*on a side note, there were actually some cute guys there. I’d say you still had some of the nerdy type here, but there were about 30% nice looking guys. And about 10% of them where white and had asian dates with them.

The back screen there is for Guitar Hero: World Tour. And there really were people playing it allll night.

Aaaand there were gambling tables. Craps (is that how to spell it?), poker, and blackjack. I mostly played blackjack. Our dealer was way tired and couldn’t add and made tons of mistakes haha. With the chips, you can turn them in at the end of the night for raffle tickets for the raffle at the end. That’s my dealer at the bottom of the picture. You can see the karaoke at the back, and dancing in the pit…you can’t see the pit.

During the service awards (5, 10 and 15 year), this guy supposedly passed on the war glaives in his guild of co-workers, and so they got him a real life replica.

The food was pretty good though, buffet style. Starting from 9 o’clock, potato salad, pasta salad, mashed potato, veggie medley, mac and cheese with bacon and crunchy stuff, lasagna, chicken. The green salad and beef is missing. It was yummie.

And coffee/tea/hot chocolate afterwards. With real pots of honey! I got this lemon tea and squeezed real lemon. Yummiiiiiieeeee. Cute cup too.

My friend and I.

Outside the hotel, a huge Mickey with a santa hat on! Thanks for letting me tag along, C!

The front of the Anaheim Convention Center. BlizzCon wooo. If you look closely you can see my hunter’s mark on the bottom left corner. We were 20 minutes early, but parking made us late. There was a huge line and we had to circle in a line all the way around and up top to parking spaces that weren’t really parking spaces, but everyone parked there anyway.

Some of the banners up top.

We watched Fnatic vs. Made in Taiwan. I was partial to Made in Taiwan because…well…gotta represent! But Fnatic had an asian girl on their team…I felt like how I do at an Angels vs. Yankees game. Taiwan lost though…it’s okay! I’m sure they were happy to be here. They all had team jackets with “Taiwan” in the noticeable public-relations-tourism-graphic font they like to use.

Frostmourne, yours for $400 bucks. The price is going to be raised near the holidays too. Arena winners and the costume contest winners receive one of these. Nihilum won the arena tournament…they are a EU team. I wonder how they are going to get this 16 pound ish sword onto the plane…

Got a croissant during lunch so I could snack on it later in the afternoon. When I think or see a croissant, I think of Burgle and Arloma. Cwaaasooooon.

Mograine and Whiteman. Rise, my Champion!

Kerrigan. She almost makes zerg hot. But they are still gross.

I didn’t see these get used very much. I did take a picture with it but I don’t have it on me yet.

Ooing and awwing.

mMmMmm…..glowy monitors…..not many people on beta since many people were on wotlk beta already for months.

People playing the World of Warcraft card game. I have a deck. Played it about four times. The instructions are confusing.

This was the mini-game created by J!nx. You choose a class and you get as many balls and special balls according to your class, and you throw them, either a head shot or in the chest. The interesting part are the special balls. If you get them in, they are either a crit, or it means it’s a greater heal (for priests) and you subtract 2 balls from your opponent…or other specials that make sense for the class. You compete with the team next to you and you move on for prizes. I got in 1 out of 10…it is harder than it looks.

Arts.

This guy was dressed up as a pimp orc and walked around with a swagger and a cane. I only caught the back of him <: (.

Drool.

Slurp.

New for Diablo 3.

She reminds me of Padme

There is the throne and people could wait in line to pose up there with the helm and the frostmourne. I never got around to waiting for this.

Yes, that is what it looks like.

Scary….

Another picture of a mass of people.

The Diablo 3 section. Wouldn’t it be cool if we could play a 40 man raid like this? All together in one room?

The screens made it really nice to just sit down and watch. You didn’t have to worry about getting a good seat up front because the video camera was a lot better than real life.

Some of the art up there. All professional looking!

I like to see how many people are behind me. There were tons of people there. It was hard to get around the first few hours.

Blizzard got three huge rooms this time, compared to the two last year. That’s the walkway to the middle room.

Honestly, this was the best costume I saw and she didn’t win. That undead female is *dead* on! (teehee…). Seriously, the makeup was amazing and she acts like an undead on the stage. The hair is perfect and the outfit is very accurate. She should have totally won. The person that won was a draenei that sat on top of a huge turtle that moved. Yes, it’s amazing that it’s huge and it moves…but this undead female should have gotten at least some credit in the runner ups. I mean, look at those eyes!

I wore a hunter’s mark over my head today and I actually spent a lot of time on it. I’ve never used wire before and I kind of hurt my hands. No pictures of that yet either…but lots of people wanted pictures of me! Well, maybe just 4 or 5, but I heard a lot of comments as I passed by, or people passed me. Like…

“….she’s got a hunter’s mark on her!”
“careful! a hunter has targeted you!”
“….omg that is so awesome”
“omg hunter’s mark!”
“hahha that’s so funny!”
“awwwwwwwWwww!”

Stuff like that ^_^. Makes me happy inside.

I also got a nice complement on my shirt I made. Pictures of that later too. I just had to update.

Also, videos of the dance contest!

Not only were our Angels (because the stadium announcer always says they are mine, so they are mine…ours) playing against the Mariners (Ichiro!) but Francisco Rodriguez was set on breaking the record for most saves in a season. Wooo.

Sorry about the sun. I told him to go away for a bit but he just wouldn’t listen.

A little better? There weren’t that many people in the beginning. Still about 10 minutes to go.

Ichiro throwing the ball.

Yeah, there was a security guard there between innings. Why? Does he think people are going to rush over to pants Ichiro? I wonder what he would say anyway “I am happy to have this opportunity. Not many baseball players get pants-ed. The stars have aligned. It is very special.” That’s so Ichiro.

Sigh…what am I doing here in this Angels stadium again? Just make it go away…

The peanut gallery. Actually they cheered for the Angels quite loudly. And then yelled Ichiro’s name a couple times. “Seeeeeeee no, Ichiro!!”

He was always doing something. Stretching, rolling out his ankles, squatting…

And the crowd went wild when he ran out of the bullpen. Standing up, waving arms. Every time he didn’t get a strike, the crowd went “aww…..” and when he did “yeeeeeeah!! Frankie!!”.

Heh….The only substantial video I have was when he pitched against Ichiro and he got a hit. Whoops.