Ok so *Jianre-M was invited to *raiagirl's wedding and ~amascusmage and I went with. We drove to Colorado and got some great pix of the way there. (If you want to see them note me and I'll tell you were I posted them.)
We arrived in time to have a nap and then go to the rehearsal dinner that night at a restaurant called Old Chicago. It was so fun to meet the families and friends of *raiagirl and *dragonsthatservegod. There was also a little group of us that were 'from the internet'
Back to *raiagirl's home to meet all her little furry friends. Her ferret Guinness was especially popular. I think in the end we called him a floppy ferret... he liked to just kinda fall over instead of put alot of effort into it. It was great. That and he kept putting his wet nose into *Jianre-M's ear.
The next day was the wedding! It was in a beautiful church and had a very nice service. *raiagirl and *dragonsthatservegod totally looked like love birds (well dragons as the case may be). So happy!!! I hope they will post pix when they get back from their honeymoon. After the wedding *Jianre-M, ~amascusmage, and I talked more with Crystal, Ben, and Jennifer whom we had met at the rehearsal dinner. Totally fun people and so when we got to the reception we dragged at least Crystal with us to the table we picked. Absolute blast!
During the reception I threatened *Jianre-M and Crystal with dragging them out to the dance floor but they ran and got away. I'll get them next time!
We actually ended up having a little get together of our own in the sitting area outside the reception 'cause it was so hot in there with everyone having too much fun. *raiagirl and *dragonsthatservegod joined us on their little breaks.

Next Day (Sunday) we said our goodbyes to the newly weds and headed down to Santa Fe, New Mexico to see ~ScreamingLama. She used to live in so-cal and we miss her lots now. So we decided to drive to her place to see her!
It was great and us girls had a little sleepover and talked alot. Well sorta. *Jianre-M mostly laughed at ~ScreamingLama and I. We glomped her a few times.. just a few. It might have involved pillows...

Next day it was on our way home when right outside flagstaff, Arizona a bad storm hit us. We didn't think much of it until we started to slide a bit. So we slowed down. Well until the I-40 came to a complete stop...... for an hour and a half.
*Jianre-M put up a journal and I kinda stole this from her but she said it best:
"we got stuck outside of Flagstaff Arizona for an hour and a half when the snow got so thick Semi-Trucks were Jack-knifing everywhere and had to be towed off. It only got worse, when trying to get through the mountains we got stuck behind ANOTHER accident, this one a Semi-Truck THOROUGHLY CRASHED, and crushed, ... in the 2.5 hour wait for that one, it blizzarded, rained, snowed, rained, and then fogged before we got moving. SO the DOWNHILL mountain slope was BLACK ICE... absolutely covered in FEET of snow-slush, with Semi-Trucks sliding in front and behind us, mere rear-wheel drive on our SUV, less than 15-feet visability at 2 in the morning, and it was snowing, windy, and foggy... and did I mention it was a STEEP downgrade? and I don't own any snow-chains... (I'm a spoiled Californian after all...) we crawled along at 2 miles per hour, sliding for every foot of traction, skittering between both sides of the road without warning, ... we traveled like that for 2 hours before we could pull off the road and stop. Tried to sleep in the car when it was 20 degrees outside, (it failed) and took off again at 7am to try and get home."

It was scary! And I wasn't even driving! That was all ~amascusmage I'm used to Washington State weather in midwinter. I go up almost every other winter for about three weeks to be with my family for christmas and newyears. We had about three storms come through this last year but it didn't scare me like this.

But we finally got to the otherside of the mountains and thawed out. I think we got home around 2:30pm on Tuesday. We were all wired from the adrenalin of the night before. So yeah.. the otherstuff... shiver.

So we are home. Recovered from the lack of sleep. I'm back to making stuff and I think I want to try to make something for all the holidays. Just to see what I can come up with. I was thinking either a four-leaf clover or a green cross for St. Patricks and maybe an eagle or maybe fireworks for 4th of July...


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Schedule for Conventions I'm Attending:

Anime Los Angeles [CA] (January 2-4 '09)
Further Confusion [San Jose/CA](January 22-26 '09)
Sakura-Con [Seattle/WA] (April 10-12 '09)
Anizona [Phoenix/AZ] (April 9-12 '09)
Fanime [San Jose/CA] (May 22-25 '09) - Artist Alley
A-Kon [Dallas/TX] (May 29-31 '09)
Califurr [Irvine/CA] (June 5-7 '09) - Dealer's Den
Anime Expo [LA/CA] (July 2-5 '09)
Comic-Con [San Diego/CA] (July 23-26 '09)
Anime Festival Orlando [FL] (July 31 - August 2 '09)
San Japan [SAn Antonio/TX] (August 14-16 '09)
Sac-Anime [Sacramento/CA] (August 28-30 '09)
AnimeFest [Dallas/TX] (September 4-7 '09)
Dragoncon [Atlanta/GA] (September 4-7 '09)
Nan Desu Kan [Denver/CO] (September 11-13 '09)
Autumn Dream(Ani-Magic) [Lancaster/CA] (October 16-18 '09)
Saboten-Con [Mesa/AZ] (October 30 - November 1 '09)
Anime Los Angeles [CA] (January 8-10 '10)
Further Confusion [San Jose/CA] (January ??-?? '10)
Sakura-Con [Seattle/WA] (April ??-?? '10)

~Legend of Emotes~
= Got Badge and Table!!(or a Shared Table)
= Got Badge.
= Planning on attending if possible.
= I WISH I could attend! but so far I can't
= Bust... or decided not to attend
= Con is done and went well!!
= Dreaming of the Future...