SDCC 2014

Better late than never

I was going to stop blogging ( because let's face it, no one really reads this), but I think I like having a place to share my story and so what if it's not read. 

So I want to talk about my trip to SDCC 2014. It was beyond awesome. Every time I think about it, It makes me smile. 

Let's start with my lodging nightmare

OMG It really was a nightmare. My brother lives in San Diego and the plan was to stay with him again this year. He is also in the Navy and had been deployed for the past 8 months or so. He was supposed to be coming back a few weeks before Comic Con. I got a message from him 5 weeks before I was leaving that he would NOT be coming back in time and that he didn't have an apartment yet. Ummmmm HOLY CRAP.

We all know that the hotels are pretty much booked solid - in a matter of minutes- when they release them in April. Here it was JUNE and I had to 1- find a place to stay and 2- figure out how the heck I was going to pay for it. The few rooms that I did find were crazy expensive, I almost got scammed by someone "renting" out a condo (turns out he didn't even have a condo and was just taking people's money), and there were even Craigslist adds renting out couches for $200 a night!  I was just about ready to drop $100 a night to stay in a downtown Hostel, or just sleep in the Hall H line every night. 

Who cares what the panels are the next day,
 I've found an affordable place to sleep! 

Thankfully I was able to get something through Priceline, it was WAY over priced, but at least it was a legit place to stay. I ended up in a small Hotel near Qualcom Stadium. I rented a car and we decided it would be fastest to drive to spot near Mission Valley, Hotel Circle. Thank NBC for hooking us all up with round the clock buses. It was about a 5 min drive to the bus stop and about a half hr by bus to get there. 

A nice comfy ride at that

I didn't get this all settled and arranged until 2 weeks before I was leaving. I was so relieved to not have that stress anymore! Since Andrew wasn't going to be able to make it this year, I also had to find a new friend to go with. I would have gone solo, but it is much more fun with a buddy. So I decided to bring Brandon, another brother, to fill in for Andrew. Brandon is mellow and just wanted to go to take pictures. Perfect! Someone to follow me around, and document the trip. 

Just landed in San Diego, one of the few together picts we got.