Welcome to Atlanta: The Remix

I figured I'd break down my Atlanta trip into a few parts since there was A LOT that I encountered and figured I should cover most of it. So day 2 brings us to Dragon-Con. Not sure what Dragon-Con is? Oh let me tell you! It's a huge convention for sci-fi, fantasy, comic books, etc... pretty much everything I'm not. Considering I've never seen all the Star Wars, Lord of the Rings movies or Avatar you could say I was out of my element. Needless to say, I'm always up for trying new things and plus it would be excellent people watching for this newbie.

Dragon-Con Parade

 

 

 

Hot Mess #1: This wasn't the Playboy Convention...

Because wearing a corset over your shirt is acceptable.

We made our way into one of the hotels where there were masses of people in costume. I might have gotten a little excited when I saw Jem. I'm not going to lie I had all of the Jem & the Holigram dolls growing up so when I saw her might have yelled out, "Jem! Over here!" Yeah, I'm a total nerd alert.

Out of all the costumes I saw Jem was my favorite probably because it was the only one I could relate to and was the most normal one out of the bunch.  I totally missed out on getting my picture taken with the guy dressed up from the SNL skit "Laser Cats."

This is normal. Hanging out with a guy in pleather & hooker boots.

I also encountered this thing. It was a he. He had on hooker boots he probably got at Priscilla's. I originally took a picture of him from afar, but he caught me and came up to me. Surely I thought I was going to get served by the giant string bean, but instead he invited me to his band's concert and gave me a flyer.

Yeah buddy, I'm so sure I'm going to go to see your band perform since I would totally fit in with the crowd there.

Needless to say we did not go to the concert.

With Chubs from Planet of the Apes

I also recognized the monkey from Planet of the Apes.

The only reason is because I might have watched it on FX one day and it peaked my interest when I saw Mark Wahlberg aka "Marky-Mark" was starring in it.










Just because I haven't shown enough pictures, here are some more for your viewing pleasure!!

Mario and Luigi

One Ghostbuster.

Met up with Chewy, he had major back sweat.