Eurofurence: The Report - Day 3 (Friday)
Aug. 31st, 2006 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slycatReally need to do these, otherwise I'm in fear of forgetting what I did, like I did for AC2002... I expect each report will get shorter and shorter as what happened slowly becomes a distant memory... anyway, on with the report.
Up early again for breakfast, but there were no events that were worth attending that morning, so I went to Nuremberg with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
arakinuk and colifox, where we had some delicious ice cream (I had mint choc chip and Snickers flavours) before walking further into Nuremberg where Arakin introduced us to the delight that is Currywurst (large red sausage, sliced into small chunks and then covered with curry powder, paprika and curry sauce which only the Germans know how to do...) mmm! Then went to a gigantic comic book store which put Forbidden Planet to shame. Time was getting on, and I wanted to get back for the fursuit parade. Got back to the hostel around 1pm which gave us time to cool down (after the exhausting hike back to the hostel) before the parade.
Got suited up and walked the short distance to the main stage hall where there were already a large number of fursuiters and photographers. Did my best to mingle with the other fursuiters, posing for photos and the like before the parade began. The parade had what must have been in the region of 80 fursuiters walking around the grounds of Nuremberg castle, following Mystifur (dressed as his raccoon) who was playing cheesy music from a ghetto blaster for people to bop along to :P It was a rather cool, if totally surreal experience, but I really enjoyed the attention. At one stage, evenunclekage stopped to take my photo which I thought was pretty cool :D. Come to the end of the parade, we gathered around a kinda rocky formation. As I was one of the first there, I thought it'd be good to get up at the back to allow more people at the front. However the side effect was I ended up right behind the tree so no real good photos exist of me in the group shot. After it was decided enough photos had been taken, everyone disappeared back inside the hostel and I went back to my room to change.
The whole experience had been pretty sweaty, and because I had no protective balaclava type thing, the inside of my fursuit head got pretty moist, and you could see the inside of the white fur had got a bit dirty. Now, I'm always one who takes pride in my posessions, especially something like this, and so I have to say I felt a little depressed at what happened to the head and got it in my head (my mind, not the fursuit head this time) that the suit didn't look any good as a partial. As such, when people were suiting up for the second (and final) fursuit photoshoot, I decided to opt out.
Instead, I watched the fursuit masquarade which was very short before going too to Nuremberg with Arakin and Colifox again. Arakin took us to a place where they sell lots of Bratwurst. I had the meal which contained 10 sausages! It's worth pointing out that these were small sausages, not the giant one I know I was expecting! Went for Belgian waffles in the so called "Australian" chocolate shop which was playing American music (and being in Germany, was totally confused about it's nationality). The waffles were freshly cooked while we waited and then smothered with chocolate and an ice cream of our choosing. I went for the belgian chocolate, and I have to say it was delicious! While we were waiting, we had a bit of a natter with the girl who worked there, who was an english student, so was pretty good with the language. She thought we were there for the games convention which was apparantly in town, however we had to put her straight on that one and explain we were there for the furry con. She had no idea what that was so we had fun explaining. Anyway, after filling up on sugary delights, we made our way back to the hostel in order to catch theunclekage vs 2_gryphon show.
Now, I had seen Uncle Kage perform before doing his story hour at AC2002, and so I knew what to expect, being an amusing series of annecdotes, told with great enthusiasm and comic timing (which in this instance, Kage's show was again very entertaining, including a story about the demise of AC's old hotel). However, I had only heard of 2 before, but had never found myself bothered enough to seek out any of his work. I was very pleasantly suprised that 2's show was also very funny. He obviously knew his audience as he made fun of things like religion, america and furries. In fact, once 2's show was over and they both went head to head on stage, they both openly mocked America as best they could (almost like they weren't allowed to while in America and had to get it off their chests), amongst other subjects. As the night drew on, both of them were out of material, but the audience still wanted more. So they ended up just drawing things which best described a word someone called out. It was obviously late as someone called out "anthropromorphic waffle" and also "George Bush", to which Kage did the obvious thing and drew an asshole. After things just got silly, they called it a night and everyone went to bed after a thoroughly entertaining evening.
Up early again for breakfast, but there were no events that were worth attending that morning, so I went to Nuremberg with
arakinuk and colifox, where we had some delicious ice cream (I had mint choc chip and Snickers flavours) before walking further into Nuremberg where Arakin introduced us to the delight that is Currywurst (large red sausage, sliced into small chunks and then covered with curry powder, paprika and curry sauce which only the Germans know how to do...) mmm! Then went to a gigantic comic book store which put Forbidden Planet to shame. Time was getting on, and I wanted to get back for the fursuit parade. Got back to the hostel around 1pm which gave us time to cool down (after the exhausting hike back to the hostel) before the parade.Got suited up and walked the short distance to the main stage hall where there were already a large number of fursuiters and photographers. Did my best to mingle with the other fursuiters, posing for photos and the like before the parade began. The parade had what must have been in the region of 80 fursuiters walking around the grounds of Nuremberg castle, following Mystifur (dressed as his raccoon) who was playing cheesy music from a ghetto blaster for people to bop along to :P It was a rather cool, if totally surreal experience, but I really enjoyed the attention. At one stage, even
unclekage stopped to take my photo which I thought was pretty cool :D. Come to the end of the parade, we gathered around a kinda rocky formation. As I was one of the first there, I thought it'd be good to get up at the back to allow more people at the front. However the side effect was I ended up right behind the tree so no real good photos exist of me in the group shot. After it was decided enough photos had been taken, everyone disappeared back inside the hostel and I went back to my room to change.The whole experience had been pretty sweaty, and because I had no protective balaclava type thing, the inside of my fursuit head got pretty moist, and you could see the inside of the white fur had got a bit dirty. Now, I'm always one who takes pride in my posessions, especially something like this, and so I have to say I felt a little depressed at what happened to the head and got it in my head (my mind, not the fursuit head this time) that the suit didn't look any good as a partial. As such, when people were suiting up for the second (and final) fursuit photoshoot, I decided to opt out.
Instead, I watched the fursuit masquarade which was very short before going too to Nuremberg with Arakin and Colifox again. Arakin took us to a place where they sell lots of Bratwurst. I had the meal which contained 10 sausages! It's worth pointing out that these were small sausages, not the giant one I know I was expecting! Went for Belgian waffles in the so called "Australian" chocolate shop which was playing American music (and being in Germany, was totally confused about it's nationality). The waffles were freshly cooked while we waited and then smothered with chocolate and an ice cream of our choosing. I went for the belgian chocolate, and I have to say it was delicious! While we were waiting, we had a bit of a natter with the girl who worked there, who was an english student, so was pretty good with the language. She thought we were there for the games convention which was apparantly in town, however we had to put her straight on that one and explain we were there for the furry con. She had no idea what that was so we had fun explaining. Anyway, after filling up on sugary delights, we made our way back to the hostel in order to catch the
unclekage vs 2_gryphon show.Now, I had seen Uncle Kage perform before doing his story hour at AC2002, and so I knew what to expect, being an amusing series of annecdotes, told with great enthusiasm and comic timing (which in this instance, Kage's show was again very entertaining, including a story about the demise of AC's old hotel). However, I had only heard of 2 before, but had never found myself bothered enough to seek out any of his work. I was very pleasantly suprised that 2's show was also very funny. He obviously knew his audience as he made fun of things like religion, america and furries. In fact, once 2's show was over and they both went head to head on stage, they both openly mocked America as best they could (almost like they weren't allowed to while in America and had to get it off their chests), amongst other subjects. As the night drew on, both of them were out of material, but the audience still wanted more. So they ended up just drawing things which best described a word someone called out. It was obviously late as someone called out "anthropromorphic waffle" and also "George Bush", to which Kage did the obvious thing and drew an asshole. After things just got silly, they called it a night and everyone went to bed after a thoroughly entertaining evening.
