We made it to Anaheim in one piece!!

We took the Supershuttle to our hotel which turned out to be about 3 blocks from the Anaheim Convention Center and got ourselves checked in. We called Shinso and he was alreay there so we put on our nerd faces and walked quickly to the the Con.  We arrived at the Con at about 2pm.

Upon setting foot on the sidewalk to to Con we encountered our first people in costumes.  WOW they were intriquite!  People really put alot of time and effort into these costumes.

We waited in the wrong line for our badges for about 5 minutes before we were joined by Shinso!  Just for the record, Shinso is really Asian despite rumors in guild that he was pretending to be Japanese, lol.  He was joined by his friend that pretended to not play much WoW, Jesse (He knew WAY too much about it to not play!) and Lawrence who was the soft spoken, quiet Reign member that never really joined in on our nerd-rage rants.  Later that day, their friend Jason (Hoshiko) joined up with us after getting off work.

Friday was basically a tour of the area.  We didn't take part in any of the discussions, rather we walked around with wide eyes trying to take it all in.

The end of the night was when the festivities took place.  Jay Mohr hosted the event and was pretty funny. 

The costume contest was pretty spectacular, people really put alot of time and love into their costumes.  I didn't envy the people in full body paint.  The bubble-hearthing pally, the Eredari Twins, lots of Draeni, the Warlock costumes were amazing as well as the Tyriel costume.  The Draeni with the motorized turtle mount took the cake as she was in full Season 3 gear and rode in on a turtle.

The /silly contest was OK, but most of the jokes were terrible.

- What's the different between Superman and a resto Druid?  -- Superman has a weakness.

- What is a female's favorite class? -- Male enhancement Shammy.

The dance contest was good.  There was a decent disbursement of dancers and I think the only class that wasn't represented was the female human.  The winner of the dance contest was the undead female dance.  She could pop and lock like crazy and moved with the music perfectly.  The facepaint helped quite a bit.  My favorite had to have been the Boomkin/Ogre dance.  The guy stripped down to his undies and a loin cloth and was just crazy.

After the festivities, we jumped in the cars and headed toward some delicious ramen.  Now, this is not your average top ramen, this is Japanese-made-really-bad-for-you-but-so-damn-good ramen.  I took a pic of the bowl and will be posting a picture of it in all it's glory.  We had to wait outside for about an hour before we could get seated and we almost had to split our group of 6 into a group of 4 and 2 in order to sit.  We all managed to sit at the bar in the end and Shinso and company only ate 3 extra things of ramen instead of the usual 6...

After filling ourselves up with noodles, Gares and I retired back to our hotel room to finally get some much needed sleep and get rested up for a full day of nerdage on Saturday.