Mary is over working on hats, and I am being "lazy" and just chatting. Hoho. But this entry is so overdue and since I failed on posting reports on ANY conventions this year!!!
So yes, epic Florida trip before Halloween was awesome. We had so much fun that we didn't stop to take very many photos, but we did get some.
Brian and I left on a Wednesday afternoon in the super packed Porsche for Orlando, FL. We arrived at
chibi_plum and Chris's house late that night and crashed after chatting for a couple of hours.
On Thursday morning we picked up
animechicky2040 and headed to WDW's Magic Kingdom! Christa showed us around the best spots in the park and we rode a bunch of rides and got Pineapple icy floats. At around 2:30pm Christa left to go a class, so Brian and I finished up at Miagic Kingdom and headed over to Epcot because the International Food and Wine Festival was going on! OMG soooo much yummy food and drinks. I was in heaven! We tried all sorts of different dishes and found some gems. Christa joined us around dinner time and we stayed for another couple of hours till we just about fell over from all the walking and eating lol. Onto a few photos!

( More Disney images )Friday morning I rose early and did my hair and makeup for the bodypainting shoot. We met Nick Wolfe at his studio around 11am and got to work. The theme we chose was "Yazuka tattoo" and Nick free-handed an awesome Japanese Dragon surrounded by Sakura blossom. The painting took about 4 1/2 hours, and then Brian and Kevin Stewart took photos in the studio but soon decided to move to the outdoors for better lighting and background. We walked into a lake area surrounded by trees (and shielding my nekkidness from the road) and got a lot of great photos in the grass. The ones I'm posting are all by Brian.

Yakuza bodypaint I by *yayacosplay on deviantART

Yakuza bodypaint II by *yayacosplay on deviantART

Yakuza bodypaint - closeup by *yayacosplay on deviantART
( 4 more Bodypaint images )After the photoshoot, Brian and I met up with
kichara,
yuffieleonheart and their respective boyfriends at the Blue Martini for a drink or 3. I was starved and ordered like three dishes, and we had a good ol' time together. The food dishes come with a decorative flower and soon we all had flowers in our hair and eventually Amanda wore them all and became the elusive and elegant Flower-nocerous! We went home straight after the bar and crashed early.

( click for the rare Floer-nocerous image )On Saturday I got up early, again, to get ready for a photoshoot with Kevin Stewart. Half-way through curling my hair the device broke *dies*, so instead of having curly hair, I had to emergency style it into a sideway swept look. Still, it looked ok and we met Kevin in downtown Orlando and shot at a park for a few hours. I even had an outfit change. But until I get the photos back, just one preview close up.

After the shoot we got Thai with Chris,
chibi_plum and
animiko and went back to the house to get ready for our Tampa excursion. We were planning on going to the Taboo Halloween Party at
the Castle, and everyone had to still get in costume. I love this group of friends because we were all super efficient and fast! Left Orlando around 9pm, got to Tampa at 11pm, checked into our room, and got dressed in costume in under an hour. We arrived at the club right before Midnight, where things were just starting! To save time, I did both Lina and Miko's makeup in the car on the road LOL.
Girls...

...and boys!

We had a fabulous time at the club and closed out the night by walking the streets of Downtown Tampa in little more than lingerie trying to find a cab to take us back to the hotel lol.
On Sunday morning we rolled out of bed around 11am and slowly but surely made our way back to Orlando. We had just enough time to freshen up and chill for a bit before heading out again. Back to the Blue Martini since everyone in this group missed on going the last time. Also, we were going to Universal for Halloween Horror Nights and I wanted to be nice and tipsy for that. I am a total pussy when it comes to Horror movies and Haunted Houses. >_<
Yes, nice and buzzed...

What we were doing in this photo, I have no clue of!

We weren't really allowed to take photos inside the park in the houses, and it was a mad rush night anyway, so no more piccies. But you can see some I left out in my Flickr account!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/angelicstar/sets/72157622623433261/HHN was awesome as usual, but I personally just don't get that much out of it T_T. The lines are crazy. Still, it was nice to hang out with the group and even Rob and Wade joined us. We did four houses and the Bill & Ted Show that night.
We left with much sadness on Monday morning after an awesome breakfast at First Watch. Gosh I miss that place now. Thank you again so much to Chris and Lina for hosting us, and to all of the friends who came out and saw us! We'll do this again soon!
PS: Just uploading the photos and typing this entry took over 2 hours... hence why I don't post much anymore lol.