Steve and a group of his friends have gone to a Science Fiction convention called CONvergence for the last 4 years. Steve has always had great stories about the fun they have but I’ve never gone. Steve’s wife, Linzy, was going to go this weekend but just had back surgery so couldn’t go. Since they had already bought her ticket and couldn’t use it Steve invited me along. The con went all weekend but I just went Saturday.
For those of you not in the know (like me) there’s tons of stuff going on at conventions like this. There are panels where people talk about stuff related to SciFi or Fantasy or Comics or whatever. Movies, both live action and anime, were being shown all weekend. They had a huge costume contest which we didn’t go to because it is always so crowded. But as I understand it the costumes and groups of costumes are quite impressive. After the costume contest, which is called the Masquerade, they had a dance, aptly title the Masquerade Ball.
Every year groups sponsor themed party rooms which people pretty much walk in and out of all night. The top floor of the hotel (the Bloomington Sheraton on 100 and 494) had a bunch of rooms reserved for gaming of different sorts. And tons of people dress up in costumes and are just walking around like everyone else.
I got off of 100 and gave Steve a call letting him know that I’d soon be there. Maybe 10 or 15 minutes later I was finally walking into the lobby just as Steve dialed my number. The Sheraton has a big parking lot and every single spot was taken. I had to park across the street in a restaurant’s big, empty parking lot.
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