Sorry for the delay I had to do more important stuff like trying to find job.
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Pictures at
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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.
