Dragon Con… Freaks or just having fun? September 6, 2004
Posted by Liz in : General , trackbackFor an early birthday present this year my in-laws gave me two tickets (so Ben could go with me of course) for Dragon Con so I could meet Anne McCaffery. We had a great time and did get to chat with her as she signed my books. Thank you Ramsey’s for the tickets; it was a really great experience and we both had a lot of fun.
Ben and I woke up early on Saturday and packed an overnight bag and headed on our way out the door to Dragon Con in downtown Atlanta. We parked our car and walked up to the hotels that were hosting the event to have a look around. Wow, was my first thought… these people are a bunch of freaks. Mind you it was Belle and Snow White walking across the street followed closely by some kind of monster. (I think it was going to eat them.) As we get a little closer you see more and more costumes walking around. Then oddly enough you start feeling like you are underdressed… maybe I should’ve worn something more than just a Buffy and Spike T-Shirt. It was wierd how I had found myself thinking I should have some kind of costume on… that I am the freak. Well maybe I didn’t get that dramatic, but next year I think I will have to do at least a little something more.
Now the parade was really something to see… and yes I did take pictures, but really it is just a glimse of what it was like to be there. The work and money that some people put into their costumes is unbelievable. It was also cool that many dropped into their special pose if you asked to take their picture. Now there were some people that walked around dressed up as… well, let’s just say Ben and I would look at each other and shrugged. Thankfully those were not too many as we were mainly surrounded by Storm Troopers, Fairies, Klingons, and the other creative costumes. So over all I would have to say that the people walking around all dressed up are not freaks; just having a huge amount of fun.
Saturday night after a long day filled with fun we stayed at the Hilton courtesy of Ben and hotwire.com. Have to say that I am kind of disappointed. I had a little higher expectations for it. The room was nice, but I really thought that it would’ve been a little fancier. It was funny though.. waiting on the elevator to go to our room I heard someone make a comment “There are some more of those people”. They had seen our Dragon Con badges. LOL So we may not’ve been wearing fun costumes, but we might as well have been because evidently with or without the costumes you are labled as one of “those people” if you attend Dragon Con.
Ben and I walked around quite a bit and went to different tracks and I will not bore you with all of that. The coolest thing was I meet Anne McCaffery and her son Todd McCaffery and got to hear them read a chapter from the next Pern book Dragon’s Blood. Anne is such a great strong reader… it was a great experience that I will always hold dear… now Todd needs to work on his reading a bit.
The only thing that we didn’t get to do that I wanted to was to have a beer with a bunch of Klingons… but there is always next year.
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