Aw, man, I don't know when it was that I last had so much fun. XD XD Myself and my anime club went to the Hickory Ridge mall today, dressed as anime characters.. well, a lot of people came, but only a portion dressed up. I attempted to be the Mad Hatter/Belial from angel sanctuary, but I didn't dye my hair red or do anything elaborate like Kai, who was wearing a very nice, home made Dragonslayer (from Escaflowne) outfit. Emiko dressed up as Duo Maxwell (very nice costume as well), and our boy Chris was Dorothy..complete with skirt, pantyhose, blond wig, and scary forked eyebrows XD; According to Kai they received some bitchy remarks, but what're you gonna do. We also had a Gendo Ikari, a Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita, a Prince Ashitaka, Oji something from the new anime Black Heaven, a Gene Starwind, a Pan (from DBZ)... hmm.. I think that was most everyone who dressed up. Two other girls were going to come as Lina Inverse and Sailorjupiter, respectively, but they got in a car accident (fortunately were -not- hurt, though Lina's truck is decimated x__x) and were out of costume when they arrived.

At first we mostly sat around and talked, and then we walked, visiting Suncoast (which was hot as hell xx) and skipping into Hot Topic for a moment..and we rode on the carousel, since that area was the only place were photograph taking was allowed..as I was buying a ticket, the lady there asked me 'What are all you people anyway' and I said 'Uhh, cartoons' and she said 'I thought you were satan worshippers' XD;;

But our Ashitaka said a lady came up to him and praised us for doing this, because it 'made people smile.' Aww :B

And on top of that, I met Ali and Laris and it was great :D :D They are twice as funny and nice offline as on. I could not stop laughing the whole way through our lunch in the food court, and when we rode the carousel, they stayed off to watch us and be silly XD; It was great and wonderful to meet them, I am only sad that Cal-Tan was unable to make it.

There was also a lot of hugging, from not only Ali and Laris but many of my other anime comrades. I liked the hugging. :3 It was a great sense of togetherness we had, I think, trotting through the mall in our troupe. I think there were about 20 people in all (my brother, who came as a guy in a DBZ t-shirt with a camera, was counting on the way home), which is not too shabby.

As an aside, after everyone disbanded my brother and I went down to the end of the mall where the Goldsmith's dept. store was located, and there was a live bunny outside the book store. :3 I petted it :3

Anyways, yes. I had lots and lots of fun and many people took fotos, but I don't know when they'll be developed and given to fearless leader Kai for scannage.