God Metrocon went by so quickly that it doesn't seem like it happened.

We left on thursday night at about 11:30. All I did for the first 5 hours was listen to music and then w stopped at a rest area in North Carolina and slept for a bit. After that I didn't wake up until we were near the end of South Carolina. But then after a while I went back to sleep and woke up again when we were already in Tampa and looking for the hotel. In the end we got there at around 6:20 pm. I felt bad because I had told Hina-san that I would be there at like 2 or 3 >.<

So once I put all my stuff away I changed into Satoko right away so that I could meet up with Hina-san. I met up with her and then we went back to her hotel room so she could change into Rika :3 She changed and then I got my badge and also a masquerade pass. I bought myself a mask too incase they didn't let me in because everyone had masks on. Although the funny thing was that nobody cared if you had one or not. Honestly we both thought that the masquerade was BORING! The music was all slow for the couples and such and there were too many acting parts so there wasn't much music. We decided to leave and come back for the rave. After that we just walked around until we found a ton of people outside and once we got out we saw people in avatar costumes and fire XD They did all sorts of tricks with the fire, it was soo cool! It made me want to start watching avatar. By then it was about 10 and we decided to get in line for the rave. The wait was pretty long and we were soo tired. And then they let us in and we were all pumped up. The first thing we did was buy glow sticks, I bought two small ones and Hina-san bought two big ones. They were like light sabers XD So we dance for a while until she had to go back.
I was actually surprised that I danced at the rave, because I never do lol. I also had an extreme good time, and since the space was huge it wasn't like there was people a lot of people around you or bumping into you.
I got back to the hotel at about 2 am. Then I just ate something, took a shower and then I watched this Higurashi video that Hina-san told me to watch called Casey and friends. It's HILARIOUS! Any Higurashi friend on my f-list should watch it if they haven't already!


On saturday I got up and changed into Keiichi because we were going to cosplay higurashi again :D When I met up with Hina-san she had an awesome Hanyuu cosplayer with her, so we hanged out for a bit until her friend who was cosplaying Rena came. At around this time she also gave me my surprise. It was like Mikuru's apron, cat ears and a cat tail. I looked so funny XD At this time we were going to take our picture at the photoshoot place, but it closed and wasn't going to be opened until 3:30. We had to wait such a long time! But we had fun while we waited, we went to the dealers room, walked around and ate. Now one of the most annoying things about saturday was that there was another event going on right next to the convention center! It had to do with Red Bull. But downtown Tampa was crowded! Nobody was allowed to drive around and it felt even hotter with all the people walking around. It was crazy! Even inside the convention center was filled with people from the red bull event. Some of them were ok, but most of them were drunk and mad rude comments about everyone cosplaying.
After taking pictures with the Rena and Hanyuu we walked around looking for paper and a marker to make a sign that said "do you know Oyashiro-sama?" XD Luckily there were two nice people in the artist alley who gave us a piece of really nice paper and let us borrow their marker. The funny thing was that nobody got the sign. Only one person did by responding "Yes! Hinamizawa" hehe. Then we decided to change. I changed into time skip Simon and Hina-san changed into Shuichi. Although when we were going up the elevator there was this drunk guy talking to us that freaked us out. Luckily she was on the 5th floor. Then we just really walked around until about 10 something. By then I went to get into my rave outfit. It was actually really really lame, I wore my Itachi wig, the headband and the sharingan contacts with some capris and a black shirt. I don't know what I was thinking lol, but at least it was comfortable. We got in line at about 11:30 and we had to wait two hours to get in! It was ridiculous! They even spilt us up into two single file lines. We were so pissed off! One thing I did during the line was retire my sharingan contacts. I ripped one and the other one I just placed on a plant. it looked like a lady bug XD Then we finally got in! It took us longer though because we weren't in the front of the line. We didn't get a chance to buy glow sticks because the line was long, but luckily some people gave some away to us XD Then we just danced until Hina-san had to go back to her hotel.

On sunday I didn't stay long. I wore pre-time skip Nia. I meet up with Hina-san in the dealers room and I bought the Lain dvd boxset and a D.gray-man shirt. Then we just walked around until I had to leave. Then it was a long drive until we got home on Monday at 7 in the morning.

Now for some pictures!
I'm going to start with pics from Hina-san's camera :D

She took this when I left lol




Yaoi!! XD






Do YOU know Oyashiro-sama?




My wig SUCKS! I hope the one I ordered comes in time for Otakon!


Now pics from my camera









This Alessa cosplayer made my day on Saturday!! :D


There are better pictures from Hina-san's camera, but she hasn't uploaded them yet. Might post them later.


So yeah i'm super glad I was able to go to Metrocon. It was so worth it! And it was amazing meeting Hina-san! She was soo nice and without her I wouldn't have had much fun :3 Hopefully i'll get to see her again some time soon.

Now that Metrocon is over it's time to start working on costumes for Otakon. For myself i'll be making Kanda from DGM, Hideaki from Gakuen Heaven, Sakura from Tsubasa and i'm adding Ai from Law of Ueki because it can work for thursday and for the rave XD Then I have to make a lot of commissions for people. I'm probably going to die, but it's all worth it in the end, especially because i'm going to get paid :D

Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO u_ate_my_bento!!!! :D