Lady Rarity Pony

I didn't intend to write about my Bronycon experience because I'm (1) extremely lazy, (2) self-conscious about sounding cheesy, and (3) not confident in my writing skills. I've changed my mind, since it would be really dumb to have an amazing time with friends and not share a bit of it with anyone. Where to begin... First, I must say that the convention was well timed in my life. I really needed a break from the usual cycle I experience day-after-day. The day I left for the convention I was in a particularly sour mood. Imagine not caring if you died on the train-ride there. Yeah...it was that bad. The ride there was pretty frustrating, since I felt sick and the train car smelt like old cheese. Amtrak wifi doesn't work for crap, either. After leaving Amtrak, my dad and I waited for the little tram/wannabe-train that they had there. There we met a certain Rob from the U.K., who is the creator of the Mine Little Pony mod for Minecraft, apparently. An interesting fellow, but I let my dad do all the talking. Eventually we made it to the hotel. I left my dad at the end of the massive registration line while I went to call people and see where they were. No one answered except Chigens and Zoop. Chigens was still on her way. I have no idea what Zoop's whereabouts were because all I got from him was some random sounds and the occasional "who the hell are you?". He hung up after I started making some weird sounds in return. Meanwhile I was still in a bad mood. This wasn't exactly helping. Eventually Marco finally answered his freaking phone! That, or he called me back. I can't recall. Then came the first time during the trip that someone tried to give me directions and I had no idea where they wanted me to go. "Go along the side of the convention center" doesn't help very much when the convention center has four sides and entrances all over it. Marco's fun to screw with (in an entirely non-sexual way, of course), so of course when he came into sight I asked him if he could see some banner hanging over the street, and to use that as a landmark to direct me where to go. Maybe asking him to just stare at it wasn't the best of plans. He turned around and realized I was coming up behind him. Together we met the first group I joined at a fountain near the harbor. Apple Bloom, Skullbuster, Feld0, Marco, and some others were there. We messed around a bit before Marco and I took off for the registration room. As a general note, I tend to follow Marco around, and call his phone whenever I need help with something (during convention time). I don't know, he's just fun to do that with. So anyway, Marco and I went to the hotel on the 2nd floor (where they had the registration room/lines). We looked around for Zoop for quite some time. I wasn't sure exactly what Zoop would look/dress like, so we had some difficulties. There was, though, this bald guy on the registration line in a white shirt and glasses who I had a really strong feeling was Zoop. I'm one of those people who would rather postulate that someone just happens to look exactly like someone I know, rather than risk approaching them and it turning out not to be them. I did catch some of this on camera, where I literally film Zoop and jokingly suggest to Marco that it is Zoop. Marco and I went around for an unnecessary amount of time before finally leaving the registration room. And there was that bald guy again sitting on one of the couch-things they have out there. It was just too perfect to not be Zoop. So I got the idea just to call Zoop's phone number and see if the bald guy I've been staring at reaches for his cell phone to answer a call. And...turns out it was Zoop! Zoop, Luminescence, and...Skygunner I think was also there. There were some really long stares from Zoop and some random intense laughter from Lumi and Zoop in response to Marco's question "How was your trip?". Zoop explained in his post in this thread why that was. Later, Chigens finally arrived! My gosh, Chigens has a slender body. @_@ Chigens was my convention-buddy (I think that's an understatement ) so we were together more than not. [i was going to continue going over stuff according to day, but I can't remember the exact chronological order of stuff, and other stuff I recorded.] So, anyway, its was tons of fun. There were lots of hugs. Lots of shenanigans. Lots of laughs. There were many groups hugs. Chigens got the most hugs from me. Fox, who I met at the event (who's an awesome Canadian ) got the second most. I think I'm really off-track now. I'll make another post if I try to go into more detail on what we did during the event. Here's some more random footage. I'm sure there's some funny material in it but I think it's more unedited than the previous videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjlYVDcCD44&feature=youtu.be