didn’t win fanboys for my looks (as a girl), but just because I was f*ckin’ Walter C. Dornez.

That really made my day.

Anyway, I eventually told my sister to forget and for us to sneak into the main event. They wouldn't let us in through the front, so we snuck in through the back. I was trying to enjoy myself during the first few skits when, suddenly, an Inspector Gadget ring tone went off.

That was 's phone.

Sure enough, got up from her seat (some rows ahead of us) and embarrassedly walked out. I laughed to myself, wondering if my parents called, what she would say. I was also feeling bitter, so I didn't leave to go find her.

It didn't last long, because I eventually convinced myself to grow up and to go meet up with her. So, I let stay and enjoy the show while I went out. I looked around for her, but didn't see her anywhere, so I decided to go back to the room and dig out another cell phone to call her.

I finally reached her and instead of blowing up over the receiver, I calmly asked where she was. She apparently was seeking us out at some panel (God knows why) and told me to stand by until she got to the room. I did.

When she arrived, I asked her what had happened, another way of saying, "WHY THE F*CK DID YOU RUN AWAY?!" Apparently, she had been seeking and I the whole time. The dealer's room must've been a maze for us, because she was in the dealer's room for as long as us and finally decided to just go to the cosplay contest.

Instead of arguing over something so stupid, I laughed it off and told her I went psycho from looking for her, even leaving a death message on her cell phone. She tried accessing her voice mail to hear it, but her phone had been dead the whole time. Ah well.

With that over with, we went back to the cosplay/skit event and watched from the doorway in the back, sitting in the back row anyway. Once she was content, she came out and we all went wandering the convention. Got lots of pictures, met cool artists, and got to run around. X3

Woodalali have I written a lot and I’m still not finished. >>;

Somehow, we eventually got split up, knowing that we could just meet at the upcoming panel. I was walking out of the room and headed for the elevators, which would make me wait for 5 minutes before it would arrive. However, I got to meet a peculiar fellow. He was older with a cool white/gray beard, wearing (from what I remember) a neat tropical patterned shirt. He started to talk to me, mentioning how one of the elevators was out of order. I made a sarcastic remark about how convenient it was with a hotel completely booked with convention goers. He chuckled, making another funny comment which is a blur to me now. Just before the elevator doors opened, I took a good look at him, realizing that I was actually talking to Triston MacAvery.

Woah.

The elevator doors opened, revealing a crowd of people in there. I could fit just fine, but Mr. MacAvery commented that he wasn’t quite small enough to squeeze in. We all gave an ‘aww’ and allowed the doors to close.

I reached the main floor and began rushing to get to the panel, when suddenly, a young Walter and Girlycard stopped me. I swear, I quote myself…

“My… the good old days…”

I had heard about them earlier from a customer, who claimed he had seen a white Russian princess. xD I was happy to see them, but, of course, I didn’t have a camera. Instead, their group took a picture of all of us and told me they could e-mail it to me. I’m still waiting for it. >>;

Anyway, it was a little after 9 pm when we finally met up at the dirty fanfic panel, which turned out loads of fun. <3 The panel itself was amusing, but the best part was because the show ran short and the panel speaker decided to just have a slide show of all her dirty, disturbing porn. xDD

I’ll tell you this, I can never see my childhood the same way again.

The next panel was about yaoi and we tried staying seated in, but the lady wouldn’t accept Steve’s consent for or believe forgot her ID (which she did, since she is 19), and caught that I wasn’t quite 18 yet (“Just 2 months!”). So, we got kicked out.

We were sad, but decided that, to make it up, we’d bring ’s laptop down and watch Host Club in a hall, allowing anyone to watch it with us.

It was enjoyable for a while, until some punks thought it was okay to nearly step all over her laptop. oO; yelled at them to consider that they were dealing with an expensive piece of equipment and they eventually began to march farther away.

We got into about another episode when an old man stopped by and asked about ’s costume. Apparently, he was the father of a girl who cosplayed Witch Hunter Robin and won an award for her skit (whom I got to sit next to while was talking to some fangirls and was getting people to sign Kyoya’s stolen folder <3). He mentioned that she had wanted to dress from the same series and started asking for details on my sister’s costume, which was rather difficult for her to explain since he didn’t know half of what she was talking about. xD

After that ordeal, we got through about 6-7 episodes of Host Club when I decided that as an old man, I needed my rest. I received some good nights and went to the room and plopped to bed.

Nothing too exciting happened on Sunday, except for the fact that I bought a figurine of Auron for only $15 (his shades were broken) and got a free Tidus figure. xD Oh, I also was dressed in my incomplete Dark Walter costume and a good number of people still recognized me. :3

Because we had worked for Steve full time, we also got to spend all of our store credit! I ended up getting the first 4 issues of Hellsing (I only had them in Japanese) and volumes 2-10 of Death Note (I sold the last copy of the first volume on accident). got a lot more variety with Angel Sanctuary, Host Club, xxxHolic, and Descendants of Darkness. … I don’t remember what she bought. >>;

One thing that sticks out after the convention, also, was when we stopped at Taco Bell for lunch. was still in her Kyoya attire and received a few glances. I was still Dark Walter but I just looked like I was dressed up. xD

Wow, I bet I missed a few things too, but seriously, I’m done. Comment on what I missed if you were there. @_@