Here it comes! My ultimate super long journal! Yay! And it's not done yet. However, I already have peeps asking about pictures and I promised to link them through DA and facebook. So... Here goes. (journal will be updated periodically as I remember stuff. Big updates, like extra days added, you will be notified.)

Thursday April 5 2012 (Day 0)
So... of course the first thing is waking up after... four hours of sleep? lol. and I took my dog over to my mom's house and then ran a few errands. Along with her boyfriend Dassad and her brother Opt, we loaded in the car and were on the road to Seattle about 10am. After a stop in Ellensburg for breakfast, and North Bend for coffee for Scarlet (and something to take my meds for me) we arrived in Seattle after 1. Still having an hour before our hotel checkin, we drifted the International District. (didn't find what I wanted... T.T)
Just after 2, we checked into the Grand Hyatt. Gorgeous hotel. Big and splendid... but not one I will come back to. (though I was entertained with something... but that's not until day 1.)
Then we went to pre-reg.
I rather liked the Conference Center where pre-reg was being held. While there, we met up with and one of her friends. Made plans to meet up with her at the day 0 photoshoot.
After getting our badges, Scarlet and Opt went back to the hotel room and I went straight to the day 0 shoot, where I met up with Tabby-chan again and (Nightwing) I was sitting there and I wanted to ask a couple of Assassin's Creed characters for their pictures. Instead, I had a random brainfart and asked them for their phone numbers... Yeah. Tabby-chan isn't letting me live that one down.  I can't fully remember everything we did afterwards... but I do know we split up after a while. Tabbychan, her friend, and I all went to the first floor lobby and hung out there, where Nightwing caught up to us and we just hung out. Scarlet then joined us wearing her Quatre costume. Afterwards, Scarlet, Opt, and I ate at Gameworks, and then I went to play games. Went back to the hotel room, then slept.
Link to pictures: [link]

Friday April 6 2012 (Day 1)
We got up right around 5, 5:30ish and went to the first floor of our hotel so Dassad could actually register for con. (He was a last minute addition to our group and didn't have a chance to pre-reg like the rest of us did.) Sometime around 6:30 I got bored standing in line and went back to the hotel room to get in cosplay. Thus began the epic journey of Zelos Wilder! The epic journey right back to the registration line... This time with Opt following. Eventually... I got bored again. Yes... Zelos gets bored easily. After a little bit of boredom, Dassad finally registered and we got food and coffee (for Scarlet) and went to con.  From there, I went after a Narwhal plush as soon as I could, Opt got into the priority wristband line, and Scarlet and Dassad were on the second floor for a small doll meet, which I caught up with them at. After derping around there for a bit, I then ran into and we wandered a bit together until she had to go to the cosplay chess pre-meet. I went to check out the opening ceremonies. There I met and her sister, each respectively dressed as Lloyd and Colette. Being close to 11, I drifted outside to where the Fire Emblem shoot was going to be. However, as far as I could tell, the shoot flopped. Nobody showed up, so I went to the Dealer's Hall instead and picked up the three volumes of Teahouse for and a couple of keychains for myself. Then I ran into Lloyd and Colette again and we started drifting the con together. I can't remember why, but we would up coming back to my hotel room, which is where I got to be in character and pick on Lloyd. I believe "Only the best for the Chosen" is what I had said. Afterwards, we returned to con for a moment so I could pass a vest to to pass to Then me, Lloyd, and Colette went to Westlake Shopping center for food.
After successfully filling my stomach, we returned to con and drifted the dealer's hall together. While I had lots of fun with them, it was time for me to go to my panel and get it set up.
Speaking of my panel... It flopped. Majorly. It was my SCMB Meet and Greet panel. And it seemed like nothing went right. Started with them moving my panel from Saturday to Friday because there was no room on Saturday. Then Scarlet decided she wanted the laptop to stay in the hotel room so it wouldn't be risked being stolen. All I have to work with is my print out. But then that's not the most flopped part. Only about seven people showed to the panel, and all of them were already on the forums. So everything I was telling them, they already knew. But it wasn't a complete waste. We spent 45 minutes derping around and having a good time making fun of my speech and attempting to coerce random people who stuck their heads in the room to come in and sit down. One group felt really bad for walking in, and then attempting to sneak out while all attention was on them. After the panel ended, I caught up with Lloyd and Colette again. They wanted to go back to their hotel to drop stuff off and get their masquerade stuff. While they did that, I did some more shopping, landing myself a grab bag (which I didn't like any of and will be taken to the swap meet on Sunday), more Tales of keychains (including Zelos, who I was after), a Pansear plush, a tiger totebag, and Suikoden II for my fiance.
(to be continued)