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Well, the day's finally here. It's the first day of Otakon, and AAA's concert is scheduled for 7:00 PM. After seeing the schedule and noticing that the autograph sessions are on Saturday and Sunday, I had to ask my cousin if he could take me on Saturday, too. Luckily, he said that was OK. I owe him big time. Thank you so much, Ray! 
My cousin says that it takes about an hour to get there, so I asked if we could leave at 2:00 PM. That should leave us a few hours to get registered and look around a little. On Saturday, AAA has a Q&A session scheduled for 11:00 AM, and their autograph session is scheduled for 1:00 PM, so I asked if we could leave at 9:00 AM. That will hopefully get us in time for the Q&A, but I'm more focused on the autograph session. Q&A is fun, but I don't really have any questions to ask them. Getting to personally meet them and get their autographs are what I'm really looking forward to on Saturday.
Believe it or not, I got a couple of little gifts for them. My mom couldn't believe that I'd do something like that because I've never done it before. I've never met any celebrities that I really liked, so I never felt compelled to get gifts in the past. Nevertheless, I thought for several days about what kinds of gifts to get for AAA. Ultimately, I decided to go with a Maryland theme to make the gifts a bit more memorable.
The first gift is the typical tourist gift, postcards:
Yes, I know that we're not in Washington DC, but it's close enough.
I'm planning on writing messages on these postcards, but I haven't decided on what to write. My Japanese handwriting is terrible, so it'll have to be in English. Hopefully, they have someone who can translate the messages for them. If not, that's fine. I hope they at least like the postcards.
The second gift is University of Maryland cell phone straps:
This is the gift that I really hope they like. This is the gift that I decided on after a lot of thinking and brainstorming. I knew that Japanese youths love their cell phones, so I thought that cell phone straps would be a good gift. At first, I was just going to get some straps from a store that I know, but I wanted to give them something that would remind them about their trip to Baltimore. So, I searched online and found someone selling University of Maryland straps on eBay. Lucky!
I got eight of them, so hopefully someone can deliver one to Yukari.
Anyway, it's getting late, so I should get some sleep before I get too excited.
My cousin says that it takes about an hour to get there, so I asked if we could leave at 2:00 PM. That should leave us a few hours to get registered and look around a little. On Saturday, AAA has a Q&A session scheduled for 11:00 AM, and their autograph session is scheduled for 1:00 PM, so I asked if we could leave at 9:00 AM. That will hopefully get us in time for the Q&A, but I'm more focused on the autograph session. Q&A is fun, but I don't really have any questions to ask them. Getting to personally meet them and get their autographs are what I'm really looking forward to on Saturday.
Believe it or not, I got a couple of little gifts for them. My mom couldn't believe that I'd do something like that because I've never done it before. I've never met any celebrities that I really liked, so I never felt compelled to get gifts in the past. Nevertheless, I thought for several days about what kinds of gifts to get for AAA. Ultimately, I decided to go with a Maryland theme to make the gifts a bit more memorable.
The first gift is the typical tourist gift, postcards:
Yes, I know that we're not in Washington DC, but it's close enough.
I'm planning on writing messages on these postcards, but I haven't decided on what to write. My Japanese handwriting is terrible, so it'll have to be in English. Hopefully, they have someone who can translate the messages for them. If not, that's fine. I hope they at least like the postcards.
The second gift is University of Maryland cell phone straps:
This is the gift that I really hope they like. This is the gift that I decided on after a lot of thinking and brainstorming. I knew that Japanese youths love their cell phones, so I thought that cell phone straps would be a good gift. At first, I was just going to get some straps from a store that I know, but I wanted to give them something that would remind them about their trip to Baltimore. So, I searched online and found someone selling University of Maryland straps on eBay. Lucky!
I got eight of them, so hopefully someone can deliver one to Yukari.
Anyway, it's getting late, so I should get some sleep before I get too excited.
