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Hello everyone!!
Well. Fanime.
I can easily say that it was one of the best times of my life. Ever. Two days devoted to some of the things I love most-- friends, anime & cosplay. And... I finally got to meet someone I've been waiting to see for a few months now. 
Sooo... Zoey picked Athena & me up around 9:00 AM, and we got to the San Jose Hilton around... Oh, iono... 9:45? 10? W/e. We went up to Chloe's room to get into our costumes & make-up. It was especially exciting for us three cosplayers to enter the room, b/c we were the last ppl to arrive, and everyone was there, excited and everything. Except for Jacob, who came around 3 PM. >.> I helped Zoey with her costume and makeup after putting on my costume & stuff, but by the time we came out of the bathroom (half and hour later o_o), half of the ppl were gone getting their pre-registration badges.
Ah, our cosplays! Here's a list in alphabetical order::
Athena -> Kin Tsuchi: Sound nin who gets sacrificed later... there were two other Kin's at the con too, to our surprise
Chloe -> Deidara: Akatsuki member who 'likes art'... and has mouths on her hands
Erica -> Anko Mitarashi: jounin who's hyper (thus cute) & cool
Erin -> Sakura Haruno: pink-haired sub-main-character-thing
Jacob -> Kisame: Akatsuki shark duuuuude!!!! He was the only one at the con! Samehada pwns.
Jennifer/me -> Hinata Hyuga: shy genin who likes to poke fingers together. X3 (...>>finger-trap...)
Lucas -> Naruto Uzumaki: main character, duh..... NeOn OrAnGe!!!!!
Marian -> Gekkou Hayate/Genma: guy who can cough up a lung XD/replacement after GH dies
Zoey -> Itachi Uchiha: source of hotness, Akatsuki dude, Kisame's wife partner
Yeah, all Naruto cosplay. Woot.
Then we went downstairs for getting our pre-reg badges, but we got really distracted by (1) photographers and (2) other cosplayers.
BTW, the con took place in the Civic Auditorium & the connecting Hilton & Mariott hotel towers (which look(s?) like an airport).
After about half an hour, we finally got our spiffy badges that are laminated and all cool like that, and yah. Then we met up with everyone else, went to the dealer's room and all these other places. To my surprise, I didn't buy anything on Saturday. Yay for saving $!! ^^
Oh yeah, we went to the AMV contest, which was really cool. There was a category for Action, Free-style-whatever, Drama & Comedy. The Action ones were all kinda freaky, the Free-style was good, the Drama was good, the Comedy was hilarious. <3 Montage. And the Princess Tutu was really good, I think it should've won Best of Show. Oh, and the Fruits Basket one was good!! ^-^
For lunch, Chloe's parents rented a CONFERENCE ROOM on the SIXTEENTH FLOOR and we had a party for Chloe's birthday, which was like, two months ago. It was really fun.
The day was so jam-packed with cosplay goodness and fun, but seeing as most of you readers aren't actually reading this, I'll just move forward and blur the afternoon. We went around the con, buying stuff, visiting video screenings, going to the Artist Alley & Dealer's Room, visiting the Gaming room to drool at the cool DDR ppl, playing volleyball Pikachu with 20 other ppl and sucking at it, screaming our heads off and doing all that cosplay stuff. It was sooo funn.......
We went to Original Joe's for dinner, where Athena, Chloe, Erica & me shared two huge plates of pasta, yay!
“Be a man.... You must be swift as a coursing river... Be a man... You must be.... uh... swift as a great, typhoon.... Be a man... You must be... great as a ragggiiing fire, -be a man...- (dude, it's a remix), mysterious as the dark side of, the MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Be a man!)”
XD
Then we went to the rave, which was really cool.
YESH, it was ALL AGES. Nobody was selling ECSTACY or any of that crap. Geez.
Although there were a LOT of ppl freak-dancing and making out.... O_O;;
And the music was really loud & pounding, and there were these really cool break-dancers, and everyone had glowsticks, and a lot of said ppl knew how to USE them correctly and stuff, and it was so cool.
Except for the fact that we were younger than everyone else by about, ohh, I dunno... Five years? So it was kinda out of place. We left an hour later, at midnight.
Then we were headed toward the AMV room downstairs to watch the premiere of “True Naruto Style: The Movie”, which was awesome. Oh, I got to hug the two amazing producers, Nick-something & the-other-guy!! Anyways, as we were walking over to the stairs through the
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hall-building-thing, I saw this guy, and I dunno, something seemed kind of off about him, as if he was someone I knew. He was staring at me and finally waved his hand in front of my face, and said, “...Yunri?” And THEN I recognized him..... HE WAS HEAT-CHAN!!!!!!! YES, I FINALLY GOT TO MEET HIM!!!!!!!!!! *ecstatic* And then I hugged him, and introduced him to my friends (or whoever was present, since some of the ppl were gone), and that was cool, since I've told them about Heat before. ^-^
Hey, some of you don't even know what I'm talking about.
Heat's this guy I met on Cosplay.Com a few months ago, and we've talked ever since. Yah. Too lazy to elaborate, on with the story.
Anyways, we talked... and stuff... and it was cool... And I feel bad for not recognizing him like, *snaps*, that, but he did seem familiar! ^-^ Heat's voice was deeper than I expected, but that's because he talks to me so comfortably as if we're of the same age (he's 16), so I guess that's how I think of him. *glomp*
Wow, I'm already halfway through a second page, and I'm not even through the first day.
So anyways, I was tired and everything, and since we were to meet again on Sunday for the Naruto gathering (where I wouldn't be so tired), we said good night (or whatever we said, can't remember) and went our ways.
True Naruto Style was reallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly funny. OMG. Poor Hinata. “I... I actually like... cold... toilet seats... They're so... cold... Yes.... I...I...I LOVE cold toilet seats! AhhhhhHHHHHHH *explodes*” “S***. She just exploded.”
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And, and Gaara!!!!! With “Dancing Queen”!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!! *dies* That was SOOOOO adorable. GREAT way to end the movie.
Unfortunately, we missed the first half, so we'll have to see it on youtube some other time. Ah well, we got to see it at its premiere, ne?
We went to sleep at 1 AM. Our room was high class & everything, but hey, what do you expect? It's Hilton.
Shall I go on about Sunday? Or shall I give mercy?
....Nah.
SUNDAY.
I woke up at 6. Fell asleep. Woke up at 6:51. Fell asleep. Woke up at 7:03. Saw Zoey up. Fell asleep. Woke up at 7:06. Fell asleep. Woke up at 7:56. Fell- *gets smacked* Okay okay, I wasn't actually falling asleep, just drifting into subconsciousness. Then I got up, sat back down (warm bed... ^^), etc. After a while, Athena woke up too, and we talked, etc. Zoey had a stomachache because she did, but after having a bit of medicine, she was better for the day, thank goodness. I took a shower later on, and we went to have breakfast in the same room as Chloe's party. Then, again, we drifted around for some more cosplay goodness, except this time, we remembered to bring the “Sasuke Understudy”, which served as a memorial-thing for Justine-kun, who couldn't come b/c she was on tour in Washington. Where Heat's from. >.>
So I got all these pics of cosplayers holding up the sign. Check my gallery.
Yeah, bought a panda shirt (Athena did too, we're matching ^^), bought a SASUKE PLUSHIE, YO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG OMG OGM OMG OMGOMG
I slept with him last night.
XD
I also got this little chibi Sasuke keychain for $2 (the only thing that was nicely priced >.>), and I'm gonna put it on my backpackkkkkkkkkk................
Okay, moving on to the Naruto Gathering, which just may have been the best part of the con. I dunno. It was from 2-4:30 (?) in front of the fountains, and I got to see Heat again! Yayy. There were a LOT of cosplayers there. Oh yeah, Lucas didn't cosplay on Sunday, because he thinks he's too good for cosplay. GRR.
So this was our first gathering, and it was really fun. Basically, ppl got called up in groups (ie dead ppl, Team 9, Itachi's, etc.) and posed for a few minutes while everyone else surrounded them in an arc and took photos. bart_boy was in charge, and I recognized him, since I met him at JTAF *and* talked to him on myspace. ^-^ He's a Hinataaa fanboy.... <3 lol
There were three-or-so Hinata's, including a time-jump one, whom I took a pic with on Saturday. And there were surprisingly a lot of ppl from the Sound team, so Athena wasn't alone. ^-^ There were two other Kin's (though she was, in all honesty, the most accurate & best by FAR), and two Zosu's (one had a boombox!), and one other-teammate-guy. Sakura & Naruto were popular as always, and there were even two kyuubi! Which was awesome. Marian was the only Gekkou Hayate (she was Genma Saturday, GH Sunday), and Chloe was the only Dei. There were a few Itachi's, but Zoey had a plushie, so HA, she wins! I think there was another Anko or two. Jacob was the only Kisame, and everyone just absolutely LOVED him. He had SOOOOOOOO many fangirls. XD
And he had a reallllllllllllllly good Samehada to boot. 
So first we did a Leaf photoshoot, which was really big & fun. Then there were the other villages, and in the process, the Shino (there was only one) asked for a Team 8 pic, since there happened to be a Kurenai, Kiba & Hinata aka me drifting near him. In the process, I lost Athena's purse and my camera. O_O
But both items were found ten minutes later, in Erin & Zoey's mom's possession, to our frantic relief.
I feel bad now, Heat kept on coming over so that we could have our pic taken together, but I kept on telling him to wait and being all mean because I was looking for my stuff. So if you're reading this, Heat-chan, your sensei's sorry. 
Then the gathering was moved away from the fountains and across the road, to a park, which was really cool. As we were walking, “What is Love” played on the Zosu's boombox, and Erica, Heat and I were singing... lol When we got there, a lot of Naruto music was playing and everyone was singing, and it was sooo fun. The Zosu climbed onto this tall tree, and Heat soon joined him! I have a lot of pics of that... ^-^ It was soo cool.
Then we had character shoots, which was fun. In the Sasuke one, Erin led an “Emo! Emo!” chant. T^T I was almost crying. And then they had this pansy!Sasuke shot, which was really funny horrible.... OHH and an Orochimaru came in and started MAKING OUT with one of the Sasuke's!!!!! XD Of course, the two ppl knew each other. I really really hope.
Then, bart_boy was like, “Okay guys, now, for my personal favorite...” and I knew it was Hinata. >.> lol And we got to do all these different poses, like normal, shy (yah, big diff), battle, etc. I did Byakugan for the last, but I didn't have light-colored contacts... *sniffle* Oh well, nobody else did, so it's not like I was left out. lol
My batteries died right after the Kiba shots. -_______- Oh well, at least I got Heat! Yayy...
During the Team 8 shot, I got to hug and bury my face into this big Akamaru cosplay, which was really really soffffffffftttttttttttttt......
Soon after, Heat had to leave, so Athena got a pic of me hugging Kiba, and it was really cool. I guess I'll probably not be seeing him for another year. *sighs* Oh well, we always have Cosplay.Com PM! ^-^
Oh, and Heat's real name is Josh.
During the Legendary Three shot, the Tsunade also made out with the Jiriaya, if I remember correctly. And an Anko flashed the pervert shoot AND jounin shoot. XD
The Rock Lee shot was hilarious, because all the Lee's were very dramatic and flamboyant. There was even a drunken Lee who turned into a Gai after taking someone's jounin vest.
The very last shot was chosen by Marian, who came in front and screamed, “KISA-ITA!!!” In this shot, all the Itachi's were tugging on Jacob, and it was really really funny. Poor Zoey, she has to share her sharkie.... lol
Like I said, one of the best times of my life.
I'd elaborate, but I'm too tired. I'll tell more at school... or you can email me. =D
Here's a link to my Fanime gallery for the photos I took, please do look. It took me a really long time to take, compile & upload. Thanks!
>>http://images.cosplay.com/gallery.php?cat=42272&member=41876<<
So yeah. I'm gonna go hug my Sasuke now. Ja~!
<3 Jennyy [yunri] | 
