And another year at Cap! I spent a lot of the con with a cold, unfortunately, but it was still fun! Gaming had gaming passports this year, where you had to play one game from each of four different groups. Once you played two, you could put a raffle ticket into any of the standard prize boxes (Star Trek, Doctor Who, Star Wars, Firefly). Once you finished the passport, you got to choose whether to put another ticket into one of those or put a ticket into the grand prize box (large compilation of assorted random cool stuffs). 
I spent an uncharacteristically small amount of my cash at this con, and my mother spent an uncharacteristically large amount of cash. Maybe there’s a correlation? She got me a nice framed unicorn in Art Show, which I have a matching folder for, and a mandrake root from Bast’s Garden in Dealer’s Hall, because it was cute. The conversation went something like this:
“Would you like a mandrake, dear?”
“Sure.”
(As she’s pulling out her wallet) “Wait, why am I buying this? You have more cash than I do!”
“Because you offered?” (She sighs and buys it anyways)
My voice was coming and going and crackling all weekend, but that didn’t stop me from bidding at Art Auction. What can I say? One of Cheryl’s dragons was going for $26. That’s too low for her stuff – her pieces usually average $50 by the end of Auction, and pretty much all of her work makes it to Auction. Art goes to Auction once it has at least three bids on it in Art Show.
Pretty much, I spent the weekend relaxing, playing games and hanging out with friends.
