They'll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate

ACen was super awesome this year! It was a definite improvement over the ball of stress that was this year's Ohayocon. The ACen plans worked out great and the whole thing was just a lot of fun.

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I can update now that my AP test is finally over.

This past weekend was the best! I had so very much fun at Acen! I'm going to type a big long entry now, so feel free just to skim over it.

Meghan and I left right after school on Friday. The car ride up to the con, which normally would have taken us around an hour, took us about 2 1/2- 3 hours because of traffic. Luckily we had plently of j-rock and anime music to keep us entertained while we were stuck in said traffic. When we finally got there it took a while to get our hotel room. After throwing our stuff down in the room, we made our way over to the convention center. We decided not to spend time in the dealer's room/artist's alley that night because it was nearly time for it to close when we got there. Instead we went over to the Hyatt, where the other half of the con was being held. We explored to see what was going on over there and decided to go to the shounen-ai panel. All about "pure love". We enjoyed that very much, so we decided to stay for the next panel (held by the same group) which was the 18+ yaoi panel. It was such an amusing time! I have two words reguarding that panel. Invisi-penis. After the panel Meghan and I decided to head back to our hotel room so we could get and early start the next day.

Saturday was the first day we cosplayed. I loved wearing my costume! I love Ed so much. We spent the majority of the morning shopping in the dealer's room. I bought quite a few things. Then we took our stuff back to the room so we could head over to the concert. The concert was two bands, Spiral Spiders and High and Mighty Color. I thought both of the bands were really good. Meghan and I were on the floor for the concert,  jumping and dancing. I was so hot and my feet were killing me from my boots, but I was having too much fun to care. We were too warm after the concert, so we changed out of our costumes before going to the masquerade. My favorite part of the masquerade was the skits. The two skits I loved were Asuma's Training Techniques (a Naruto skit) and Mom in a Box (an Advent Children skit, a parody of Dick in a Box). Meghan and I took another break for dinner. At the hotel I was surprised to find Ariel! It turned out that she happened to be staying at the same hotel and the same floor as us. We hung out with her for a while before Meghan and I went to the Soap Bubble. The Soap Bubble is the annual dance at Acen. It goes on all night. Meghan and I spent the majority of the night there. We ran into some people we knew from school (Deanna and Kevin) and danced with them all night. The music was mostly techno and other styles of music similar to it. And there were glowsticks. By the end of the night I was very sore and tired, but I was happy, so it was alright.

Sunday morning we slept in a bit later. We cosplayed again on Sunday. I had people coming up and asking me for pictures on both days that I cosplayed. It made me happy when one girl told me I was one of the best Eds she'd seen all weekend. That morning Meghan and I finished up the rest of our shopping. We even spent some time shopping with Deanna and Kevin. There weren't as many events on Sunday so we just walked around and relaxed. We left in the middle of the afternoon. Before we hit the road, we grabbed some McDonald's. It amused me that at least half of the people in McDonald's were also in cosplay.

And that was my weekend. I loved my first con! I can't wait to go back next year! Meghan and I have already decided that we will be going back.