After that bit of madness it was time for the X gathering. For the first time, I was at a con where people recognized me as bridal type Karen! Yay! SDCC...hardly anyone knows X, Anime Central...still got the bridal accusation. The group gathering was tons of fun! We met up with the cosplay.com group gathering of goodness. It was tough running around in the white high heels. ^_^; We made it!

After the X gathering, Tom and I got into our Card Captor Sakura costumes. I went as Nadeshiko and Tom went as Touya. I had my Sakura Platina dolls with me for his sister. We had a mother and son dinner. Dawn joined us for some chat about cosplay and life. We ran into Jarod, and he was willing to take pictures of the Kinomoto family.

Our company didn't really feel like doing the masquerade. I was fine either way. Tom got changed into Lupin so he could do the kareoke. Tom was working on this Lupin III song ("Superhero") for the show. Jarod was still drafting people to do his Space Shake song. For a second I thought the song was Milk Shake. So, I went up first doing "My Blue Sky" from Sakura Taisen. Tom and Jarod did the Lupin III song. Jarod was really funny on the vocals! *lol* It was a cute duet between the two. Then Jarod did his "Space Shake" song. That was a most interesting experience...^^;

Afterwards, Tom and I checked out what was left of the masquerade. They were showing winners of the amv contest. There was a really good Macross Plus Top Gun one. *^^* Then there was the Little Things That Kill video which was very adoreable. Evangelion vs Pikachu and Tamas vs Mechas. Lovely! It came time to announce the winners and though I haven't seen the skits, I was amazed by the costumes on stage. ^^v

After the masquerade, I decided to head back to the room and change into my Chinese dress. Wait! I'm missing my Sakura doll. Tom and I retraced my tracks to find for her. Gone...she was gone. ;_;

Went back upstairs to change. Rested in the hotel room for a bit and did some packing. Ace wandered about in the Chii ears. Tom and I went downstairs to check out the dance. It wasn't that great. -_-; We hung out at the cosplay.com table again. Albert was playing the eurobeat. "Fantasista" was on and I did the routine to that one, but I didn't realize it was part of a megamix. Since Tom and I are the ballroom type, we started doing random ballroom moves. ^^

We decided to call it a night and head back to the room. Ace was watching Highlander and some sports special on HBO. It was 2:30 AM and we had to be up bright and early for check out time. Oyasumi!

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