Flew into Los Angeles a couple days before Anime Expo this year as I was going to have to leave on July 3rd to get back in time for summer school (which sadly, didn't work out~)
I stayed in the Orange County before Anime Expo and mostly spent it hanging out with Bryan, Daiji and Kohei. We'd mostly just go eat or hang around Lollicup late at night in Diamond Jamboree. It was fun!
Got to Los Angeles to check-in for our hotel and stuff on pre-reg day, the 30th and ended up not doing much... just went to Ralph's to grab late lunch/early dinner and walked around to location scout I think?
DAY 1:
First day was kinda boring but I met up with Miju and his boyfriend, Monkey~ it was nice just to hangout with them since I missed them a lot!
and yes... that's Ricky photobombing us in the back, lol~ we were waiting for Daiji to get off work so we hung around the con doing nothing and thus, camwhoring ensued.
In the end, Daiji didn't join us for dinner since we got back to the hotel kind of late with the shuttles taking forever and so on. We taxi'd to Little Tokyo to Honda-ya for dinner.
I just ordered salmon carpaccio and ice-cream (really? I thought I had something else too...) and Monkey treated me as an early bday present ^^ It was yummy though the ice cream wasn't as concentrated as I'd like my green tea to be~
Mm...we wanted to go sing karaoke at Max afterwards but they were full so we just decided to go home. I got dropped off at my hotel and just slept like crazyyyy.
DAY 2:
We worked for Toshio Furukawa during his autograph signing in the dealer's room. It was my turn to sell his product and at first, I was super confused since I wasn't explained properly about how the sales worked. @___@" In the end, things worked out and it was fun! Killed time, haha~
We had lunch at Wolfgang Puck's after because we were all getting hungry~ the service wasn't very good though and Miju said he doesn't want to go again, ever :( lol
I didn't wear my sakanachan wig until late afternoon (~6pm) because I wanted to work more "professionally looking" that day. So while we chilled in the hotel room with blasted A/C, I got my hair cut by Miju and my wig fixed!
After that, Miju and Monkey went to the photoshoot for my sakanachan cosplay~ Mike helped me do a shoot and we got kicked out of the pool after a bit for being professional xD"
We left to eat dinner with Miho and her friends in Koreatown at Kyochon. It was nice to see her again since it had been a while n__n Kohei met up with us a bit late and Daiji couldn't make it. When we finished, Kohei dropped Miju and Monkey home then we headed back to AX area for some drinking fun times in Mike's room at the JW Marriott. Met a lot of friendly cool people there~ was great!
Kohei and I had to leave soon after because Daiji was getting hungry and he wanted to meet up. So we ended up going to Denny's where I was tired and a bit moody =_= Didn't eat anything so just sat around and got back to Westin (our hotel room) lateeee evening. Slept like the dead!
I flew out on the 3rd day of AX and didn't have the time to stop by to say my good-byes sadly. Kohei and Daiji dropped me off and I received a lovely birthday present from Kohei. He got me a set of "Lola", one of the perfume lines by Marc Jacob.
Overall, I wasn't having the craziest of fun times this year but I did meet a lot of peope and make new friends so that was probably the biggest highlight. Not to mention just spending time with my favourite friends♥ I really want to go back again before the end of this summer. Not sure if it's quite possible but I'd really like to! So I'm trying to make more money and see if I can do something about it in late August. Hope it'll all work out.
Thanks for reading :)
