Anime Expo '09 ~ Day 4

Day 4: So uhh... I've never really had a bad con experience with room-mates or getting into trouble before. I guess I was pushing my luck or something. I woke up to door-banging. Leo was banging on the bathroom door. See, Kevin passed out with the water still on in the tub, and the whole area was soaked. I was lucky my stuff was on the end of the room. But poor Lexy, half her stuff got soaked. I didn't want to deal with the room so I headed for the Vendor room. After all, I didn't really buy anything yet because Technika sucked me in. Yeah, there was a DJMax booth this year selling their stuff, and they had their new arcade game up for a free test run. Really awesome. I went ahead and bought their game for my DS to get myself a premium card that would save up my stats. I dunno, maybe in a year or so there'll be an arcade her or out east somewhere that I could play it again...

Anyway, I stumbled into Jeremy when I entered into the dealer's room and we were just tlaking when Leo called me saying we might get kicked out. I ran back over to the hotel and everyone else was packing their stuff. That big puddle that formed was leaking into the room below us. It was interesting because we would get different people knowcking on our door (well, there was a security guy that was there the whole time...) the first lady, whom I wasn't there to see, was appearently just down right rude. Taking pictures and claiming our place was trashed and we threw a party just because our cosplays where all over the place. And despite us saying the average con-goer's room was far worse than ours with 8-10 people, it didn't matter and that there should only be 4 people and who was Jeremy, why wasn't the registerd card user with us, but then later another lady came who was calm but very serious. I was the one that ended up having to talk to her for some reason. I guess because I had an understanding of the polacies and had best contact with Jeremy and whatnot. Things calmed down from there, but I was still freaked out about the possability of leaving a day early and the fact they took our ID #s. She wanted us out, and left the security people to wait there until Jeremy showed up. Buy the time he got here, I had called him about the situation and Kevin was sober enough to help out. He really is a great guy. He says one thing he truely believe's in is to take responsability for your stupid-arse mistakes. By this point a third lady came, whom I think was the con-relations manager. After it was explained that it was just an honest mistake further examanation showed that really all they had to do was soak up the water, clean the carpets, and patch up the floor below. Minimum damage that only cost about $300. She was a great lady, and the security guard also seemed to feel bad for us the whole time. Jeremy was also a great guy because he just kind of helped us pack and was talking us through what was going on.

Anyway, long story short, they obviously wanted us out of the room so they could clean it as fast as possible, and we did, too. They were understanding enough to give us another room. After all, it was past noon, the check-out time. Most AX attendees had left already so we had some options. And everyone was happy. Well, but I missed out on my dealer room time, and ended up not getting anything I wanted. Not like there was much I was actually going to buy in the first place, because quite honestly, I was, and still am, very dissapointed witht the dealer's room this year. I understand with the economy not to expect huge deals, but even the selection was all the same! Gah, ok rant over...

After that we did as scheduled. I went with the Jeremy group to crash the pool and after that he had a reservation at one of the restaurants in Little Tokyo for us. It was great, authentic food. They had a "specialty" menu set aside for us at a flat rate. Kind of like appitizers of what they had across the board. And we also got to sit in one of their traditional rooms, so we sat on the floor on those cool little cushions. Then we had dessert at Beard Papa's. Oh, the glory that is Beard Papa's! I'm missing the Halleluja chorus already. It's that good. It was discribed to me as the asian Krispy Kream's and I believe it. Actually all it is is a store that sells gigator cream puffs. Yup. Cream Puffs. If I can help it, I'm totally moving as close as I can to one of their locations....

Then, the Mariott right across the street from us has a theater right below it. I finally got to see the new Transformers movie. It was good. I liked it, despite all the un-nessisary inuendos. But I do have to say this. You guys all know me, I go through marathons and enjoy sitting through Lord of the Rings and whatnot. This was a long movie. It can happen! It felt like it was long to me! It very well just could be the result of a very long week-end of fun, adrenalin, going-off-one-meal-a-day, and no-sleep. I was tired when the movie ended. But whatever. After,a guy in the group commented how cool we are for hanging out in the finantial district of downtown LA on a sunday night after Independance Day. I though that was great.

So yeah, we had a great last night in our new room with our cool buddies. We couldn't have had anyone better to be stuck with for this adventure. They're back in Pheonix by now. Oh yeah, one thing I forgot to mention was how nice the weather was for us. Really. Nothing above 95, I think. There was always a breeze. Last year was appearently death to all, and that's what I was expecting, but it was great weather! Oh but another crazy downer was all of the New people that took up the parking for the Staples Center because of the Michel Jackson memorium thinggie that's going on right now. But whatev. We checked out by noon and on the way by about 12:30, but not before Brandi was awesome and got us all a dozen more cream puffs from Beard Papa's~~~ Well, and also more Pocky and ramune' for the trip!

We had a safe journey back. We had Cici's Pizza at Vegas. Because that was the one thing Trevor asked to do when he OKed the trip. Yay cheap pizza baffet!! Then we stayed at St. George with Lexy's grand-parents for a little bit. They had a nice house, and it was a nice last little stop before getting home.