WONDERFEST 2025

SUNDAY Considering the hour I went to bed, I woke up at a decent hour. Around 9. After a shower and food I was feeling great. Time to go hit the contest room and see how I did. I was surprised to find all my styrene kits got merits. Some were really nice but a couple of them were 'meh'. I was a bit shocked that Litch King didn't get a merit, as I thought it might. It's a good thing I don't put a lot of stock in the contest results or I might be upset. Sure, it's nice when your hard work gets recognized, but I don't honestly care if I get anything or not. The contest is a deadline I use to motivate myself to actually finish kits. Then I can bring them to the show, put them on the table and show them off. I am much more interested in the conversations with people about the kits, how I did this, or how they did that. The results in no way affect how I feel about the kit, or what I did with it.  I just find some the results interesting. After that I hit the dealers rooms to check the Super Tiny Terrors again. Saturday night I checked my list to what I was still missing, and write them down to go through Terry's stuff again. I did end up finding 4 more. Then it was around the room to see if there were any different pieces. Then, I planned on grabbing a sandwich in the hallway for a quick lunch. But the line was terrible. Cannot remember exactly what I ended up eating out of my supplies I brought, but I do know it wasn't as filling a good sandwich would have been. Then it was back and forth between the dealers room and contest room, taking pics and visiting with people. Doing a bit of shopping. Etc. Finally the time came for them to kick us out of the dealers room. I was with my daughter at the time so we made plans for an early diner to get it out of the way.

Made a run to Bob Evans and had diner. I think that was about the last time I saw my daughter. We may have seen each other in passing but I was visiting with people, and I think she was spending time with Michael. He was going to Atlanta after the show for a month of training, while she was going back to Denver.

Then I went to my room to relax a bit, then start packing stuff. Like all my contest entries, and purchases. Then I took those down to the car so I wouldn't have much to do in the morning. This is my normal routine. Get all the little stuff taken care of before going out and having fun. By the time I headed to the courtyard, the party was in full swing. One of the props in the display room was a full sized Arc of the Covenant, which opened up to be a bar. And they had quite the crowd right at the base of the stairs to the patio. There was a good crowd at the top of the stairs as well.

Hung out there for a while, then headed down to the lobby to hang for a while. Then called it sometime around 2-3 am..

Got up in the morning, Ate, hauled the rest of my stuff down to the car.
Then it was time to check out and leave.

Ride home was just as uneventful as the drive down. Traffic moved along nicely and I made great time. At least until I got on this side of Cleveland, then it was frustrating.
Being a busy 2 lane stretch after flying along on 3 lane highways most of the day was a bit aggravating.

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