First day visiting Ronni!
Eating at Bob Evans.
With Ronni, 9/2004
Ivy at Bob Evans
Cute Ronni
Ronni’s son Aidan
Playing with bubbles.
Aidan doing bubbles with his mom
Aidan enjoying bubbles
Going to visit Ronni!
Getting on a Greyhound bus to go to Ohio to visit Ronni!
Breakfast before bus trip!
Ready for the bus
Phoenix and Las Vegas with Fred – Day 6
At the buffet
Hoover Dam
A design in the floor
Down in the dam
Standing on the Capricorn spot
Standing on the Taurus spot
Hoover Dam
Winner!
Bellagio
Bellagio
Bellagio
Bellagio
Bellagio
Phoenix and Las Vegas with Fred – Day 5
Next day: Pool again. Me in a different suit, with a different hairdo, writing the same book.
Writing in the sun
Fred by a dragon
Hanging out on the bed
We ate at a place called The Noodle Kitchen. I guess Fred is quite happy about it!
Noodle face
Enjoying noodles
Nice garden
Gondola ride
Fountain
Fountain
Karaoke in vegas
Phoenix and Las Vegas with Fred – Day 4
We spent the next morning by the pool. This is me before we found a place to sit, in my sundress and hat.
Swimmer outfit
In the shade
Fred sunbathing
Ivy by the pool
Writing in the sun
Fred swimming
Ivy bathing suit
The view from our hotel room was wonderful.
The view
After the pool and showers, we spent the evening at the Star Trek Experience thing–first we ate in the themed restaurant, Quark’s. (I had a hamborger. With no borg.)
At Quark’s
Photo with Voyager crew
No one is sitting with me
Someone is sitting with me
Fred wins in Vegas, 7/2004
DDR
Sherbet
Phoenix and Las Vegas with Fred – Day 3
The Iron Skillet Restaurant (another “historic Fred place”), where Fred took me for lunch on our way driving to Las Vegas!
Fred at Iron Skillet
This is me in the hotel room at our Vegas hotel, the Mirage. Don’t I look like I’m trying to be a movie star or something? I was just wearing that cape thing because I was freezing.
Vegas Superstar
After seeing Penn & Teller that night, Fred crashed pretty hard. I thought it was funny so I snapped it.
Fred is out cold
Phoenix and Las Vegas with Fred – Day 2
We decided to go to Sedona on my second day in Phoenix. Halfway there we stopped at this “historical Fred place”: The Coffee Pot Restaurant, where they have omelets you can order by the number!
Historical Fred Place: Coffee Pot
Coffee at Coffee Pot
Now just a bunch of pictures of me walking around in the desert trail in Sedona:
Sedona desert trail
Sedona desert trail
Sedona desert trail
Sedona desert trail
Sedona desert trail
Sedona desert trail
Sedona desert trail
Sedona desert trail
Sedona desert trail
Sedona desert trail
Sedona desert trail
Phoenix and Las Vegas with Fred – Day 1
Fred in Phoenix
Ivy in Phoenix
Ivy in Fred’s house!
Cake batter
Last day at JACON
We didn’t return to the convention with costumes on the last day, but we did get to have some fun walking around with Jeaux’s birthday present: I made him an outfit for his GIR plush. 🙂
Jeaux with GIR
Fountain with GIR
Costume Day at JACON!
Jeaux and I went to JACON as Sae Sawanoguchi and Takeo Takakura from the anime Maho Tsukai TAI!. My first time doing a lot of sewing for a costume and I definitely hate it. We entered the costume contest but didn’t win anything (and didn’t expect to). Here are our costumes. A bunch of the other ones we saw at the con can be seen at the photo album for this convention.
Sae & Takeo
Takeo
Sae & Takeo
Sae Eye Belt
Sae with Jeff
Us in the Costume Contest
We also went to a nerdy music performance after we got out of our costumes and enjoyed the band playing video game stuff. I even danced.
Tetris Music
Dance DDR