well, i've been home a couple hours now, and already, im bored with torrance. though truely, i must say that i prefer torrance over anaheim...
as some of you know, during these past 5 days, i have been out of town, in anaheim, attending the 2006 AnimeExpo at the Anaheim Convention Center (acc). now i'm back, and i feel like talking about the trip :D i havent been on vacation in a while, and oh man.. i had SO MUCH FUN.
ok... before i start this little happy thing about my trip, i wanna thank chris for taking me, and for everything he has done for me. i really cannot thank him enough for everything... and i know he's tired of hearing me thank him over and over, but really... i have so much to be thankful for, and i really cannot thank him enough. thank you chris... for everything.
ok.. so we left mid-afternoon on friday, so to avoid the rush on the day of AX. unfortunately, there was a sig-alert on the 405 to the 22, so we ended up taking Sepulveda all the way up to anaheim.
when we got there, we went straight to the acc to pick up our badges; can you believe that parking at the acc is $9?! it was insane. well, we got out of the car, and OMFG IT WAS SO HOT. we got out of the car, and the heat just...sat on us. so we quickly headed over inside the acc, which was pumped with AC. XD good thing we got there a day early too, because the line wasnt that long at all. the registration hall was OMG HUGE. it was cool :D so we stood in line for about 3 minutes, and picked up our badges. we got a plastic bag that had little goodies inside. well they're nothing big; just some schedules and ads, and then a small set of naruto pins.
after picking up the badges, we went over to the hotel to check in, and drop off all our crap. the hotel was very small, and kind of hidden from the main street. right next to the freeway though... ._. the pictures online showed much bigger rooms. we werent too happy when we walked into the small room, but at least the furnishings and the cleanliness matched. what was really gross was that the ac was on warm, so our first step into the room was hit with hot and humid air. we sat around and settled in, and then dinner time came around, so we walked over to Mimi's Cafe that was just down the street
that night, we slept fairly early to make sure we had enough energy for the first say of convention.
the next day, we met up with chris' friend matt. ive never met him before, and he seemed like a very quiet kind of guy, but he became more and more comfy as the day went along, and it turns out he is a really really cool person. we hung around the arcade, and waited til the dealer hall opened.
unfortunately, that day, the dealer hall wasnt going to open til noon, so we had about 2 hours to kill. about 1/2 hour before noon, we went downstairs to check the line into the dealer. and OMGGGG the line was soooooooooo long. ok.. so the dealers hall is in section B, which is kind of on one side of the acc. ok.. so the line starts at the doors of the hall, went down the corridor thing, out the door, against the wall, down the walk way, goes out to the front, in front of the dome against the wall, and then zig zaged around in the area in front of the dome. basically, the line is about an hours wait. so chris, matt and i decided to go get food til the doors open. we walked over to carl's jr for lunch. by the time we came back, the line was completely gone, so we just walked into the Dealer's Hall. there was SOOO much stuff in there.
i met up with boeun and brendel and chilled with them for a bit. they helped me find the ear cuffs that i wanted, but after that, i went back to chris and matt and hung out with them. then, chris and matt's other friend, jason, called, and we went to the registration hall to meet up with him. unfortunately, since jason was getting his badge that day, he was going to be in that line for a long time. so the 4 of us chilled for a couple minutes in the line, and then chris, matt and i left cause we didnt want to stand in that line the whole time. chris told jason to just call him when he finally got his badge. so, the 3 of us went back to the dealer hall to shop around.
then, jason met up with us, and then we all went over to the console game room, and jason started playing capcom vs....something. i dont remember what the other one was. but he was in there for a while. then, finally when he was done, we went over to the arcade room, which jason ended playing capcom...again. XD
that night, we went to iHop for dinner. :3
that night, jason stayed with us in our hotel room.
next day... crap.. i dont even remember exactly happened the other days. i'll probably remember later, because right now, im really sleepy and really really tired.
main things: i bought more than i expected i would, food is hella expensive, dinner at tony rama's was the most fun i've had during dinner in a while, deals hall is fun to walk around, i bought a Yaoi paddle, 2 shirts, and a butt load of hats/cranim accessories, and pins. oh yeah... and...
ANHEIM IS HOT AS HELL.
we left disneyland 3hours into the park. it was THAT hot. both chris and i got sunburnt from that trip.
i'll finish this tonight maybe.
ok... continue...
okay.. so now im actually wide awake. the redbull finally kicked in
ohhh man..at disneyland, that...was interesting. when chrisn line, and i were in line for Haunted Mansion...OMFGGGG we're in there for 30min, which was already 5 min over what the people put up as the Wait Time. suddenly, were sitting there for like, ten min waiting, and tahnkfully we were in the shade, and then a cast member comes out, and says "the ride has temporarily broken down. you can either stay in the line, or youre free to leave the line, cause we dont know how long this is gong to take" so we left. as we were leaving, we saw steve and ashley. that was...definitely interesting. :P
we went on space mountain, mattahorn, and big thunder. ....that's it. oh.. and astro blasters. i kicked his ass XD other than that, it was WAY too hot to stay there, so we went back to AX, and planned to go back after the Karas thingy. but then i decided that i was too tired, so i went back to the hotel, and chris went with jason to watch karas. but then somethin screwed up, and karas was cancelled. so we hung out at our room and watched TV.
guess what we were watching...
PLASTIC SURGERY DISASTERS
...we watched most of that show right before dinner. but it was cool.. we got over it, and then in the walk over to the rainforest cafe, we became really hungry :D we sat outside in the rainforest cafe. it was either wait half an hour for an indoor seat, or have the outside seat immediately. so i said that we'll just take the outdoor one, since the temperature was starting to drop anyway. turns out, that was a really great decision, cause the breeze kicked up, and the inside was warm and a lil stuffy too.
oh yeah... as i had said, one night, chris, jason, matt and i ate at tony Rama's, and after dinner, we were waking back to the AX to pick up the car, and omggggg this stupid truck... *sigh* people are really stupid. theres this ... median on the street, and its abou...2 feet high. it slopes up, and then plateaus, and then slopes back down. this truck .... iono... i guess the person thought that since he's in a truck, he can just drive right over it. BAD MISTAKE. that stupid idiot got his truck stuck on the median. we didnt see exactly what happened, but that's what it looked like had happened. eventually, the police came, and then the tow truck came, and they stood around for a while trying to figure out how to get the truck out. so then Harbor became SOOO busy. lousy idiot.
what sucks is that jason had to go home to go get his clothes and stuff, and then his car got a flat tire. so he never was able to come back to AX. so the 2nd half of AX, it was mainly just me, chris and matt. but it was still a lot of fun. XD
but i do feel bad for jason.. pays for 4 days of AX, and he could only attend 2. and even before that, he had lost his badge 5minutes after waiting in line for an hour to get the damn thing.
apparently im now dubbed TofuBean because of my TofuBean hat.
~~theres a Tofu Records stand, and they were selling Tofu plushies~~
jason: ...wow.. what a way to make profit: 'lets think of something relaly random, make them into pushies,a nd sell them!' ...who the hell would want to buy a tof u plushie?
random dude: *says to person incharge* 'scuse me... can i get a tofu plushie?
jason: ....shit.
*takes out Yaoi paddle* "im going to use this on small world"
"uh...you DO realize that the boat is run on trac--"
"I'M GOING TO USE THE PADDLE."
"TOFU BEAN!!"
"i am not a tofu bean! *points at a little girl waking past with a tofu bean hat on too* look! she's a tofu bean! she's round like one!!"
"...ANNA!! that's MEAN!"
"come'ere tofu bean!"
"so i look like a round little thing without arms and legs??? and beans dont have leaves!! *points to leaves on the hat* "
"fine..youre a tofu SPROUT. :) "
*steals all the straws*
*puts mouth on the straws*
".....OKAY... WHO CHEWED ON THEIR STRAW?!"
"hey... where we going?"
"jason needs to go get his badge, so we're gonna see how long it takes"
"..didnt he get one this morning?"
"yea...but he lost it 5 minutes after he got it."
"come'on chris!! skip with us!"
"its so much more fun when you have no shame"
"my gramma saw the bump once and asks me: 'what you got? cancer?' "
*after finishing watching a documentary on plastic surgery*
"...so.... who's hungry!"
"hey brendel.... just run.. they're not looking... XD"
"..did you steal that rock?!"
"nope. it jumped into my pocket on its own."
good times good times.
i wish i could relive it all, and change some of the stuff
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