ChicagoCon 2008 - Saturday, July 19
Saturday, July 19
Departure
Saturday ended the convention; we were required to be out of our rental house at 10 AM.
Biscuits
Free food
Free toys
Mallory's enormous jug of Gatorade
Cleaning out the fridge
Packing
Saying goodbye
More farewells
Paul B plays around with crutches that are way too short for him
Lance
The Reidmobile is almost packed and ready to go
We Are Susan
The last five people to leave the house were Paul B, Lance, Logan, Stephen, and Will. Paul B was simply driving home by himself from the convention, and could leave at any time. However, Lance was responsible for taking the others to their airports, so Paul B, with nothing better to do, decided to drive with them and eat lunch with them near O'Hare. The five of them eventually converged on a T.G.I. Friday's in Rosemont.
Sitting around the table
The restaurant was pretty empty; we were the only people sitting in our section of the restaurant, and we were one of maybe only three or four occupied tables throughout the whole restaurant. Thus, we were screwing around a lot, since there wasn't anyone to bother.
Logan tries to fit the card back into its holder
Logan plays with a knife while Stephen counters with the ketchup bottle
Paul B and Will
Of course, the idea of saying it was someone's birthday came up at some point during the discussion; our server happened to be in earshot at the time, and decided to go along with it, even though the birthday was obviously facetious. After much back and forth with our server as to what name we should use and whose birthday it would be, we finally decided that the five of us collectively were "Susan," and it was Susan's birthday.
Susan's birthday
[Video courtesy of Stephen]
Our birthday treat
We decided to see how long the candle would last until it was put out by molten ice cream if we didn't blow it out ourselves.
Lance drinks the dessert as Stephen eats it in a more traditional manner
The candle's still going...
...and still going. It burned out about two minutes after this photo.
To be fair, the Coke did not, in fact, have any tomatoes in it.
Susan at the T.G.I. Friday's sign
Susan then walked next door to Baskin Robbins for (more) dessert.
Susan at Baskin Robbins
Apparently they have waffale cones.
After that, it was time to depart.
Susan prepares to get back into Susan's car and drive to the airport
Susan goes back to the Fishtank for the drive home.
[Photo courtesy of Stephen]
Thus ended Chicagocon 2008. We'll have to see if we can top this next year!
And finally...
DINO RAMPAGE
DINO RAMPAGE!!!
[Photo courtesy of Mallory]