This weekend I will be driving to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to attend Sogen Con. While I have never been to Sogen Con, I have high hopes for a great weekend. It is a smaller convention, but there are several interesting guests and a very interesting and unique list of events, many of which I have not seen at previous conventions.
This weekend, I will be attending my fifth anime convention this year, the Anime Festival Wichita held in Wichita, KS. It is one of the smaller cons I have ever attended, but it should be fun. Expect a report when I return.
This weekend I will be attending Anime Iowa, a convention held in the brand new Coralville, IA hotel and convention center just outside of Iowa City. This should be the largest convention I will have attend this year, with an estimated 2,000 attendees. It is also the first convention which I will be attending for all three days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It should be a lot of fun, and I will report back with the details after I return.
Last weekend I attended my third Anime convention this year, Otaku Omaha. While it was the smallest of the conventions I have attended, and there were some serious problems with the hotel (see the previous post about the horrible, horrible Carlisle hotel), there were some definite highlights to the experience.
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I just got back from my trip to Otaku Omaha last night, and while I will be posting photos and information about the con later, I thought I would make a quick post about the hotel the con was at.
Without a doubt the Carlisle Hotel (a Days Inn) is the worst hotel I have stayed at in a long time. The hotel is obviously old judging from the architecture and decor and the state of repair and neatness of the hotel suggests that there has been no maintenance or cleaning done to the premises since it first opened. The EPA should categorize the place as a Superfund site and seal it off for the betterment of all mankind.
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