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August 29th - Thursday

First, the expected picture of my roommate sleeping

OK - opening day! Requisite picture from the con and on to other stuff :) (Opening Ceremonies - John & Bjo Trimble, David Cherry, Vernor Vinge and Ferdinand Feghoot)

Delivered the egg cartons to the Fan Funspace - I have no idea what they're going to do with them.

Went to registration and got my badge

and commenced exploring.

Three huge rooms off the main concourse - Hall 3, right by the doorway to our hotel, was the Dealers Room filled to the brim with goodies.

Hall 2, not as full, had the fan history exhibits, the fan and con bid tables, an expensive hot dog and drink stand, the Locks for Love charity, site selection voting and the autograph tables -- they also put the Musketeer fencing exhibition in here later on. Hall 1 was the Art Show - in addition to the usual, they also had an artist sculpting a 5 foot high dragon near one wall

Then I met up with JD and we headed off to the Fairmont, passing the famous statue on the way

and going to lunch with Kristine Smith at Johnny Rockets

Back to the Hilton, because we weren't quite sure when E was getting in - and we found the Shadow family in the lobby instead

Where's E? After waiting in the lobby for about an hour, I asked at the desk -- seems she'd checked in 10 minutes before we got to the lobby. So we all trooped up to the suite and waited for E to call us

and Chip presented us with socks - I got the squids, and the rest got Martians :)

E shows up (she was off actually going to panels! Imagine! At a con!), we all put on our Propeller caps courtesy of Jan, and walk about 5 blocks to the O*W*C dinner at Waves Smokehouse. The streets are filled with people -- it's 'Music After Dark' in downtown San Jose. Free concerts! When we got to our rooftop table we discovered we had lost Star, and Nadia went back to the hotel to get her. Seems that while she was busy staring at all the people on the street, we disappeared into the crowd.

After dinner, we went weaving through the people in the streets again (Star held onto the back of my shirt so she wouldn't get lost), past the fountains and the statue, and back to the suite to talk without keyboards until it was time for the Shadfamily to leave.

A fun day and night. *Tomorrow* I'll go to some panels. I swear.

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