I have been thinking about wrinting a journal about Eurofurence every day before we could have gone with iRBiS and Qzurr together but I was too lazy to do so, thus I'm trying to recall my memories as much as I can.
Aug. 24
iRBiS came to my home from Tanathy to sleep there because it could save some time to get to Suhl – Ringberg Hotel to the Eurofurence of course after we give a lift to Qzurr from Budapest – Csepel. As soon as he arrived, my mother made a little dinner for us from one of my favourite meal she makes sometime to the family, then we went to our bed.
Aug. 25
We woke up and took our luggages, cases, knapsacks, whatevers into iRBiS' car, then were heading our way to Budapest – Csepel. We arrived and had about half an hour of chat with Qzurr at his residence, then took him and his luggage into the car and headed our way to Eurofurence. It was a long, exhausting trip there, but in case of getting lost, my mother took a map of Europe to me so it was handy of course, but I couldn't tell the same if we would have lost in a city, unless we had to ask for local people for right directions, but fortunatelly we didn't have any of those. We arrived eventually at the hotel. Infront of the main entrance I saw the first fursuiter was probably having fun with one of a convention attendeer. The character was something black and white wolf. We parked and got into the hotel's correct place to get our registration first, because iRBiS said there will surely be a bigger queue by tomorrow because everyone will registering into the con at that place. As soon as we got our badge(I was the last from us) I was trying to follow them to some sort of a bar desk where they took their temporary place for a while, then they were trying to show me something and when I saw something familiar in the conbook, I was shocked. I couldn't even believe it! It was MY entry as an interior art at the very middle of the whole conbook. Woot! It was interesting to me as a surprise because the Eurofurence contest jury said nothing about my entry art I have sent them when they were announcing the winners. I was realy happy at that time.
We were trying to look around when suddenly I realized yet another familiar someone at the lobby: it was RealZero! We welcomed eachother with a hug and then headed our way to our accommodations to get it done for the day. The accommodation was a bungalow with electricity in it so in case of battery problems we were able to recharge our cellphones. We took our stuffs out from the car and packed into the bungalow. We were hanging out at the town, Suhl to get some food, but we hardly bought anything. We had some chat with eachother at night, I tried to go back to the hotel all by myself by lending iRBiS' car but at the half of the road I had a Déja Vú from my dreams when I was lost and I frightened in that short time and turned back immediatelly. When I got back, RealZero said that I came back faster than I went away. I told them about this strange, familiar bad dream recalling feeling so they understood why. Eventually we went to our bed to sleep.
Aug. 26
„Day 0.” has been initiated. We all helped Qzurr to take his arts down to the Artist Alley first, we waited for some hours, because the Art Show room was opened at about 10-11:00 or so, I don't remember, because in the meantime I was hanging around all alone with my cellphone in case if I'm needed for something. I was „stalking” all around the lobby and hunt for fursuiters to take some photos with them. The first ones were really memorable to me. A feline one with a japanese umbrella, then a hyena with a Rifle replica. As I saw him, I greeted him with a military salute, then he took his gun into the other paw and saluted back, in the meantime I was trying to make a photo of him then saluted again as a sign of „dismissed” with smile. I've met with Duncan after he said „I know you... And do you know me?”. For some second I couldn't believe it myself that I could have finally meet this big greeny roo by person too but eventually all the anxciousness flown away. I was smiling mostly every time I saw him. He said he will dressing up into his fursuin in some minute, in the meantime I was looking for Dodger, and he eventually got there. Sometime I didn't really understood his verbs, but after a while I got used to that, maybe I didn't hear it clearly, just where there were less noise of the crowd. So once Dodger got his registration done, Duncan appeared again and took some photo of eachother, then Duncan wanted me to go with him, while I was taking shots with my camera. It was really a blast! We also went out to the local playground, photoed him with many of those hillarious poses he did in and went back, then out again. After that I went back to meetup with Dodger again because it was the first time I could spend my time with him, OK, also with RealZero and Duncan, oh my, I wanted to be with everyone I wanted at the same time... eventually I solved this problem by checking them in different times. :)
We took two chair with Dodger and I was drawing some little, then stood up to give my place to a fursuiter who have been walking around, it was nice to see a fursuiter around and talk with him/her. In the meantime, some guy came there with monocles at their eyes and pretended to be aristocratic and had fun on us as a joke, when they were heading away, one of them apologised if they insulted us, I said, no problem, I knew they were just having fun and so. Thus he gave me a clay made donut and he said he gives them only to the furs he likes by the first time so it was really kind of him, we gave us eachother's availability, such as nicknames on FA, DA or so and of course our cellphones. Those Finn guys were hillarious, it was fun having jokes with eachother.
The Opening ceremony had begun and we tried to listen to it while most of the attendeers were having their meals at the BBQ area. The BBQ costed 15 Euros to get in, but from the time forward for at least two hours you could eat as much as you could. I was such an idiot that I missed it though I was nearby that terrace anyway, because firstly I didn't know how much will I spend for each entertainment at occasions and how much should I save for the Fuel price to iRBiS. Should I go or not... the hell with that! I went in after I paid the entrance fee and had a mountain of food at my dish for the first time. I ate it all finally at the desk where iRBiS, Qzurr, Ralesk and Flycatcher were. We had laughed so hard and I wasn't even wondering why, since they took 2 glasses of beer, I was rather keeping myself away from alcoholic things, because I knew how I am reacting when I can't hold it much longer of normal mind.
We moved along and headed our way at the area of the Hotel's rear side where there was a campfire and we took our seats. Someone had begun to play a violin, it was so good that somebody stood up and started to dance around the fire, I joined in and RealZero did too, it was such fun though each time we passed through the smoke, I breathen some of it but it was a blast anyway! The campfire kept us warm while there were mostly cold outside, considering the fact it was more to the North compared to Hungary since this con has been organized at the center of Germany.
We went home with RealZero and iRBiS and slept again after having a shower I think.
Aug. 27
Our schedule was again to wake up, have some breakfast and get back to the Hotel. Since the last night I was passing many times through the campfire's smoke and wherever I took my seat, it followed me so my pants was still a little bit smoked, but at least I could exchange my T-Shirts and every other stuffs by the next day.
As my regular plan I was stalking around, met again with Dodger, and had yet another time of blast. Ordered for meal at the bar and at the café bar, but he bought cocktails which he shared with me of course. All cocktails were so delicious and soft. We went down to the Artist Alley again, looked around and went to the Art show to check the bids if there are some, and for sure there so huge prices that some people could afford to. The biggest were about 400 euros. Gosh!...
After all the prices have been checked and the originals with prints too we were heading to the Dealer's Den where we bought many stuffs for ourselves mostly. There were so many interesting thing that I felt sorry I couldn't buy, but I didn't left the room with empty paw. I bought 1 badge from Gideon for 1 euro which was laminated at the same room, but from Lagarto's Lamination.
We left and hanged around some more, then I was heading with Dodger to his hotel room to have some rest then I slept at his room, though there were another „unexpected roomie” but it wasn't a problem because that guy was far away from our room.
Aug. 28
Before we were heading to bed to sleep, RealZero sent me an SMS as a reminder to our Group Photo Shoot, so we had to wake up at around 9 and 10 a.m. And dressed up. The hotel rooms were fantastic I think. Much better than in Hungary. So we were heading down to the Terrace and prepared for group photo shooting, unfortunatelly there were some taller guys who tried to wear a silly muffin hat thus I couldn't see the photographer either, so I had to lean out of it's position, I don't know if it worked. Once the photoshooting was over in about 5 or 10 minutes, we were heading down to the Artist Alley again and look around again. Dodger ordered a comission from Nyemi who was sitting behind Qzurr's place which was shared to him with Alector Fencer. Alector was trying to sell some original honey and even provided us some taste from them and they were really good. Too bad I couldn't carry some bottles of them because I was unsure about my money questions. I just remembered by that time that there is an event I would be interested so I searched immediatelly that room and dropped in to check it. It was about how to handle Vector style graphics. It was interesting and also made me sleepy, it was so calming. It was overtaken with about half an hour, but no problem, it happens all the time, some attendeers said. We were hanging around again, taking some photos of fursuiters and even played with them again which was also a good fun.
The Art Auction was a fun for the beginning, but at the end it was getting a bit exhausting, but at least it proven to me as something enjoyable and good. At first it was like a non working thing, but people were bidding so active at the middle of it like hell. One of the auctioned art was bidded to about 50 euros or so and the picture was something erotic contented, I don't remember now exactly, but let's say this was the starting price, then it came in this way really fast: 55, 60, 67, 80, then someone said: „300” Euros!. Unce Kage was so amazed by the nuke strike strength of bidding that he made a joke of it: „300 to the Horny Motherfucker! So what's your bid number?” and there were many of these for at least one hour.
The Uncle Kage vs 2 was on, but I didn't understood it really much, so I went down to the Artist Lounge and sit down with my artist kit which was just contained pencils, papers, table and so long. I saw there Karpour, Henrieke for sure and maybe TabbieFox too. I have been waiting for iRBiS and RealZero to finish the „Kage vs 2” and going back to the bungalows together. It was about 1:00 a.m. when we left. Before we left, I found Duncan again and gave him an unexpected present sketchie which was made him happy for the days. I loved to be with him as much as I could.
Aug. 29
This day was also a blast. Since I have got a programme booklet about upcoming events during the convention, I had spotted the 3D animation because I was always interested to learn how to handle it myself. Me and Dodger after met again, got into Saarland named room where the 3D Animation show was going on, and watched it. Though the show artists were trying to explain the things how they are making stuffs like „A” and „B”, one of the Convention staff was not really satisfied with their explanations, because he was interested in what are they doing and why. Eventually that staff member left, but after a while, the show artists were getting better on explaining what they are doing and why. I think it was good too like the Vector styled graphic show, so it wasn't so horrible.
Again I was hanging out with Dodger for a while, sat down at the lobby and browsed the net via WiFi, Ralesk and Flycatcher also found us there and took a seat too with us for a while, then they were heading away after some chat, then we too to Dodger's room again for some silent rest. We went down again to see how is this PawPet Show goes. It was going as an interesting story, too bad that there was a guy in a hat who blocked the view with it whenever he was leaning, the guys infront of me also leaned for a better view, so I wasn't be able to see eventually at all, later during the intermission we moved to an other place. The story was really interesting, I felt it half a way as a movie or somthing. At the end the thanksgiving for XY and MXY and Jóska, Péter, etc was getting boring to me so I left and looked for another programme, but there wasn't any programmes to attend at, so we sat down somewhere at a god forsaken corner and one of the fursuiter came there too and we 3 were complaining about how long did this pawpet show delayed anyway, because he was waiting to it's end to begin the dance in fursuit.
Aug. 30
The very end of the whole. ...Sadly. But were still happy that we could see eachother and thanked everyone who we met with and this wonderful chance made it so shiny every day for us. For the last time we tried to see everyone off who we have met and as much we remembered and eventually we were heading to iRBiS' car. When we went out of the hotel's secondary entrance, we realized that we were crying... Especially me and Qzurr. Because it was such a beautiful moment in our life that we cried of happiness and in the same time we were sad that we had to leave it. We couldn't believe it that it's over.
Summa
Like every generic furry would say in a 4 word term: „It Was Friggin' Awsum'!” but I made it a bit longer. Personally I would say the same if I would be an 455, but I did you all a favour and shared my experiences about Eurofurence 15. All the lifestyle was far better than in Hungary, and I mean it in general. Hungarian organizings are far worse than this and I feel myself in a big shame that I have to belong to a national community where there are mostly just conservative close minded people. Qzurr has the same opinion about it.
However we are really thankful for RealZero that he organized us the bungalows as an accommodation and not only for this, but for all his company he provided us, made us laugh at times and hanged out with. He's really proven to be a nice guy and a friend of us who is really a helpful tiger. He deserves to be appreviated by what he did. Once again, Thank you Zero!





