We got there around 2, and at the registration desk i randomly wandered into a cute girl who i'd met at LosCon last year. After registering we wandered through the dealer's room, the went to the filk room where coincidentally the same person/group was performing that we heard at the pagan sumer solstice fair. After that was done we looked around the dealer's room a little more, then we went to the first part of an Alternate History panel, featuring Harry Turtledove, Barbara Hambly, and two other people i don't know much about. Midway through that
After the masquerade the next thing to do of course was the room parties. The big room on the end had lots of yummy snacks, though we were a little disturbed to see several posters for "L Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future." I've never been quite sure what to think of them. How closely is the publishing group in charge of that related to the Scientologists? We wandered through a couple parties, saw ConGirl again, and the cute girl from last year, and a girl who said she recognized me from BayCon and who looked sorta familiar. After we'd gone through all the interesting room parties at least once we headed downstairs again to check out the Pirate Party. It was origianally supposed to be at 8, then got rescheduled for 8:30, then for 10. So we got there about 10 and they'd actually opened the room up, but there wasn't a whole lot going on yet. There was some music playing, and some tables set up with various gambling games (using plastic pirate doubloons to play with of course.) ConGirl ran into us again there, so we sat down with her for awhile to talk. While we were sitting there i saw someone walk by out in the hallway who i thought looked familiar, so i ran out and found