I'll try to type up what i remember, i have terrible memory.
Got up early-ish, i don't think i slept that much the night before. Packed up all my stuff into my car and made a quick stop to IKEA. I only wanted their $2 2 hot dog, drink and chips deal, but i came too early and i didn't want to wait 30mins for that part of the store to open. So i went to eat breakfast in their restaurant. I got some $2 breakfast meal, when i went to pay guess who was at the register? My ex from high school. I tried not to make it awkward by trying to act normal. I think it worked. So the breakfast had french toast sticks, bacon, and eggs. The eggs were fake and i knew it immediately, i didn't eat them, they grossed me out. The other stuff i tried to eat, but i know forcing myself to eat doesn't work. So i basically threw away most my food, lovely. I went downstairs for the hot dog deal and went on my way.
Drove to Irvine to pick Mika up. I expected traffic but didn't get any which i'm okay with. We then started our journey. We talked about a bunch of random stuff. We hit some traffic, it wasn't so bad just a small delay. During this time Mika shows me these things she made. They were black cotton balls with googley eyes. She then proceeds to throw them at me, while i'm driving! Okay i'm exaggerating, they popped out of her fingers and i got really scared for some reason, lucky we weren't moving at the time. After that patch of traffic everything was fine. I think we were only like 30min delayed.
We get to SD and try to call Ann but she didn't pick up her phone. We went to this different place to try to get our volunteer badges but we were at the wrong place, we were supposed to get it at the convention center. We left their parking and had to pay $3 for like 20min of parking >:( what a rip off. So we drive to the convention center and then drive in circles looking for parking. We found some street parking and paid the meter. We walked to the convention center, it wasn't too far and the streets were super easy to navigate. We got our assignments and just hung around the convention center until Mary and her friends got to the hotel. I actually got a preview night pass, i was debating whether to go or to just sell it hahaha!
Ann finally called back so we parked near her school, it was pretty cheap. We visited her studio and hung out there for a while. She was working on a life size 3D rendition of herself made out of cardboard. Ann introduced us to her hot friends and we just chilled for a little bit. I made her a monster thing out of cardboard. Her class was going to start or something so me and mika stopped by this awesome shiwarma place. I was seriously in love with my falafel. Once Mary and her friends got to the hotel me and Mika drove over to Ann's house and parked the car there. We got picked up and me and Mary got dropped off at the convention center because i wanted to go to preview night and i had to show her how to get an assignment.
I was by my lonesome at preview but it was no biggy. I got there like 6:30 when it started at 6pm. I wandered around trying to look for toys to buy, Ann wanted a Nibbler and i wanted a bunch of stuff too. So i just stand in line to buy some Scott Pilgrim merchandise, the buying line and autograph line were right next to each other so i got to see Bryan Lee O'Malley up close he was like 2 feet from me! It was pretty cool. I bought volume 6 at the booth because my copy didn't arrive in time for me to take it to read at SDCC. I also bought a poster, the book came with a rubber bracelet, and i bought this small Scott Pilgrim comic book. After that i just wandered some more seeing if i could get any freebies. Slim pickings. I was tired from lack of sleep, hunger and visually over stimulated by all the stuff at con. I took the free shuttle to the hotel, i was going to say back to the hotel but at that time i hadn't gone to the hotel yet.
The rest of the gang waited for me to get back before we ventured out for food. They decided on some place called JWOK because of yelp. We didn't really have to wait to get a seat for like 7 people. They were an Asian fusion type of place, i don't think i've gone to that type of restaurant before. So people were hungry and ordered some small plates of food and drinks. I got some Thai tea, i was craving it because i was on a water and alcohol only diet since coming home. People's small plates were apparently very delicious. I ordered something called Tasty Pork. All i knew was that it was a sandwich and i was hungry. Once we ordered we were browsing through the menu. There was something called the J-OMG. We all wanted to know what that was but the waitress told us it was a surprise. I was guessing it was going to be something disgusting involving peanut butter, mushroom and other stuff that Mary hated. We all got our food and thoroughly enjoyed it. My Tasty Pork was to die for, so tasty like it says in the name. We were all satisfied with the meal after a long day. We then ordered the J-OMG, we had no idea what we were in store for. It came out and it didn't look like much, sort of like a folded over fried crepe, but once we tried it we all died and went to heaven. It was sooooo good. It was like a crepe and fried but with condense milk and sugar or honey. It was just awesome and we (maybe just myself) kept saying JoMiGod!
We did some shopping at a CVS i saw cute puppies and we went back to the hotel. We were all pretty beat. I slept in the bed with Mary, then it was lights out. OMG someone was snoring up a frakkin storm. Mary and i barely got any sleep, the snoring was so loud and consistent. I think it was the worst night of sleep i've ever gotten. I tried sleeping with the pillow on top of my head and all sorts of things, it was just so loud.
July 21: Gas Lamp district, this place was poppin during comic con.
July 21: Me in last year's volunteer shirt and Cafe Diem from Eureka (tv show)
July 21: Bryan Lee O'Malley author of Scott Pilgrim
