"The Long Goodbye and Road Home"

Another time-zone-lag morning wakeup, followed by con hotel breakfast. It was good, both the pancakes and coffee hit the spot. All in all, my experience with Crowne Plaza Hotel was quite good, from getting there, to navigation, to the staff, to the room itself.

After that, we buzzed around for a while waiting for the Tokusatsu Room to open up, chatting with various people. We got to watch a bit of the equipment takedown once things opened up, and were able to bring the car up against the loading dock so we could shove Baragon into the hatchback without getting the suit wet.

I...all but missed the awards ceremony because we had to leave early in order to get home in a reasonable amount of time. I did catch up with the awards ceremony for long enough to be announced as Best in Show for the Novice division, and took home a 3D-Printed "Foamie" award for my efforts. I did one last lap of things and said my goodbyes, then me and Rachel piled back into the Prius with our stuff and headed back east along the interstate towards home.

Instead of doing the car swap and leaving me to unload everything at my apartment, my folks brought my car down and we unloaded everything as a group at my apartment. I got Red Midget back, they got Pearl back, and everyone was happy.

G-Fest was a wonderful experience, from start to finish. I'll be back next year, hopefully with a new monster suit, more friends, a rented van for comfortable highway cruising, and possibly even some crafty crafts in tow.

Well, it's back to the Brown Palace tomorrow at 8AM sharp. Until next time, this is Tankaa Kumawani, signing off.