It's been a busy run! Let's rewind the week a bit though - it's been a bit of a con crunch. Wigs were hastily styled at the weekend and the Harkonen was being assembled as late as Wednesday owing to waiting for parts to dry and set.
Thursday we were back at the roller skating, this time with my niece. It was a good laugh and a nice run into the weekend. I had my nephew arrive Friday and we did a last fit check before playing board games and watching Spirited Away.
Then came the con! Was it worth the hours of sewing? Fighting with the jigsaw puzzle of the Harkonen? The metres and metres and metres of red fabric?
Absolutely! We had an absolute blast - everyone was so nice, we had loads of folk asking us to pose for photos and it was just a generally amazing day. My nephew was absolutely overwhelmed by everything - the cosplay, all the stuff, the talks and the judging and by the end he was absolutely beat. Delighted, but beat!
Highlights include sharing cookies with the Mario crew, making friends with a very over excited Gambit and helping a young girl on the verge of a meltdown. We spotted her behind us as we waited on the competition results curled up with her fingers in her ears and offered her a cookie. She declined the cookie and had a fan girl moment on our characters so we did some photos and had her pose with my Harkonen (she was 5 foot if she was lucky, it was hilarious). And that seemed to help her immensely.
There are official photos yet to come (the photographer was absolutely superb and took time with everyone to get great photos), so I'm going to wait for those before the costumes go on Instagram!
Then today was a day for the dogs. It was P in the Park (insert fan girl screaming). We've missed this the last few years, so I was glad to catch it today.
My niece had arrived Saturday evening with Wee Ben and my brother had coordinated coming along too, so we were very excited for a fur-cousins meet up again. The weather promised to be fair so we all headed to Unleashed dog parks for abfun day.
It wasn't all just dog shows, there was demos (the super spaniels were absolutely brilliant), talks and have a go games for the dogs. The dock diving was fun to watch but none of our dogs would be game, so we didn't bother with it.
Missy placed first in the fancy dress - I whole heartedly approve of having a kid choose the winning dogs, there's absolutely no bias except that the dog is friendly and cute. The wee lad was utterly smitten with Missy's Viking costume and I could tell he was desperate to figure out how the helmet stayed on (ribbons my dear, nearly wrapped ribbons).
Of course all of them deserve first place in my opinion, hence the photo at the top. That's absolutely going to be getting printed and put on the wall.
Well, the human niece and nephew are off home and we have Maisie, my favourite furry niece for the night whilst my brother is at a gig. Maisie is asleep on the sofa and Missy is passed out beside her, so it's really no bother at all!
Until next week!
