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I'm back!

Long story short: Went to Michigan. Played too much DDR for anyone's good. Placed 3rd in the DDRFest freestyle tournament with Rebecca; left before the tech tournament because we weren't about to enter while wearing our costumes. Came back today. I'll post more in a little bit. I hope it doesn't take me too long to catch up on reading friends pages stuff.

Oh yah, and I got to try MAX2. :)

My Michigan DDR Adventures

Friday
I drove out to Oakmont, where Rebecca lives, and we practiced our routine once or twice on her DDR stages, with music but without actual game because one stage doesn't work. We got on the road shortly afterwards.
( a roadtrip )

Saturday's Tournament
Got up in the morning and put on my Alice costume; well, everything except the freakin' blue wig, because DAMN it's hot wearing that. Rebecca put on her Yuni costume, and we took a bunch of pictures of us at the house (which I'll have and post as soon as she dumps them off her camera), and then we drove to Pinball Pete's in Ann Arbor, where the tournament was. They have like five DDR machines there...
( Freestylers galore; we manage to place third. )

Saturday afternoon
After the freestyle was over it was like 4pm... so they were going to have a tech tournament too. But, I'd hung out and played a little bit of DDR already and I was feeling really sweaty and awful and it was sort of hard to play in costume because I wasn't used to the baggy pants (although I was able to pull off Absolute maniac, BB$ KOG trick, and Super Star maniac in them when I took advantage of the free play during the judging score total time). So we headed back to Adrian, where we showed off our certificate and some of the videos to the family hanging out there... and showered and changed to head back out.

Saturday night
BLASTERS HAS WAY TOO MANY DDR MACHINES FOR THEIR OWN GOOD.

That's about all that can be said. My god, they have 7 DDR machines (no joke - in order, along a wall, they had a MAX, a 4th Plus, a 5th, a Disney's Rave, another 5th, another MAX, and a MAX2! I'll babble about MAX2 in a second). The 7 DDR machine stages are touching each other - you could literally run along a whole wall of DDR stages. They also had a Samba machine, a Para Para 2nd Mix, a Beatmania 6th, Guitar Freaks 6th, and Drummania 4th. There were also lots of gratuitous Konami interactive games, like the samurai game where you hold a sword as the interface, and a Lupin shooter game - Rebecca made me take pictures of her next to a lot of those. Except for their No-food-no-drink-nobody policy, this was an amazing arcade.
( One night in Brighton and the world's your oyster )

Sunday
My nose is really stuffed, so I woke up at 10am, despite setting my cellphone to ring at 9:30, and that everyone else in the house woke up when they smelled pancakes cooking. I came downstairs and ate pancakes. Then we showered/changed/packed/etc and got on the road.
( farmland, left-handedness and the beaver valley mall )

I wonder if these LJ-cuts worked as I intended. Dang, that took an hour to write. I hope Eli doesn't kill me.

ooo, pictures already! thanks Rebecca!

And for anyone who wants to see our COOL DDR COSTUMES:
DDRFest Cosplay

These aren't the greatest quality, but hey, digital cameras rock. I bet the real film versions will scan very nicely.

(If you don't know who we're dressed as, see here: This is Alice and This is Yuni.)

I'm the one with the blue hair.