ThirtyCon

First, I can’t believe my Dear Husband has beaten me to blogging about ThirtyCon.

In fairness, I wanted to get the photos ready to be posted along with this, hence the delay. (I’m re-touching some of the photos to get rid of digital camera noise, blurring, focus issues, etc.) To frame up the weekend, here’s some quick statistics:

• Sleep total (over 3 nights) by me: ~20 hours by best estimate
• Number of times Time’s Up: Title Recall hit the table: 6
• Crayon games played: 2
• Power Grid: 2 (including new China map!)
• Agricola: 4 (and the birthday girl avoided every single one!)
• Bridge: 4-5 boards
• Calories burned dancing: At least enough to not only balance out having had several slices of cake but also to cause me to lose a pound for having done so!
• Unique visitors (does not include us, does not include instances where people left and came back): 16
• Knights in Shiny Armor: many, and you know who you are.
• Songs played in Rock band: at least 30…and that doesn’t count the kids playing on Sunday

Overall, ThirtyCon was a raging success. B* and his cousin surprised me with a cake themed after the game Portal. (It was not a lie. It was delicious and moist.) We had loads of fun gaming and dancing on Friday night. B* cooked breakfast for us on Saturday, and more gaming commenced shortly thereafter. We flavor tripped. Pears taste DELICIOUS when flavor tripping. So do limes. You don’t realize that limes have a unique flavor until you remove the sour. Dinner at the Japanese place was awesome, and I teared up trying to give my speech. (The message survived, but the details had to be excluded lest I bawl like a wee babe.) Then, there was more gaming…much laughter. I think everyone teared up at some point from the laughter during Time’s Up. We have all new sign language now for dial M for murder, Alice…and a bunch of others that are slipping my mind right now.

Overall, I had so much fun. I got to spend a weekend being spoiled rotten, with my favorite people around me, doing the things I love to do, and that has to be the best way to spend a birthday. It just has to be. Today, with work and homework and such, is just an utter disappointment by comparison…not to mention that I’m exhausted.

Pictures are up in the Gallery for your viewing pleasure. No captions yet, but most of them are self-explanatory.