UGH such a long entry-- sorry for the photo dump and words.

Ahh, where do I even begin...

These past couple of weeks have been so packed and I really don't want to forget, so let's go back. After visiting Eddie during the weekend of Father's day, him and Iris came down on Tuesday with Jimmy. Iris and Eddie stay at my house till Friday... then we all leave back to Salinas for the weekend. On Sunday night we leave... again, for Los Angeles. Whoo, Jimmy has some crazy driving skills.

Starting from Monday we basically start all of our costumes... Hahaha. Since no one really had a place to work, we all collectively worked in my backyard in a studio that my family and Eddie recently remodeled. It's the first time we all worked together. And it was surprisingly really nice. I normally prefer working by myself where I can just speed sew... But this was really fun. Whenever we were tired of working on our costumes, we'd just work on someone else's costumes. And when we were sick of sewing, there was always some sort of podging that need to be done, and when we were sick of it all, we'd just eat.  However, it didn't really feel like AX was coming, so we always really took the opportunity to go out for coffee, or dance, or eat... and eat some more, and eat again. I swear! I think we were eating 90% of this whole adventure!



We planned on going Thursday, but instead our goal was to finish our costumes... D.O.A was the priority-- but it switched to Odin Sphere. And I really hadn't started on any of my armor or wings or anything-- so laaazzzzyyy. OH GEEZ, that night we pulled an all nighter. Jimmy finished some of his armor for Oswald and I worked on the patterns for Gwendolyns armor and Ingway's poncho thing... {Un}fortunately, we spent most of our time laughing or wanting to get coffee, or listening to Iris' accent specialties.



Friday morning, we crashed. at around 8 we pulled out a futon and slept in my back yard for like 15minutes. We get back up and begin zombie cosplay... where we decide it'd be best to just where what we got and go to AX. Since most of us finished DOA, we wore those, and Jimmy wore Dustin's Taro from Disgaea.









We get to the con and we run into Taroboy cosplay and Angela, Louis, Jennifer, and Priscilla! Then we walk/sit for about an hour or two, until we magnanimously decide that we were terribly hungry. I don't remember what we ate... but we headed to my house and gathered all our cosplay materials and headed over to Dustin's house to spend the night there. We loafed around and tried on all of Dustin's neat collections of cosplay... then we suggested to work on cosplay, then we all fell into a deep sleep curse because none of us remember how we fell asleep.

We woke up at 8, and vowed to be ready by 12. Then vowed to be ready by 4:30, then vowed to be ready by 7... but we failed.






We didn't realize that we had so much to do... but we finished by 9! And got out of the house, despite our low enthusiasm... Eric called and we went to meet him at the Yardhouse. There we ran into Minh Soi, Mike Cabusi, Shiroin, Ken, Angela and Louis, Taroboy Co., Aku and Haku, Chloe and Scott, and Julia and V!









What we thought was just going to be a drive by and then go eat night, ended up being a ridiculously fun photoshoot session... XD We stayed there till 2:30, where we had to part with everyone and return to Dustin's house, where I think we fell asleep.... Oh no we ate... then fell asleep.


We woke up at 10 on Sunday.... ate breakfast of eggs and bacon and grape fruit juice, and sweet tea. *u* YUM. Then got ready by 2, and left. I think.







We just loafed around the con where we ran into Popecerebus, Sam, Anela and Erik, and Andy Lee! It was really fun. At around 6 we decided to call it a day and head to our planned destination after AX... KOREAN BBQ BINGE. Except for Iris because she's vegetarian. T___T I'm so sorry Iris. D:




We return to Dustin's house-- where we eat some more crabs and fruit salad and cassava cake. We were going to go somewhere to look at fireworks... BUT instead we did a makeup Ganguro and Goth makeup contest. Jimmy won the first round, and I won the second. HORRAY! Not that those places really mattered because we all looked ridiculous afterwards. After Eddie, Iris, Jimmy, and I did our make up we all took turns on Dustin for his ridiculous, I don't even know makeup... Hahaha. XD





Iris and I start feeling sleepy, but the boys and Dustin's brother Brandon stay up till the wee hours for a Super Smash Brother's tournament. We slept through the whole thing.

We wake up, and try to plan an adventure before Iris left... but we ended up chilling in the backyard till 4. We got out for some coffee and then the deesastar began. We head over to the train station to drop off iris, but the machine was broken, so we rush to another station near by. We race the train only to see it slowly disappear. D: Iris misses her train and we go to LA Union Station to refund the ticket. Since we were in the area, we go to Zencu for dinner. Then we all call it a night/week and separate for the first time. Jimmy goes back home, and Iris and Eddie come home with me. Iris leaves in the morning at 9:30, and Eddie stays.


As for after con, Eddie and I have been exploring. On Tuesday, Eddie and I explore Chinatown, and buy dragon balls and almond bread. We also found some Lychee Black Tea. We ate at Subway because we stumbled across coupons, then we watched Naruto till 5 in the morning. On Wednesday, Eddie misses his train, and we go to Thai Town to buy Thai Tea... then we head to Little Tokyo where we find the best Ramen place I've encountered so far.... DAIKOKUYA. *U* HOLY CRAP this place is so freaking good.... IT was so good that Thursday/yesterday, we went again to have some Hiyashi. *u* OMG and that was so good toooo. Ahhh, I want to go again to today for some Tsukemen. *u* But maybe I'm spoiling myself and eddie too much.


Other than that, we've been watching Naruto non-stop. We put in some episodes of Kurozuka and X, but mostly Naruto. Lol.


Sorry that was so freaking long. I just really don't want to forget, which I'm already sure I'm missing some of the more fun important parts. Its really fun to just BE. sitting around everyone laughing and eating and  thinking about food, and wanting to dance the BEG Abracadabra dance, and wanting to speak random languages, and eating again.