The Con itself

Stepping into a hall lit purely by fluorescent lights rebounding off of white and unpainted steel girders, before me are lines of ready-waiting geeks ready for a full day of gaming. And buying.
"This is going to turn into an orgy of spending before the week is out," Chris says.
"I hear you. My money's already low and this won't help." I say as I wait for the guard to open the barrier to turn us loose inside. Some of the patrons are dressed in gear representing their favourite game, comic or TV character - cosplaying, it's called - and some look good, and some don't. Mostly, they look good, because great efforts have been put into these costumes, and the vast majority of the costumed are good looking girls wearing very little. The ones who look not so good would be the overweight boys in tight, leather pants. Yes, it did burn my corneas.
Walking along the purplegrey carpet, I examine stall after stall after stall of nerd gear - magic cards, D&D miniatures, warhammer, warmachine, comics, star wars, star trek, anime, etc. etc. etc. - stretching far as the eye can behold. All at cheaper Con prices. To the fore and the left are giant screens, playing 24-hour Anime screenings, and screenings of the latest games and even some Anime karaoke. These areas are also used for lectures and seminars - two of which I went to, The Mistakes Most Writers Make, and Hot Tips for Fiction Writers. However, beyond all this, lies the land of games. A vast space of just tables and chairs, stretching to the far corners of the conference hall, five times the size of the stalls area. This is where the gaming takes place, some tables for trading card games, some for board games, but the most tables of all are reserved for the RPG - role playing game - players. Vast amounts of tables and chairs reserved purely for us to park our asses on and play in 4 hour gaming sessions to experience the new 4th Ed of D&D. With miniatures. We had 4 such gaming sessions planned, and not one of the DMs we had - not ONE - was not overweight. I mean these guys were BIG. Alex turned to me at one point and said, "This Con has seriously reevaluated my definition of fat." which, I had to say, was true. Most of the men were either scrawny and pimple-faced or fat. But, most of the girls were amazingly good-looking. Or fat. It was truly an eye-opener.
Besides from spending hundreds of dollars on graphic novels and useless junk, wasting away hours at RPG tables and gawking at CosPlayers, we also ate. And slept. Though, very little of the latter for we had to rise early after going to bed late as our buffet breakfast closed at 10, and we wanted to be in at the Con by 9. Sighs all round. Mostly, we ate Mi Goreng. For those of you unfamiliar with Mi Goreng, of which I am sure there are very few, Mi Goreng is the Asian equivalent of Maggi 2 minute noodles. But with better spices and more of it. We lived on two bowls of this more or less every dinner for an entire week. I more or less don't want to see any ever again.
All in all the Con was good fun and we were bummed when it ended. But we're looking forward to next year when we will all Cosplay...odds are Batman villains or something...I get to be the Joker...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!