Irish / Guinness Stew and home made soda bread. No Corned Beef for me.

Sorry for the delay I had to do more important stuff like trying to find job.
If any fursuiters wan to be identify let me know by dropping me a line.

Pictures at
http://pics.livejournal.com/actonrf/gallery/00038yc3

The con: Furry Fiesta I
The Place: Crown Crowne Plaza Hotel Dallas Texas.

Thursday
Woke up around 6:00am I wanted to beat the rush hour travel. Frontier names there planes after animals and I got Lance the Ocelot for the Portland to Denver leg. The only problem was I had to deal with a family with their two scramming kids and a mother without modesty. I lost it after two hours and cursed the mother that the kids give the mother as much grief as the kids given me. The Denver to Dallas leg was on Grizwald the Grizzly Bear (Frontier Airlines names planes after animals. In addition, a good omen to fly the bear). I got to the con hotel and I finally met  then and went out to the Blue Goose for Mexican food. The place is very good and the freshly made flour tortillas cannot be beat.

Friday:
This will get thin here, Fury Fiesta had very little in the way of organized events. I assume it was they though it going to be a small social convention I spent most of my time meting new furs. or watch the expression of non attendees; there was Orthodontist convention going on at the same time. I got to meet  and spent time talking to Phil Geusz caching up form the last time we met at the first Rainfurrest. I decide to take around my new travel Hello Kitty, I would love to bring the 22in one or bigger but I do not have the room. Unfortunately my experiment had mix results showing some averment to Hello Kitty by furries with a raccoon trying to eat my kitty. He made up with a group picture. After the opening ceremony I went out with  , KT (Kinky Turtle), Dingo and another whose name I can’t remember went out Texas de Brazil Churrascaria aka the meat faucet for a serious meat-ex (exercise in Navy lingo).

Saturday was the same except I finally go to meet Narei Mooncatt and watch Draconius perform as Calamity Cougar and shot off a roll of film and may a picture of me with a few cuties. I also picked up a hand painted d bear head on wood, it will make a great addition to my Christmas Tree.

Sunday I took time to attend Holly Communion Church, a Reformed Episcopalian church with a long and interesting history. It was originally Native American sacred ground latter used as a stopping off point for the cattle drives. The church was founded in the 1870’s by Methodist and became Episcopalian. I walked among the settlers old-timers grave stones noting the number of grave stones place by decedents of civil war veterans….all Confederates. (I did not dare to ask where the Union section was 😉
It was back to the convention and I caught some of the fursuit games and meeting more furs, the numbers started to draw down to a few hundred at the closing ceremonies, 50 around 11:00pm then 20 at midnight with Firr doing fee drawing in fursuit.

Monday I walked the convention grounds most were quite but the in some room the howl of furries was replaced by the cheers of motivation speakers. So after I returned the car and went back to the airport…

Post CON.

When I made plans to attend fury Fiesta, I made a decision make this a real vacation and flight out to San Antonio, I was station there with my father in the 1970’s. I flew in and checked in to my hotel and did the Alamo and Riverwalk. The next day I picked up the rental and spent the day touring, taking pictures and drawing at the San Antonio Missions National Park. The Alamo is not the only Mission but one in a string of missions. Wednesday I packed everything up and went home.

The lowdown:
Convention: 8 out of 10 I would give it more if it had more organized events. The staff was amazing epically handling almost twice as much attendees without a major incident.

The Hotel 10 out of 10: I usually scoff at the question “did business X made you feel like a valued customer” I have to say yes to the staff at Crowne Plaza Hotel Addison TX.

The Good
The Hotel, Furry Fiesta Staff

The Bad:
Nothing

The Ugly
Filk Panel that was more of a profane laced rant on Parody Songs.

Over all I had a great time I wish I can say I will be back but Fury Fiesta is a out of region convention. My home convention is RainFurrest. There ar others I want to do like Anthrocon, Megaplex, Fur Fright, Midwest FurFest I only have so much money and time to attend conventions. Time will tell.

In San Antonino it was sunny and will reach 82F. Got home Yesterday at 7:50pm it was rainy as anything in Portland, This morning there was snow on the ground. Tonight it will be in the 20's
Had a good day of job hunting I was call ed by another company but I already submitted to two other firms

I had a great time in San Antonino and in Dallas.

I will get to writing a more formal con report when I get back.

Sunday was bitter sweet, the last day. I went to a Reformed Episcopal church for morning services then rushed back.  I was disappointed with the Filk panel, and except for keeping the beat the panel was more about parody and his profanity. The coloring  panel was ok. Moat of the cons I spent in the little used con suite. After the closing ceremony, I watch thing dwindle for hundreds, to 30 plus four fursuiters around 11:00pm, where I got a free drawing by Firr in fursuit.  The number of furs still out dwindle  about 15 at 12:00am. Next morning I returned the car and took one last walk around noting how quiet and the howls of furs been replace by howls forma motivation seminar. From there I went to the airport and flown out to San Antonio doing the turist thing  until Wednesday.

Hi folks It been a while since I given any report. I have a great time at Furry Fiesta. My goal is to meet new furs and many furs I know about but never get a chance to see because they do not go to the NW corner of our country or I never had a chance to visit central or east coast cons. One phenomenal fact is the attendance; they were originally planning on around 270 or so now the count about 550.
One thing abut this con was the low number of panels, I think of they had the same space as All Fur Fun. The again if one has been to a furry panel you most likely seen them all. Friday I spent the time talking with furs running into  and  or watch the expression of non attendees; there was Orthodontist convention going on at the same time. I got to meet Bucktown Tiger and spent time talking to Phil Geusz caching up form the last time we met at the first Rainfurrest. After the opening ceremony I went out with Draconius, KT, (Kinky Turtle), Dingo and another whose name I can’t remember went out Texas de Brazil Churrascaria aka the meat faucet for a serious meat-ex (exercise in Navy lingo). Much of my time was spent cruising the hall and meting new furs. Saturday was more of the same except I did go to Phil Geusz reading and shot off a roll of film at the fursuit parade.