The Dragon's Cave - Fur Con 08!!

WOA! What can I say about my first con? I am sad that it's already done and over with. I had such a fantastic time that I don't think I can post everything in one entry. So, I'll post a day at a time.

On thursday morning, I picked up my ride shares, Sheryl and Justin. Sheryl was VERY kind and drew not one, but two con badges for me! I don't have them scanned yet, but she did a great job on both of them. I'll scan them and post them in a later entry.

We tried to head up I-5, but we were stopped dead at grapevine pass: it was completely snowed out. So, we backtracked and took the 126 over to the 101, and headed up to San Jose that way. A much prettier drive along the beach, and we only lost about an hour of travel time.

We got to the con itself around 4:30 PM, and I checked into the FairField inn (which is about a block away from the con over at the Double Tree). I put on my tail and walked over to the con.

I quickly realized how valuable it is to pre-register for the con! I went through the registration line in about 5 minutes, while the line of folks who hadn't pre-registered had about a 2.5 hour waiting time. Woa.


I saw someone dressed in a GREAT Willy Wonka suit, so I snapped a pic of him as well. You can see the line of those who didn't pre-register stretched out behind him.



Once I was registered, I ran into Desert_Wolf, my hotel roommate. We spent most of the con together--he is a great guy to hang out with. He's the one on the right in the picture here:


That evening, I met plenty of fursuiters, but there was one in particular that I recognized from FurAffinity. It was a really good suit, so I got a picture of the two of us together:


That evening, I met up with my other two roommates, Airstrip and Rabbit. Unfortunately, Rabbit had a couple of friends that had roommates drop out, and he wanted to help them out so they didn't lose money on their rooms. I told him that I felt he should keep his previous commitments, but that the decision was his. Fortunately, I was able to do a quick post on the FurCon forums and got Jupiter to come and take up the last roommate slot the following night (so I was only out about $20).

At the initial 'Welcome to FurCon' meet and greet, I met quite a few furs, such as RaveHusky and BushyCat, and I was again impressed by how friendly the furry community is. Later, Desert_Wolf and I went back to the hotel room and scanned the con program to decide what we wanted to do during our stay.

I'll post about Friday later.