This weekend was really fun. I had been looking forward to this for a long while, because a group of my friends came together to plan a big meetup at FACTS. We were 9 people in total, and some of us were even meeting each other for the first time.
We woke up semi early because our friend was arriving at 10 am to pick up Nathan and I and take us to FACTS. It was about 1h drive from our destination. The drive itself wasn’t bad and we arrived at the convention around 11:30am, after struggling with finding a parking spot.
Our friends were gathered outside and it was REALLY nice seeing familiar and new faces. I met my friend Sunni and Gortax for the first time, since Sunni had flown in from her country to attend this event. After our first greetings, we headed into the building. We started right in the middle where all the big stalls were. You could skip that if you wanted and just enter it by the artist alley.
We started walking around and looking at what they had. There were a lot of everything. TCG stands, T-shirts, Plushies, Posters, Cloths etc… We ended up splitting into smaller groups cuz of different interest and walking pace. We visited the 18+ area which was the first for me. I thought it was sort of cool that they had a dedicated section for those type of stuff. After a while, we all met up at the food hall to get something to eat and drink, and just to share the stuff we had bought so far. We then checked out the artist alley, where I ended up buying a lit up picture frame of Totoro (Japanese movie). I also walked around looking for more League of Legends trading cards, but only found one stall that got them.
Just like that it was already almost 6pm. We met up one last time before we said our goodbyes and left. It was really fun and I enjoyed meeting up with so many of my friends, BUT I did get super overwhelmed with the entire thing and I also felt like I didn’t get to see anything (Which was ofc, my fault for rushing through it all) If I do this again I will focus more about seeing everything rather than just sticking around my friends and just go where they wanted to go.
The drive home was just as smooth, but when we finally got home all the walking and overwhelming feelings caught up to me and I started feeling a bit sick. I also hadn’t eat a lot throughout the day. I just had 1 egg + bacon sandwich and 1 onigiri throughout the day. As for drinks, I only drank 1 monster and 1 cola. I also just felt overly exhausted and it felt as if everything in my body hurt xD.
After a much needed rest I felt much better. Sunday I joined the band boys for their photo shoot. That was also very fun, because they had such a great and goofy vibes.
Overall a great weekend with a lot of fun and I used a lot of energy XD Had a lot of fun and can’t wait to hopefully do more IRL things like this in the future.
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