Category: convention

 
 
 

[October 13-16 , 2011 – Seattle, WA, US]

Flew from DCA to DFW to SEA. Left 2:00pm Eastern and got to my hotel 1:00am Pacific. Ug, so I slept a bit late…

Hotel was nice and huge with people milling around all day and night. I was at SteamCon II and it was so so, but hey, it was their second year. I thought they would get it together this time but sadly, not quite. There was a major lack of party rooms – I mean attendance was in the thousands and there were a whopping 3 party rooms per night. And it had no con suite! I mean really? There was a volunteers’ room that was about 99.999% empty about 99.999% of the time. That could have been a con suite right there. (And you really don’t have to stock it with goodies, just a few snacks so people can gather and mingle – that’s the whole point – so it can be uber-low cost.)

There were two bars in the hotel so people split between the two and there never was a “place to hang out”. Oh well. Maybe next year. A lot of people were there during the day but dissipated into the ether as it got into the evening. Not a good thing. Well, with all of the handicaps that were there, the intrepid people did hang out and have fun.

Here are the pics from the con…

Girl Genius at SteamCon III

 
 
 

 
 
 

[September 22-25, 2011 – Addison, TX, US]

Flew in the DFW airport and hopped into a limo and went to FenCon in Addison, TX (US). It was a nice hotel and the con was hopping with a lot of people. A great full blown con with a real nice con suite (hospitality room) and there were room parties! So it was a great time! Handed out my ToServeFan.com website cards and a few people signed up for the FaceBook.com/ToServeFan and ToServeFan Twitter page so that was icing on the cake.

Here are the pics from the con…

Honor Harrington, FenCon 2011

 
 
 

 
 
 

[Aug 17-21, 2011 – Reno, NV (US)]

This year, WorldCon was held in Reno, NV. WorldCon is the annual event where the Hugo Awards are given out. WorldCon Reno page is here: WorldCon 2011 in Reno. Met up with two friends from New Zealand and one from Sacramento. Also bumped into a few familiar faces. Hung out at the Klingon room party most of the time.

And, I bought a “Friend membership of the bid” (which means the entire amount will be applied in full as a discount on Attending membership of the convention, in the event that the bid succeeds) for London. First time I did that for any WorldCon, well, since I like London I guess. Ha! WorldCon London Bid 2014 is here: WorldCon 2014 in London.

Again, I was having too much fun to take a lot of pictures (sorry) but here they are:

WorldCon 2011 poster

 
 
 

 
 
 

[Aug 04-07, 2011 – Indianapolis, Indiana (US)]

Okay, the second gaming convention I have ever been to. GenCon was huge. It was two to three times as large as Origins in Columbus. Just hung around the Flying Buffalo booth most of the time. Visited my friends, Kevin, Charissa and Shelly out side of the con for lunch and/or dinner. Didn’t take too many pics, but here they are:

Doctor Who, a Weeping Angel and Amy Pond at GenCon2011