Oh mama, I’m just having fun on the stage in my heels It’s where I belong down at the Pink Pony Club
Hugged my two kittens before I left for the weekend. I took the train from Irvine station. It was a quiet Thursday in Orange County. I had “I Have Confidence” from The Sound of Music in my head as I was taking the seaside train ride to San Diego. After two hours on the train, I checked into my hotel overlooking the Pacific Ocean and USS Midway. Our hotel was on the Pink shuttle line connecting all the San Diego downtown hotels. Little did I know that it would take almost an hour to get to the convention center which was 1 mile out from our suite.
After an hour on the shuttle bus, I walked from PetCo Park to the Hyatt Grand in hopes I could still get into the Her Universe Fashion Show. I had friends participating and I wanted to support them. Alas, I had no clue that the Her Universe Fashion Show was considered an “off site,” in other words, it was not a part of official comic con programming. You needed a wristband to get in – wristbands were already sold out once they were released at 11AM. I arrived at 4PM in hopes there was still room.
I was wandering around comic con’s massive dealers hall dressed as Taylor Swift in the Evermore Era set in the first iteration of the Eras Tour. Anyone who recognized me got a friendship bracelet. I also had questions if I was Rogue from the X-men or if I was from Dungeons and Dragons. I now want to create an Evermore witch character in Dungeons and Dragons, but as an adult, no one’s schedules ever sync up. Ah well.
I ran into my con-buddy, Prof. Rams. Even he was feeling a sense of defeat from his first day at comic con. While I did pick up a few books at the dealers hall as a way to cope (books make everything better), Rams and I decided to take an Uber to Fashion Valley to go catch Deadpool and Wolverine. We would think that the movie would be sold out because of 1) opening night and 2) we have a huge comic con audience in town. Low and behold, we scored the last two seater at the cinema for 9PM. Without going into spoilers, we loved it as much as we loved the gourmet ramen we had for dinner. 
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