That is how I spent most of my day, just wandering, visiting, hitting the room for snacks and repeat.
At least until the classes were done around 5. By then some of the
dealers were loading in. Got together with Ross and Bill about dinner.
They liked going for pizza last year and we wanted to do it again this
year. It was just a matter of deciding when to go.
Bill wanted wait to buy admission and entry forms, but we eventually
decided to go early and come back for that, knowing the line waiting
for that was already long. Brit didn't come along as she and her
boyfriend were in Cincinnati.
Turned out to be a good decision, I can;'t imagine waiting in that line while being hangry.
Anyway, we had a great meal and brought back leftovers for lunch the next day.
I was supposed to meet Tom at the Iwata room at 6:30 to add a couple
kits to the display for the meet-and-greet. But the room was locked,
and I found Tom on his patio eating dinner. After a couple other people
tracked him down there he finally got motivated :-)
Dropped off the kits then I went to stand in line for registration. What an ordeal.
Earlier the line was almost down to the Iwata room, now it was down
near the bathrooms. On top of that line, there was another line to buy
show merch on the other side of the hallway. Plus, the dealers were
loading in. So it was quite the congested cluster.
The line was slowed because of the new system with the pre-printed
entry forms which they had to stamp [paid] after you paid for them. So
as with anything new, it was slower than normal.
It wasn't horrible and I visited with some people while in line.
After that was over, I went back to the room, dropped off the forms, grabbed a beer, and hit the meet-and-greet.
|
Some really cool kits, and lots
of cool people to visit with. Many were test driving the new paint line
from Iwata. I wasn't interested. I have enough regular paint, and I
don't trust anything that says you don't need primer.
i circulated between the Iwata room, the lobby, outside the load-in doors, and the patio.
After the meet-and-greet ended, I took my kits back to the room and hung out at the Embassy again.
I'm just gonna dump all my Canadian Embassy photos here, as I don't
remember which ones are from which day. I spend most of my after hours
there all weekend, as I never really ran into anyone I knew in the
lobby.
|
