{"id":3188,"date":"2014-08-11T10:23:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T15:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2014-08-10T21:05:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T02:05:05","slug":"leakycon-days-2-through-wendi-riggens-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/leakycon-days-2-through-wendi-riggens-photography","title":{"rendered":"LeakyCon Days 2 through ?! – Wendi Riggens Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I have to admit, the rest of the trip kinda blurs together in my mind. If it weren’t for the date stamps in the Exif data on my photos, I probably wouldn’t be able to tell you what I did on which day! I mostly just did the daytime programming and skipped the concerts and the ball, knowing that when I got home on Sunday I would have two demanding little ones that love to keep me up late and get me up super early. Even on vacation, one does not get a total break from motherhood!<\/p>\n

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Even so, I had a wonderful time. I sat in on some excellent panels, got to know the group I traveled with better, and marveled at the outstanding cosplays. My favorite panels were:<\/p>\n

Snape: Not The Hero We Deserve by Brad Ausrotas (read his post on this here, so well done!)<\/a><\/p>\n

Crazy Potter Questions by Nick Penner<\/a><\/p>\n

Anxiety, Depression, and a Drug Called Fandom put on by my friends Rein, Jazz, Scarlet, Denise, and Ginger<\/p>\n

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There were SO many panels that I wanted to go to and couldn’t because they overlapped with others, or because I was starving, or because I wanted to hang out with friends, or because I needed to pump (again, there is never truly a break from motherhood!).<\/p>\n

The cosplays were pretty amazing, too! My favorite was Snape, followed closely by Gilderoy Lockhart. Some of these people spent months creating their costumes!<\/p>\n

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Check out the eyes on the zombie to the right. Creepy but cool!\"OLYMPUS<\/p>\n

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I spent a LOT of time in the vendor room, too, and even though I didn’t buy much, I did end up with another wand and a couple tshirts. There was some seriously cool stuff being sold!<\/p>\n

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I also ate Korean tacos (yum!) and high-fived Iron Man.<\/p>\n

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Another fun thing I did was help to (hopefully) break the world record for the most people wearing paper crowns in one place. I tried making one last-minute but was saved when someone else couldn’t go and gave me hers instead. We had to sit with the crowns on our heads for 5 minutes. If one fell, we had to start over. Somehow, with 700+ people in one room, all wearing paper crowns, not a single one fell!<\/p>\n

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Another highlight of my trip was meeting Lauren Fairweather<\/a>, who graciously let me use her song “It’s Real For Us” <\/em><\/a>in my Harry Potter project slideshow. She is so sweet and beautiful and funny!<\/p>\n

And how can I forget to mention the ribbons? Oh my stars, the ribbons! I was lucky to have several friends running panels that gave me ribbons, and happened to be in the right place at the right time to get a few others. I also found three, including the coveted “Colin” ribbon, just laying on the floor, abandoned. I ended up with 21 ribbons total, not bad for my first con!<\/p>\n

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We ended the trip with a game of Cards Against Humanity. If you have never played before, do. It’s hilarious! Dirty, wrong, and absolutely crazy, but hilarious!<\/p>\n

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And yes, this happened. Screwdrivers out of a bowl…<\/p>\n

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And this happened, too…again…\"OLYMPUS<\/p>\n

Overall, my trip was great. I’ve been to a lot of conventions before, mostly photography ones, so stepping outside of my box and going to my first fan-con was a unique experience. Will I be back? I hope so!<\/p>\n

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So, I have to admit, the rest of the trip kinda blurs together in my mind. If it weren’t for the date stamps in the Exif data on my photos, I probably wouldn’t be able to tell you what I did on which day! I mostly just did the daytime programming and skipped the concerts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}