[Oct 29, 2011 – New Orleans, LA, US]
Halloween. What to do?
This year, I went to New Orleans, LA (US) for the Endless Night Steampunk Vampire Ball on Oct 29, 2011 at the House of Blues. Started around 9:30pm and I got back to my hotel room around 3:00am. Luckily, I didn’t have to wake up till 9:00am on Sunday so I did get some sleep… SO, here are the pics:
[October 20-23, 2011 – Seattle, WA, US]
Flew from DCA to DFW to SEA, second week in a row… It was a “mileage run” but there was a handy con in Seattle so that was cool.
On top of that, my work buddy collects mugs so he wanted me to go to the first Starbucks store in downtown Seattle so I figured what the heck. And my friends Charissa and Kevin were supposed to fly to Seattle last year for SteamCon II as a wedding gift but they didn’t make it so I got an extra one for her.
I was at the SeaTac Airport Hilton so I hopped on the light rail (which took 45 minutes) to get to downtown Seattle. Got the mug and hung out at the Pike Place Market and went to a French restaurant (Maximilien). They had Absinthe on the menu so I had to have one. That was cool.
After that mini-adventure, I attended ZomBcon 2011. There were a lo of zombies and zombie killers running around. Is there something in the air in Seattle that this con didn’t have a con suite and didn’t have any party rooms? (If you recall my last post on SteamCon III, they didn’t have a con suite; and they had only a few party rooms which were insufficient for the attendance. Oh well.) Anyway, here are the pics from the con…
[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…
[September 29, 2011 to October 2, 2011 – Whitefish, MT US]
This was a long trip (and a ton of air miles of course) from DCA (Washington DC) to DFW (Dallas) to SEA (Seattle) to FCA (Glacier Park International Airport). Went to my Cousin Stephanie’s wedding. My dad went too. Stephanie’s dad (my Uncle Jerry) was there of course but the other two uncles from Arizona did not make it. It’s weird to go to a ski resort when there is no snow. Took so many pictures I actually drained the battery in my camera. I took over 500 pics. Here are the 253 better ones…
[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…
