Wai. JTAF.

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHPJOOOOOOOOOOO

*waves arms*

Yeah, 'twas FUN. I mean, not “ZOMG liek magickull!!!1”, but still, it pwned. *-* It was a total marathon and yeah, but I'm actually not going to write a humongo post about every single thing that happened. Considering that we were all hyper, doing spur-of-the-moment-everything & the fact that I was sick and practically delirious, I can't remember the exact order of everything anyways. X3 So yeah, I'll just point out some general/important/funny things...

The original plan was to go just Saturday, have a sleepover then go home... but no, the insane ones of the group decided to go both days. *SQUEE* But from the beginning...

So like we met up at Marian's & I got there around ten, and when I went in her room most of the attendees were there, dressed up and *SOO* awesome-looking. Everyone had a new cos except me. ><' But anyhow, the people present in the room wereeee....

Marian>>Deidara, with a really pretty light blonde wig
Zoey>>Sasori, with a BEAUTIFUL wig that's this dark shade of scarlet and it's really nice....
Erin>>The Third/Yondaime, with a HUGE BRIGHT spiky wig... XD
Chloe>>Sir Leader (with paper bag) and ADORABLE Itachi (under the bag)
Timmy>>Rock Lee. He made the cos and it came out nicely so I'm proud of him. ^^
Michelle>>OMG, MICHELLE!
And um, me I guess. Hinata-chan. >.>'

Justine & Athena were late because Justine had a swim meet and Athena had Chinese school. So they arrived and we left around 12:30ish, and yeah. They both didn't dress up (*sniff*), but Justine had her panda hat & other cute/anime stuff, and Athena wore her headband for like two minutes & hat-thing for like another two minutes.

When we got there, we got to the opposite side of the building once again, just like last year. X3 Then we registered (*pre-register* technically but whatever) and stuff.

Near the registration place was the Artist Alley, where I proceeded to meet BART_Boy like ten minutes into the con. XD He wasn't in costume at the time, but he put on his RPD stuff later.

And stuff happened. And more stuff. Then stuff. And guess what? ['o']~ That's a pig.

...Sorry, Marian, Erica & I made that up in World Cultures. We were bored.

Anyways, we did... STUFF, then went outside and did more stuff, and I happened to cross BART_Boy, who actually took me to the really pretty water fountain sakura tree place-thing by the pagoda & I had my own photoshoot! Kind of. X3 It was really fun, he made me get in all these cool positions and was like fanboy-squeeing the entire time. XD

OMG. There were these people setting up these huge camera thingies, and they came up to us (Zoey, Marian, Chloe, me, Li-san (Sasuke), Rhiannon (Orochimaru) and some other random cosplayers), and they wanted us to stay around for a few minutes and tape us for Japanese TV!! OMG, it was SO fun. Once they finished setting up, they were telling us where to go and to act like we were talking and yeah. And then, while they were taping us, some people came over asking for our pictures and the camera followed and we were posing on TV, and then Zoey & Marian did all this SasoDei stuff that was cute, and Marian kissed Zoey on the cheek and it was adorable. Later on (yes, the tape was long since they cut scenes...), I kept on running into the camera guy and it was really embarrassing. @_@ Like I'd be walking, laalala, and I'd look forward and I'm like walking into the camera which happens to be taping me offguard. Aye... >.< And omg, he stepped forward a bit and I TRIPPED over him and he caught me on tape, getting tripped. Do you know how humiliating that is?!

Ah well, we were on Japanese TV. That's all that matters. X3

Zoey says there are probably a lot of girls watching TV and going “OMG, SasoDei!! *fangirl squee*” and I think she's right. This is Japan we're talking about...

Around 2:30 we (me & Zoey) decided to have a Naruto Gathering because there wasn't any other one going on I guess. So Erin & Marian took one building (the one with the hotel) and Justine & I took the other (main/Kinokuniya) building. What were we doing? Screaming, “NARUTO GATHERING, 2:45 AT THE FRONT OF THE PLAZA!! BE THERE.” Apparently a few Cosplay.Com people heard me, and mentioned it to me online today. >______>' It was REALLY embarrassing afterwards, but fun at the moment. I know, totally IC Hinata...

Speaking of which, I want Justine to cosplay Inner Hinata sometime, and I'll be outer Hinata. She has short hair anyways so it'd work. >3

Anyhow, it occurred to me at like 2:43 that we didn't have anyone to order the gathering (ie organize the shots, like Leaf, Akatsuki, Perv's etc), since we were *in* the pictures and couldn't really do anything except pose. So we found BART_Boy & convinced him to head the gathering (he did so at the Fanime one & was great)... but he was planning to go meet someone or something & would be twenty minutes late for the gathering. But then at 3, he still hadn't come, and our gathering turned out to be this total games fest which was amazingly fun. We had a huge jump-roping contest (I've got a pic :3), wheelbarrow contest which I judged, piggyback race (in which I won [carried] second both times) & other stuff. OMG YES, and we tied Timmy to a pole with the jump rope. OMG, it was great. Somehow someone was able to restrain and keep Timmy (aka Lee) by the pole and the others were pulling the rope around and around. I hopped in and helped too, and we got like betrayed by the outer pulling people, because we somehow got stuck and tied in, and we were this huge mass stuck to a POLE. o.O;

Fun.

Later, Marian described it as an... *whispers* an orgy. GAHH.... @_@ But she said I don't count because I'm like yeah.

Not fun.

We kind of settled down at one point and Zoey presented her awesome stuff- sketchbook (is teh PWN), Itchy-poo & Kisame-chan (the ultimate plushies that pwn too), Ranka (which does NOT, I repeat, NOT pwn) & other stuff. Orochimaru/Rhiannon-san gave out lolipop thingies as usual.... Halfway through, Zoey like half-glomp half-wrestled me so I was lying in her lap (which I didn't mind, because Zoey makes a nice lap...), and she was handed this like hash-brown thing (I couldn't see it), and she was eating it, and the crumbs kept on falling and getting all over me. Then I took my strawberry pop out of my mouth and tell Zoey about the crumbs, and she cheerily pats me on the head and shoves the hash brown thing in my mouth. I squeal and take a bite of strawberry-flavored hash brown, take it out and squeal again, and she repeats the procedure. Again. And again. AGAIN. ARGHH.

I totally heart Zoey.

She was talking about commissioning plushies for others, and Rhiannon-san requested Itachi & Kisame plushies. Zoey had a relatively low price (like $5 or $10 I think), but Rhiannon felt bad and stuff and paid her more. So Zoey got like $25 or something.

Rhiannon-san & I went to the Dealer's Room together to get the plushies for Zoey to morph, and during that time, Zoey, Marian, Timmy and the others got in a silly string fight. OMG, and there was a really great photographer (he's on Cosplay.Com & has his own site) who was taking pictures and yeah. Great stuff. ^^

What else happened....

Um, moving forward like three hours. Athena and I drifted off by ourselves and we talked a lot, and we also got our pictures taken again. I'll post them up soon, once I get the uploading photos stuff done, and I'm free.

Then Zoey & Marian took SasoDei photos, and OMG, they're really cute. Kind of. Not really. No, they were, in a twisted way. 0_0; Ehurrr.....

Then I took MORE with Armando (Itachi that we met and hung out with, REALLY nice guy), Erin & Timmy. They came out really great, and yeah.

All three sets of pictures were very nicely decorated, and I love them very much. X3 Like I said, I'll be posting them once I get everything else out of the way.

We went out to eat dinner (or maybe it was before the pic-taking... hmm, iono) at a ramen place (Itachi/Armando came, it was awesome), and yeah. I ate like one centimeter of my miso ramen bowl and I was full. @_@ So I gave mine to Zoey & Timmy... but yeah. It was really fun.

We also went to the (Japanese) supermarket afterwards and were walking through the aisles, and everyone was staring. >_>' But you seriously can't blame them, we're these total weirdo's in costume shrieking at the top of our lungs and being weird. Zoey & I happened to cross Li in the meat area and we're like “Ooh, raw meet... 0_0” Haha, we're such retards.

And OMG, and then apparently Zoey saw Rhiannon too (I had run away with Athena), and mid-convo she asked how you pronounced Rhiannon and she said “Rhi-ah-nin”, and it's Welsh, so Zoey's like “It's... SWELSH!!” (or something), then staggers off giggling drunkenly and turns the corner.

Um, yeah. Like I said, I totally heart Zoey. We were giggling like maniacs at like four in the morning because she kept on going “It'sss... SWELSH!!” *dies*

And more stuff happened. ['o']~ RETURN OF THE PIGGY!!!

There was also this vending machine that sold this REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY good strawberry drink (Justine calls it “s***”; Zoey calls it “orgasm drink”), and omg, it's soooooooo addicting. *drools*

So after a looong time, we drove back home (as in Marian's, since this is a sleepover). On the car ride back there we passed this street with all these gorgeous lights (*cough* the police, actually...). But I'm serious, it was so beautiful. I'll post pics on my deviantart and how you all, it's really really purdy. Anyhow, when we got back, we basically just hung out... Since we were all high and drunk on air, we (more like me, Chloe, Marian & Zoey; Justine & Athena were watching Youtube I think) had this awesome conversation and stuff, and yeah. I was trying to be scary by wearing Marian's coat and going “RAWRS”, but nothing happened. ;_; They just laughed and hugged me. T^T I wanna be scary...

And then we had this total epiphany because the photos are actually STICKERS, liek ZOMGZ.

As you can tell, I'm still high. *bounce bounce bounce splat boing...*

Eventually we went to the other room (like the living room except it's not a living room, nor is it a sitting room...) and settled down to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas. I was freaked out when I found out we were going to watch it because I always though titw as a SUPER scary movie after seeing like two seconds of Corpse Bride... but TNBC is really good. ^^

Timmy had to go home afterwards because he couldn't stay. *sniff* It was around midnight by now.

Then we went upstairs, finished watching the most recent episodes of that YGO spoof (they totally win), and went back downstairs to open presents. <3 That was fun...

Then we did more stuff, And supposedly settled down to sleep. Athena, Justine & Chloe slept in another room, and the people sleeping in the 'other' room were Marian, Michelle, Erin, Zoey & me. We got settled down and yeah. I started referring back to locking my legs as horse legs (long story), and like two minutes later the topic was somehow sex. XDD And then we talked about other stuff, and yeah.

*pause* Wow. I'm not even going through all the details and I've written so much. 0_0;

Everything that happened from 1:00 – 5:00 AM is kind of all mixed for me. I don't really know what order the events took place, but yeahh... I was fully aware and still remember the conversation, but still, I'm like yeah. Sometime in the middle of the night we decided to watch some ALADDIN sequel (Return of Jafar I think) but it sucked so much it was depressing so we watched like the normal Aladdin ten minutes later, got bored again in ten minutes and stopped watching altogether. XD

Btw, the reason we stayed up so late is (1) we always do and we wanted to break our record (which we did), (2) I wanted to see the sun rise.... inspired by Justina (3) FACE. Yes Hisaki, FACE.

We were talking about stuff, and being weird. 0_0 *coughs* And Zoey kept on saying “Thaaat's SWELSH!!” to everything, and I couldn't stop laughing like a total idiot. XDD

Oh, and at like four o'clock (I actually dunno when, since like I said, we had no sense of time) we had ice cream (precisely drumsticks), and yeah.

We also decided to go to JTAF again on Sunday (thus attending all days :3) because Timmy was going anyways (with Mariah) and had invited us to come along.

Then more stuff happened.

I just remembered. Unf unf. KYAAAA... *locks self in closet*

So yeah. We stayed up to five, and then we were too loud and stuff and went to sleep.

Kind of. 'Sleep' is three hours. Or technically, more like two and a half... yeah, we woke up at eight. >.<

Then we read manga, and I had a biscuit and cantaloupe for breakfast. :D

And then we went to JTAF. Again.

0_0;

The people attending Day 2 (in our group) were um... me, Zoey, Marian, Timmy & Mariah. Zoey & Timmy were the same as Saturday, and Marian & I decided to wear our pajama pants. The only person that pointed out I was PJ Hinata was Eurobeat King-san... but that's like the best person to recognize it, since he's so legendary. ^^;

Anyhow, I had to actually be careful about not getting myself dirty because I sleep in those pants. Whereas the day before I was really stupid and awesome... I splashed in the water and got dirty when BART_Boy and I went to take pictures. And hour later, I went and jumped again, and got all soaked, again. And then about three hours later, I do it again, wail, come out, and jump back in two seconds later. XD

You know, I'm really proud of you to read this far. That is, assuming that you're not reading these words because your eyes happened to catch them while skimming this post.

We actually didn't register Sunday (our passes were just for Saturday), but it didn't matter, because we didn't want to go to any screenings, and the Dealer's Room was closed anyways. We basically just hung out.

I actually made a pretty in-character Hinata (PJ-wise), because I was so tired. I was sleeping half the time... and yeah.

We had another silly string fight at one point, and I joined in. Naruto-kun kept spraying me, and I didn't do anything. >.< And it was like an eight-year old Naruto-kun at that. He was cute. X3

Then Zoey and I decided to go to the supermarket. I don't remember why. But eveyrone was STARING at us, because she hadn't wiped off any of the silly string and it was hanging off every inch of her body... I'm serious, she's way more covered and brightly-assorted then you're imagining right now. Check my gallery for pics, I have a bunch. XD

Okay, people stare at us anyways because we're in costume. But now it was like... openly rude staring, pointing, etc. I may be an OOC Hinata, but I was still really embarrassed and stuff. >.< It was still super fun though. Oh yeah, and we got a huge bottle of that strawberry drink. :3

I think Zoey & Marian also went to the supermarket earlier, because they got sea-salt popsicles (get it? Kingdom Hearts? Or something like that... iono) which tasted weird. So yeah. Hum dee doo.

We mostly just hung out at the pagoda & inside with Li, Rhiannon, IrukaSensei22 and a LOT of other people. It was kind of sad because we were at least two years younger then everyone else, and yeah. But they were nice to us and stuff, so yays.

Li & Rhiannon invited us out to dinner and we ate at this little place in the Miyako hotel shopping place where the con was. It was really fun, and just eating with them was a highlight of my day. :3

Then more stuff happened, we went to (another) supermarket and got stuff, and yeah. Eventually we went home around sevenish. We saw a man wearing a dress... but hey, this is San Francisco.

Um, yeah. We hung out at Marian's a bit more, and that was my JTAF con experience. :3 *closes book*

Dang. I wrote a lot. 0_0; I really did try to tone it down.... I'm sorry!! ;_;

Concerning next con-- that's going to be Sac Anime, in January. ^^ We might go to other events in between but we'll see. I was going to do time-jump Hinata, but then I wanted to crossplay (since everyone now has except me) and my friends want me to do Sasuke. Which would be awesome, because Justine says I should just borrow hers. :D I actually want to do SnJ Sasuke (like with a skirt and pigtails or something), but that wouldn't be crossplay, would it? Eh, I don't have to crossplay anytime soon. Any idea's fine. -^^-

But umm.... yeah, that's it for now. If you read that all, I'm really proud of you. *hugs* So until next time, ja!

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