RECCA-con 2002
      june 8-9
      pittsburg, ca


      hee hee... my boring little adventure up north! =D this is cut and pasted directly from my bra grr

      okie! but i should get down to my RECCA-con log yes? ^^ okie!!! *points down* warning! long long LONG entry ^^;;;

      Friday! i wake up at like at 9:30a... and finished packing a few things... like toiletries... and so... i did that... then ate a little breakfast! waited for annie to come over since we planned to ride to ONT together! annie arrived... *shakes a fist at evil traffic* and we left to ONT! which we made right on time... and ??they confiscated stuff from me... AGAIN! evil airports! i had my swiss victorian card... you know... so that i always have my mini 3" scissors w/ me... and they took the scissors, and the letter opener. they were looking at me as though i was going to bomb the whole airport. and the guy kept saying "we can't allow you to bring on the scissors or the KNIFE on the airplane. you'd have to check it in with your bag."

      they wanted to confiscate the entire card... since the whole thing was such a dangerous object! so funny since i actually bought it ON AN AIRPLANE when i was flying to italy back in 99... ha ha! stupid airports. i'm being evil and sort of hoping that someone just walks in with a chainsaw... ??and says they're a hairdresser or something! grrr... 2nd pair of scissors lost to them. whorebags. i couldn't cut my thread or ribbon on the plane... so no handsewing for me! booooo. plus the lady who's at the place to give you your boarding number was a total whore to annie. we should have gotten her name and reported her as being a rude bitch. because she was. anyways, ONT airport sucks ass! so no one fly there! sure... shorter lines, but mean people as opposed to other airports i've been in.

      oh. plus at ONT... they said they were "on time" but i guess "on time" to them means boarding people on your flight when the flight is supposed to leave. we had a 20 minute delay because of that.

      arrive at OAK airport... and search for gary... call him up... and annie says, "does that girl look familiar to you?" me, "i don't know... but she shouldn't be wearing that outfit." LOL anyways... then we recognized her to be that Doritos girl! lol at all the security guards checking her out! gary finally picks us up! *huggies gari-ojisan* so nice of him to pick us up! then he takes us to the Stoneridge mall... omg... that heavenly-evil mall!!! we ate lunch with gary... who was so sweet to pay for lunch *hugs again*... and then leaves to go to work for 2 hours. two girls. two hours in a mall. i need to buy my nacchi earring and ring... so we look at a map.

      "omg they have a sephora."

      ... again, i repeat the following: two girls. two hours in a mall. there is a sephora nearby.

      ha ha ha! we ended spending 45 minutes in there! and it would have been more if we didn't remember having to buy my nacchi earring! back to sephora though... annie got this sweet sweet brush set! and they had a wall with 50% off sephora make up stuff ;_; i ended in buying _only_ a wide-tooth comb... since they didn't have foundation in my color! ;___; it would have been only $11... grrr... and they had this hair clip that was $12... but would have went perfectly with morning coffee outfits! *dies* but $12! i'm not rich ^^; anyways! so we leave sephora... and visit all the wonderful stores on the way... Hollister, Banana Republic, Macy's, Nordstrom's, Victoria's Secret, Forever 21, WaldenBooks, Steve Madden's... finally made it to claire's accessories... and was reminded not to ever have more than one daughter. ew. pre-teen girls in an accessory store. bought nylons at nordstroms! and o_o at their purses. and O_O at annie wanting to buy that $100+ purse! hee hee... finally met up with gary! but stopped by the See's Candies so i could get my dose of sugar ^^ *pouts* gary was joking with this couple about how i'm a sugar crazy person ^_^;;; soooooooo we head over to pittsburg, cali! to visit the college since we don't know where the ramada in is at ^^;;;

      go to the college... and =O my phone rings. wow. it's mike. very surprised he called me. we talk for a bit... then gary finds someone to take us to the ramada! so annie and i go to the ramada and rest! we get get comfy and unpack and chillax for the time being. i get scissors from the front desk to finish something on jade pjs... grr though since scissors totally suck! they didn't even cut through thread o_o. gary goes to the college... and then tiff comes! yay! then kie comes! double yay! then jon, wayne, wayne, and bran come! yay yay! gary shows up again and we eat dinner actually... we ate at lyons... and my meal was yummy... i had chicken fajitas... i thought that it had 3 tortillas... but o_o only gave me two... was still yummy and got me nice and full. annie's food looked really good... and >_< cause tiff's and wayne-sama's dinners were bleh O_O get back to room... ramada 214 and rehearse singing... hee hee lots of momosu... and yay to dancing! kie is super cool cause she knows lots of dances! all is yay! we sleep not too late... don't remember actually, but i shower and put on jade pjs and we sleep!

      saturday! wow! all that text above just for friday! so we wake up saturday morning around 9:30a... i run to get everyone breakfast =D cereal, waffles, juice, milk, and other random things... i don't remember! but make it back to the room... take piccies in jade PJs hee hee... then i put on shoes and go jogging with wayne to joannes! wayne-sama's card only had $0.13 on it! LOL! i bought my glue gun and sticks... yay only $2.75 ^.^ and get back to the room... to find that yugioh is a repeat. oh well. it's ok. soooo wayne changes into squall... and i change into chii! yay at my new wig! LOL because it look totally long on me since i am shoe short! ^.^ it was a bit hot since it's black stretch vinyl... but luckily the college is very shaded! we arrive around 12:45p... and o__o at me holding a cosplay panel at 12:00p with rey rey! o___o rey rey for cosplay panel? and at 12p? it would have been nice to know... but no biggie! we walk around and waiii! we got to see cute sara in her cute hikaru costume! she showed us her Mini Moni camera/compact/phone set! soooo cute!!! i can't wait to see her Mini Moni group! it will be so cute!

      ah! back to the convention... hmmm so we walked around... gah this is long... O_O i found they had para para there... we wayne-sama and i were led by j_kub to go visit the game room... and >_o it smelled bad ^_^; no ventilation... but i really wanted to play... so i finally did... i haven't played in forever... and yuck! it wasn't an arcade machine... i'm spoiled and all... so i was hitting the censors wrong... blah... so i left and couldn't find wayne... but i had to get out of there... then wandered around asking where wayne was... and visited the dealer's room! ^_^;;; they let me in even though i didn't have my badge with me... wayne was wearing it ^^;;; but i guess since i was in Chii, they let me in. there wasn't much for me to be interested... BUT! the best booth was the video/dvd booth! *_* of course all my attention was drawn to the giant stack of DVDs all starring or co-starring Donnie Yen! gah he is sooo hot *_* i wish i could marry that man! *swoons*

      *revives* but i refrained from purchasing anything at the moment and proceded to exit and walk around... finally found wayne! yay! then we walked around... found everyone else in a *gasp* cosplay/masquerade panel held by brian! it was a nice panel... heh heh... ^^; so glad he didn't use our angelic layer skit as an example... but he used dewprism and sara's angelic layer skits as good exmaples! yay! =p to lionel passing me notes! LOL then we realized it was about 3p... and we had to leave back to the room for rehearsal! ^_^

      so back to the room we went... and all changed into morning coffee gear! we rehearsed a lot... and left back for the con.. ^^; we were a little late... should have been there at 4p... but arrived at about 4:15p... and saw the masq people lined up... no idea why... but we waited there... then found out we were supposed to return at 7:30p... we saw the inside... they let us practice on the equipment! yay! they used us to test it also... but we got live practice! yay! that was super nice and the best thing ever! they even marked off where we should stand! then told what time to return... we left to go take pictures!

      and take pictures we did... O_O we took so many pictures! we took like a million pictures! most can be seen at USA Musume HP and under Al's RECCA-con report at cosplay.com! we took pictures all around the college campus... which just happened to be perfect that it was in a college since we looked like a bunch of school girls! ^.^

      here is one USA Musume photo! courtesy of the wonderful Al! He has the coolest printer and camera! He printed out us photos at the con! ^_^ i can't wait to see all of his pictures!

      ^^; also reminds me that i really really need to get myself a camera... any camera... well any decent camera!

      okie... so we finished taking pictures... went back to the masq are... and i got more food <_< cause i was super hungry... shoooe... then we waited for masq to start! and... then it started... and wayne was so awesome when he introduced us! "where did he get that coffee mug?" LOL and yay because we sounded good! the equipment was so wonderful! and the masq was short and sweet! and the crowd was very supporting. so the masq ends... then we walk around... get interviewed by the people with the video camera... and talk to people... it was really funny! some people asked me if we had a CD out ^^; so flattering! we took the O-HA pic! *laughs* and more school classroom pics! then we ran off to eat... cause we were super hungry!

      yay to Applebee's! yummy food *_* Otome Pasuta ni Kando! that was sure some yummy pasta! plus we go to watch our performance on al's camera! super cool! happy because we sounded good! like the CD! ^^ happy happy! much better than fanime mics! yay yay! so we eat... ah... so satisfied... then i have a yummy apple dessert *__* so yummy! then off back to the room!

      everyone showered and slept... bran crashed in our room since gary didn't need to rent a room again ^_^; watched some things on the computer... chobits episode 7! yay yay! but then O_O i got this giant allergy attack... and got congested like crazy... *talks nasal*... so annie and i switched beds with tiff and wayne... so i would be closer to free moving air ^^ took some dramamine... just so that i'd get sleepy... and finally... silence *_*

      sunday!!! gah saturday was so long wasn't it? we did quite a bit for it only being a 2 day con! wake up... and tiff and i go to get food for everyone. it was around 10:10a or something... and bah... this lady gave us attitude... i wasn't sure if breakfast ended 10a or 10:30a... and instead of being nice and offering us the leftover food she acts all uppity... baaah... boo to her! so we go back to the room with food... eat... finish packing... call for late check out! the guys all leave to head back o so cal... and then yay! go swimming! tiff and i though, annie didn't have swim suit... and O_____O cold water! hee hee! we jumped in at first... cause it was so cold! we stayed in for maybe half an hour... but O_O got super tanned... even annie got a tan and she was sitting under the umbrella!

      back to the room to shower and examine our tans ^^; hee hee then changed... and i turned into comfy nerdy yukino and tiff into the peace! kaori! annie stays annie and we check out via TV... and head to the con! gah this is so long! i simplify now... no more details!

      back to con! eat! meet with Kie! take piccies near lake! dealer's room! buy DVDs... Ballistic Kiss, and Fists of Legend *_* yum! see little sara and her mom and find out they're showing Angelic Layer! watch the first 5-10 min of Angelic Layer ;_; but the con was closing!!!! so we had to leave! we meet with gary again and tiff leaves... and we stand outside kie and gary's cars... forever talking about momosu... then decide to eat! Marie Callenders near Kie's house! baaaaaad service!!!

      then off to Kie's house to originally watch the Momosu musical... but we ended watching great music videos! Dream! Da Pump! Momosu *__* at Mr. Moonlight! hitomi... waaaaaaah! *__* i swoon! we then head back to gary's house! ;__; scary stories!

      arrive at gary's house! change into sleeping clothes! play a little on gary's comp! hee hee... then finally sleep *_*

      wake up next morning... shower! change! eat some pie! and head over to OAK airport! and make it just in time o_o

      back home in so cal! yay! eat lunch with annie at thai specialty 2... don't know where 1 is... then off to work!

      and soooooo was my trip ^^; long, ne?