No Lines, No Lines, No Lines

Brunch was a little late today. I was thinking maybe eat around 10:30 or so and get downtown around noon. That way if getting badges took a while we would have slack in our schedule. Twitter feeds are showing badge pickup taking about an hour. That is the same as last year without the computer issue we had. But maybe we didn't make it to brunch until noon. I think I counted on that actually. We always seem to run late for Dragon*Con.

We parked in our favorite garage around 1-1:30, which is about a block from the Sheraton. From where we are we can tell the line isn't wrapped around the building....good sign. As we reached the light to cross we couldn't actually tell where the line was. There didn't seem to be anyone outside..very confusing.  As we approached the building we were waived inside...what? No one waiting outside? So we keep walking to the "labyrinth"  it looked like this:

No line, No line, No line. Whatever they changed this year....keep it up.

So we were in and out so fast we didn't quite know what to do with ourselves. We walked around for a while but nothing was set up yet so we left to just go start drinking at the Highlander. We've decide this will be tradition for now on.

And in following in the footsteps of last year...there was much beer to be had...maybe too much..ok maybe  just too much for me.   Our first waitress:

Nice sleeve huh? Her husband runs a tattoo parlor can't cha tell. But to avoid a repeat of last year we hightailed it out of there before going through a second waitress.

Here's hoping for a less chaotic start to Dragon*Con this year.