Theme: Scandinavian Folklore
Location: Utsikten Meetings
This is a con report I lost my notes for, so I'm writing it 12 years later based on my memory, photos and tweets I found. It might be missing some things!
Henrieke and I took a really early train from Veldhoven to Schiphol Airport, which was made a bit harder because Henrieke had a lot of pain in her foot. We made it to the airport and boarded our 10:30 flight to Stockholm Arlanda and got some nice views of Sweden.
We landed on time in Arlanda and took a long train ride to Nynäshamn, where the NFC hotel was. On the train we met Kalaallit, a nice surprise!
Around 15:00 we arrived in Nynäshamn and met Ekorren there, walked to the hotel and checked in. Kenket was in the room next to us!
We went to the supermarket with Ekorren to pick up some gross things like extra-salty liqorice and liqurice ice cream topping. Not for me. We also got some dinner in a small local restaurant on the way.
At 20:00 it was time for fursuit charades. It sounded really fun, so Baseball joined in! Ethan and Trax organized it, and it was a great time! Baseball was on a team with Lumo.
The rest of the night we spent art-jamming with friends.
We went to breakfast at 10:00. Then Baseball got ready for the fursuit parade, but sadly it was too wet outside for him, so he had to stay indoors.
After the parade, there was a play room set up in the main stage, which was pretty fun!
We spent some time drawing in the bar.
We had some ice cream at the ice cream buffet in the afternoon.
For dinner, we went to the taco buffet, which was pretty decent. Then we watched the fursuit game show.
We also watched the charity dog show.
The rest of the night we spent in the artist lounge with Ekorren, Yotie, Procyon and others. Mausie also dropped by!
I had a hard time getting out of bed and went for a late breakfast at 10:30. Breakfast was really good here though, so I made sure not to miss it.
Around lunchtime, Baseball did sketches for the Charity in the Dealers Den for 50 SEK a sketch (way too cheap!).
Later we went to Pinky's "Eat Sweden" panel. The rose hip soup was not my thing, but the reindeer ragout was great!
After that, we went to the group photo at 16:40
In the late afternoon, we spent some time sitting in the bar, making art.
At 19:50, we went to a Japanese restaurant for dinner.
Baseball partied hard that night. Henrieke hung out in the artist lounge again with Yotie, Ekorren and Procy. She also traded with Templa.
Yotie and Ekorren played an MLP board game they found. Things got pretty late, and at 4:00 Henrieke was still art jamming with Templa.
At 13:00 we watched the closing ceremony. The convention raised 5400 usd for charity, not bad for a con with less than 400 attendees!
After that there wasn't much going on, so we went out to explore Nynäshamn a bit. There wasn't too much to see though. We walked to the harbor and back.
We hung out a bit more in the Artist Lounge.
At night, there was the Dead Dog Party. We met Ethan there, who was the absolute life of the party. We drew him a price for his great party energy.
The music was great, Baseball came down and really enjoyed it. They even played Moskau!
We stayed until around 1:00, then went to bed.
We had breakfast, then took the train to Stockholm where Henrieke, Ekorren, Yotie and I had an AirBnB. We explored the city a bit.
Later we went to the Vasa museum, which I had no idea even existed. It was really impressive and a great time!
In the evening, Trax asked if we wanted to join to Sjätte Tunnan, a restaurant on Gamla Stan in the center in Stockholm. We did and had a nice evening hanging out with friends.
The food was good, but the prices were about 3x as much as we could afford!
We went to the airport and took our flight back to Amsterdam.
