Thursday: After being picked up by
Friday: Went straight down to where registration was going to be and lined up, where I met Quietfire. After getting my registration done and getting a room key from Trigger, I helped Trigger and Quietfire in getting the fans to the Fursuit Lounge, and later I was pulled away to help with getting the stuff for the Con Suite unloaded from the trunk of a van. Afterwards I was heading back to see if I could help out with anything else in the Fursuit Lounge and I ran into
Saturday: Went to the video room for the Saturday Cartoon Breakfast first, which was cool, especially since there was free food like cereal and and a toaster for toasting the english muffins that were brought. An episode of Thunderbirds was on when I arrived and everyone was making some funny comments during the episode. I then went to the Meet Keovi panel and after that, I went back up to the room to grab my disposable camera I bought the weekend before Califur (Yeah, I didn't have my digital camera with me this time. My mother's camera busted and she had to borrow mine for the trip to Ohio.) and took a few pictures of the fursuiters that were around before the fursuit parade line-up would start. Unfortunately, from what I heard, the line-up happened in the kitchen area of the hotel due to a wedding, which was pretty stupid if you ask me, along with some black curtains later that made me go "WTF?!". Anyway, got some pics of the parade, followed by a few of the group-up and then when into the big tented area they had up for the dinner event later on. There I met and chatted with
Sunday: Got a quick cereal bar from the cafe before going into the game room for a bit. There I was asked to help with setting up the bowling part of Wii Sports for the fursuit event that was going to happen. I then was able to pick up my new badge from Likeshine and she did an awesome job! I was glad to have gotten the chance to commission something from her. (I'll be putting it up tomorrow for everyone to see.) After that I caught the Furry Improv panel and learned a few things about improv that I keep in mind when FC 09 comes around with their improv panel. After that, I met and helped say goodbye to Far Raptor as he going to be leaving the hotel, and later said goodbye to Domafox too since he had to go catch a flight back home. Most of that day I was either wandering around, or in the game room playing Rock Band and I also played Asteroids on an Atari 2600 as well, which was a throwback for me. I then went to the talk-back for the con and found out about a few things I didn't know, like the rudeness of the people of the wedding group, which ticked me off. I headed out a little after 5 pm and said goodbye to Tabbicus since he was leaving to catch his flight back home. I then saw Fire Wolf and was invited to hang out in the room he was in along with quite a few other furs before leaving with Trigger to head back home.
Overall, I think this con was alright. It was great to see and talk to not just old friends, but new ones as well, and I'm glad for that, but the way the hotel staff and the people for the wedding acted was really, really bad. I personally hope that the staff for Califur find a different hotel because with this along with the way too much space of the hotel and lack of close-by inexpensive places to get something to eat, it just wasn't all that great. Still though, I would definitely come back next year, just to see friends and hang out 'cause that's what I expected the most out of this con.
Now, one other thing that happened during Califur was that my cellphone decided to start breaking down. At first it was just the main screen, which was inconvenient but I still had a second screen on the outside so I could tell who was calling and also the time. However, it got worse on the last day of the con when I lost the second screen and later, the top speaker. Luckily, my mother saved her phone (same model, but has a camera button to make it easier to take pictures with it), so I have a fully working phone again. I just have to re-enter the numbers I had on my old phone onto my new one though.