I'm off to the wonderful world of AlCon...

Ah...months of planning and so on and the time comes...For AlCon3! I had gotten ready, you know. I planned to go to bed at 10pm...Well, I did. Yeah. But I didn't fall asleep til midnight, then woke up at 3am (as planned). Well...My family got up, we put the stuff in the car and left at 3:30.

We had to leave my sister for two days by herself with her son, plus the dog and cat. Course, my sister wasn't happy about that. Oh well. I was going to AlCon anyway! :D

The drive was pretty uneventful there...Iowa takes a long time to get through...Illinois has a lot of tollroads. But we listened to Al all the way there!

Then we hit the city of Chicago...um...we only got lost for 2 hours there! No one gave us the right directions we needed. ~sigh~ Oddly enough, we were about to ask the police to escort us or whatever...The officer went, "Down the block." Oy! Only two hours to find the hotel.



Oh yes, and maybe two cars down from where we parked...I saw a car with the lincese plate W A YANK, I think. Very close to that. But I knew I was in the right place now! :D

Okay, so I realized that with seeing people walking around in hawaiian shirts. :D

Well, we checked in and stuff, did the usual putting stuff away and so on. Then I decided to roam (with stuff loaded in my arms) to find other Al fans. Actually, I talked to Luke Ski without realizing it! He loved my dancing Harvey hamsters! I really should've asked for his autograph! Why didn't I!? Argh!

Well, I didn't really find that many people at 1:30 so I wandered to PB's room (she had a sign on the door) and knocked. Her dad answered and told me she was eating in Honest Johns restaurant in the hotel, also that she was the one with spikey hair. I walked over to there and sure enough I saw a spikey haired girl eating with other hawaiian shirt wearing people. I just kind of walked up to the table and went, "Hi." PB introduced herself and I did the same. Then everyone else's eyes lit up and I had found more STUPIDs! Ha! DebBob, Becca, Ali, Kim if I remember right. We all talked for a bit, then DebBob, Becca, and Ali had to go off to report for volunteer info at AlCon.



PB and I followed Kim to her room which she was sharing...but my Bob! What an Al shrine! I bow down! And I loved the presents I got! Well, Kim, PB, and I all talked for a while. Kim had to do something, so PB and I went back downstairs to find more Alfans. While heading down we sang Amish Paradise loudly which passing Alfans loved.

Anyway, well, we talked to some more Alfans; PB then had to go ahead and do something. I talked more with Ira and then DebBob, Becca, and Ali came out from their meeting. We went back up to their room and more presents! Yeah! We talked more. I was really silent and I thought I'd be the talkative one! Ha!



We went back down to the dining area and...more STUPIDs! We found Angie and Nick, talked with them. Also, CatieBob! Then who decides to join us? MegBob and Ambri! More talks! More talks! And then another STUPID joins the club...Katie! Cha! We all talked some more...And I went to go grab something and came back...




Oh yes, at some point I went outside with someone (PB? CatieBob?) and saw a cool looking van that someone did designs on! I thought it was Katie's since I saw a pic of her vans and what she did for the last AlCon. Actually, it was Bobs! :O



Well, then people were lining up to get in or just crowd around and talk. I joined MegBob and Ambri and we talked, Katie joined us for a bit. We talked and then MegBob grabbed someone who was walking past us and who was it? Bob! Finally! 'Bout time! We had been searching for Bob allll day and there he is. We all talk for a bit, then he has to go off to his posse.



We finally get to go in for the yummy dinner! Most of the us STUPIDs sat at the back table right near the sodas. We convinced Bob to join us for the dinner and then who comes? AccordionBob/Karen! Yeah!

We all talked and joked, halfway eating, but also paying attention to the nice video screen and listening to Al music playing. I loved it when the entire table sang along with the songs! We ate our yummy dinner (the chicken/crow was good!) and stuff! Okay, technically we first stared stupidly at our salads and when the people began to collect plates...Oh! It's for eating! Then we got dinner. ^_^ Also a nice slideshow thing was showing. :D

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