We flew out at 10 something in the morning to the Minneapolis Airport.



Watching Avatar between plane rides on Tobi



We got to Toronto late in the evening and got to the Doubletree hotel off the shuttle from the airport and had a brief but exhilerating conversation with Anthony, the super french man. 
I exchanged my money for canadian currency, which is very shiny and pretty and makes more sense then ours as it has hockey players and elks and shit on it. They also have 2 dollar coins, which are very handy.
We got complimentary check in cookies and went upstairs to the seventh floor where our room 7255 was waiting. It's a very cramped room, not good for cosplay, but we exploded our shit into it and relaxed while I painted and assembled my sword. 

The next day meant some fun in the form of the science museum and Beguiling, the comic book store.

The Hotel itself though is so far removed from downtown though, it requires a long bus trip and some careful running about in the subways to get anywhere. It can take 45 minutes to an hour to get to the place you want sometimes. Toronto has onw of the biggest transit systems in the world though, buses normally come every 10 minutes and you can get transfers that work for the subway and streetcars. It's nice.



Outside of the Toronto Science Center. Everything has a french translation.



The building is really big.



I don't know what this is, but I took a picture of it.



Shinanigans. The anatomy section was by far my fave, for obvious reasons. (Drawing, you idiots) 

It's interesting, because when they talk about baby making science, the mention condoms and prevention. Try and find that in America.




Baby Skellington. 



They had comparison skeletons to people who lived in other countries. 



An elephant heart. The Jar is thicker then my torso.



My love for taking pictures of words. It says liquid life. 



I rocked that tube.



Afterwords we rolled on downtown. 



MTV.

Downtown is big. And full of people. I think the most interesting one I saw was the guy dressed up in a Santa outfit panhandling with a sign that said "The Sleigh Broke Down"



We ate lunch at a hot dog stand from a foreign lady. The pigeons there are really tame and are rats for food. I sat and fed them occasionally. 



Everything has grafitti on it, walls, cars... babies...



The side wall of The Beguiling



I LIKE. The store was great, it had the air of supremacy all comic book stores have, but they were cool, they carried manga, and on the wall they had the beautiful poster I'd wanted to buy since Jhonen spat it out of his mind womb, the faces of Johnny one, the one he only had at comic con, and I got it. I also got the BAC, everything can be beaten, Bohda Te, and I Feel Sick 2. IFS2 made me so happy... holy shit. I got the first one maybe four years ago and never really bothered to get the second, Johnny makes my life so happy...

It brought up some points I wish people understood in me, but the fact Jhonen wrote it makes me an emo bitch tard. Neh? I relate to JTHM more then I should sometimes...

I want my T-shirt back...



First Icecream truck I've ever seen. No really. We don't have a SINGLE ONE.



Damn right



I like the Subway.



Yeah. That's right.



So it was Thursday night and people were starting to seap into the Doubletree, and not just the regular people... those special folk... you know what I mean. I snapped into costume and made camp in the lobby. I was wonderwice exhibiting Bleach to the people. I talked to quite a few and made friends. Here's Zuko, chilling on floppy the otakusaurus.

It's pretty awesome that when you have a random japanese flag, japanese buisnessman will come up to you and say random english words, to which you high five them and let them on their merry way.



First group I saw Thursday night. Pretty good minus the Mello's big friggen hooters.



Ouran. 



Sailor Moon, the one in front, yeah, the one in the white. Look familiar? Yep, that would be Kayla, chilling. 

We talked for a bit, I told her of the great sucess of Bleach we had at AD and of the new hotel room, she says she'll register earlier and might be a potential panelist. A Grimmjow. Oh the mirth.

They already had a forming line to get your badges for North, so I got in and got my badge. I was amazed, thursday night badge line up...

I also met up with a great Nell that night, very fun, we walked around the hotel talking and exchanging differences between Canada and America. She's been going to North for awhile now.

We also met up with these nice guys who love bleach and do some mixed cosplay. Around midnight or so, I went to bed.

I got up early, changed and went to the congress center across the street to see what was happening, my friends from last night were waiting for the reg line to open... the line opens at One, this was around Nine...

I chilled with them, having nothing better to do, we played Old Maid and Poker, and I watched the tide of cosplayers come in.
 


They walked out of a van and I peed. Everywhere, it was great. The Zuko is made of rainbows and I hugged him a good three times. He's perfect.



After scanning the crowd, I found these two, and approached them with Wonderwice like caution. To which the Luppi replied "HOLY SHIT UR ADORABLE"

I think we're pretty cool. We sat for awhile, watching the crowd, mind you this con was mostly outdoors and the line for the reg wraps around the building, like AD times 5. Every 10 seconds we got asked for pictures. It was amazing.



Bored, I approached an Urahara...



And then this happened. It looks real because he thought I was really going to steal his hat and not give it back...



NOOOOOOO....

Getting Hungry, Luppi, Orihime, Wonderwice, and Szayel (ryan) walked over to the Swiss Chalet to get some lunch. It turned into quite the event. Me and Luppi got these awesome chicken sandwhiches. Apparently, in canada, you eat mashed potato's with a fork...

I was left out of the loop somewhere.

We came back to get in line for the dealers room.



I thought this was clever.





I was waiting in line when this amazing figure came walking past, he saw me and we had the biggest retard moment and ran to each other, rainbows and sparkles everywhere...



He picked me up and twirled me, and it was amazing.

So we got into the marquis that's inside, which is basically, the REAL line for the dealers room, and we sat there talking and waiting to be let in, being Anime North, they always let you in twenty minutes late. Right when they were about to let us in, my brother looks down to discover his badge is missing and starts flipping out. I can't really do anything, so I tell him to go see con ops and get it sorted out. So I got in, big fuck room full of dreams and...

Some asshole security guy tells me I need my weapon checked.

This happened once already, more by suggestion, but I guy came up to me telling me I should and I informed him it didn't stick out any more then my shoulders did, was made of foam core and duct tape, and was always kept to my back unless sitting. So they were cool with that and sent me on my way, so when this fucker came up, I explained to him how I talked to another Con op guy and I had sorted it out.

Apparently, I still needed it checked and I had to leave the dealers room.

Piss.

So I leave the dealers room and go to the long fuck marquis for weapons check. They give me a clip board and tell me to look over the rules and regs. It wouldn't have been so annoying if some fat fuck in a security outfit came and bitched at how I "Treated his workers bad, and if I was going to keep an attitude, I could go home"

I didn't swear, I didn't yell, I was ANNOYED, but I didn't fucking shit a brick at him...

I was PISSED. Standing in line while all the fun was in the dealers room... I signed over everything viciously and gave the guy my clip board and got my picture taken at weapons check. The guy was very nice and apologized at how everyone was treating me bad though, so I didn't really feel like shanking anyone. I got away and got back into the dealers room maybe 15 minutes later.

Sadly. They didn't have shit. I mean ANYTHING. I walked around for two hours looking at bad yaoi, bootleg naruto plushies and shit ass copies of everything. NOTHING WAS THAT GREAT.

So I was about to kill someone again, until I turned around and saw a Grimmjow styling figure being all authoritative and crazy. I ran up, basically spit "INEEDTHISNOWPLEASE" and got the last one. 

I left the dealers room and trolled around the artist alley and ACTUALLY FOUND COOL THINGS. Holy shit. Bleach and Code Geass everywhere! Cute prints! Buttons! funtastic everything! I bought some stuff for Kohai and Kaira and then ran outside to go back to the doubletee across the street and set some things down.



I walked out, and who do I see but the Savage Bandito! For those of who who don't know, he's on the conventioneers occassionally and does shows similar to them. I got interviewed! Lots of dumb wonderwice jokes, I talked about manjina's to a camera, and I'll hopefully be on his show! :D

So things are going GREAT. I'm happy again, shits fine, I have things. And then this pops out.



I was so happy, I ran up to him when his back was turned and grated my face on him like a deer does to a tree, he turns around hugs me and I like cry words on him about he's the best Tesla I've ever seen, and how much I love Tesla, and how Tesla makes everyday worth living. Oh god, talking about it makes me grow this big erect penis.

He laughs (Holy shit, just like Tesla WOULD laugh) this nee nee nee chuckle thing and I make horrible noises, hug him and get his picture and run away screaming.

SO PRETTY...

I get back to the hotel room and put all my purchases down and go to make more purchases. Yeah. Basically. I went back and got stickers and shit for various cosplayers and I walk in, and this is chilling in line.



At this point, you can imagine me thinking about what god is going to do to me to pay for this wonderful day, how can it get any BETTER! For seriousness. Something shitty has to happen to pay for this wonderful instance.



Nope, pretty much not. I gave Tesla a grimmjow sticker, to which he says "OH FER MEE?" And I shit baked goods. He still does not understand the joy he brought me, he is santa, I am shitty the KID. The man just IS tesla though. I could go on and keep talking, but holy shit, I have more story.

I wandered outside when it got dark and ran into a nice Renji, Byakuya, and Rukia. We chilled with them, got some pretty night pictures and decided to go to Tim Hortons for bagels at like 10 at night.

It was super fun, we walked out later and a random urahara walks by.

Renji: I don't know what that Urahara said, but all I heard was titties

Wonderwice: Titties?

Hueco Mundo Aizen comes walking by. I gave him an Ulquiorra sticker btw. He's amazing, his cosplay was funny, he was super nice and adorable.

Wonderwice: AIZEN!!! WHAT ER TITTIES!

He and Renji explode into laughing and I just sit there face-in-a-crayon-box stupid. Enjoying my scene. I make my way back to the hotel later to sleep.



I saw them before they saw me, it was funny because I got really excited to take their picture, then they found out I was Wonderwice and flipped tits...



Saturday morning I got up, changed, and walked around the line surveying the crowd and people taking pictures as I walked. I saw Aaroniero in line, had to get in on it. He's no Spencer, but he can extend it and twirl it really long.



And you though she wouldn't come? What are you to say NOW? She was AWESOME. AND FRENCH. 



The Bleach shoot started around noonish. We trolled the front yeard big time. It wasn't very organized, it was basically, someone asks for all our pictures and for ten minutes people swarm, then I start a count down for us to get up, we do, then ten seconds late it repeats. The cosplay was okish. Some people pwned more then others, some people, it was their first con. And they just didn't know the cosplay drill yet.



Byakuya, Renji, and Rukia. They are so fun... 



Pedo Uncle gin wanted it so...



There was this random shitty ulquiorra that came and was more hyper then I WAS. He ran by and hit my and almost flung my wig off. I yelled at him bad.



TESLA GETTIN NAKKID

He had a costume malfunction with his coat. At one point he was sitting, wig off in the grass trying to fix his zipper.



NEERRR. Like Spencer, his sword also had fuzz on the end which I played with dispite his "NOOO DON'T PULL THIS OFF" Tone.

His was red though.



Gary gets his groove on.





SO MUCH JOY. I gave him an Ulqui bookmark because I told him he was the only Tousen that acknowledged me as their little boy. Big hugs.



Sissy characters smoking makes for funny pictures.