This weekend's experimental Excursion was to Con on the Cob, a gaming convention located outside of Kent. There was anime, movies,games and naturally a room full of stuff to buy. I'd only heard about this convention because Jen and Jon from Anime were involved in running the movie portion. At the con I met up with two other members of Ze Anime group, Elaine, and Jessica.

After meeting up with the girls(oddly I arrived first.) we wondered into the room O (capitalist pig dog) Stuff. The room O Stuff was filled with art and games. Sadly I wasn't really into buying art though there was picture or two and none of the games really caught my eye. Which was too bad as my parents and I could have tried one today. :( Then after ze girls had bid upon some pictures it twas off to the movie watch weird stuffs.

We came during the start of Neverending story and stayed through some anime about a chinese chef who has fill his mothers shoes as the greatest chef in all China. Naturally this caused much hunger and so it twas decided to head out for food. We ended up going to Mikes place which seemed to be a hangout for colledge kids near Kent The prices were reasonable, the food wasn't bad and it had an X-wing out front, what more could you ask for?

Upon our return it twas back to ze movie room for some Full Metal Panic and Kino's Journey. Then I'd tried watching stuffs, and headed to the game room for something more interesting. There I wondered into a Game of Rail Road Tycoon the Boardgame. Very fun game, though unfortunately I was far to profligate in my bidding for first player and I got saddled with too much debt early in the game, from which I was never able to recover though I at least managed to make a profit and only came in second last out of five people.

In conclusion I had a good time at the Con and hopefully I can go again next year. I kinda regret not spending more time gaming, but well you can only do one thing at a time.