During the time after that, I was trying to plan to get tickets which is not easy at all. The online system was awful and to sum up, I couldn't get tickets. Apparently a lot of other people had issues with system freezes etc and just a bad time. I did get an email for future one day sales which was fine but my priority is to find lodging. Hotels in the downtown area skyrocket and we searched for a place not too far or expensive. Hector found a reasonably priced Quality Inn off Miramar/I-15. We figured if we couldn't get SDCC tickets we can always cancel the hotel if we decided not to go.
Single day tickets sales came and went and I had my own online issues with that too but it worked out okay in the end. To cut down on transportation headaches, we drove to Qualcomm stadium and caught the trolley to the convention center. It took about 45 minutes but it was really easy.
We drove down to San Diego Thursday morning and I chose the I-15 which was nice and traffic free. We tried to drop off our luggage at the hotel but no little extra room to store it and no clean rooms yet. I understood the clean room situation but no storage space?
For Thursday, I was only able to get a badge for myself but Josh could tag along with a paid adult. I think Tyler felt a little left out when we went to check out the exhibit floor but we left him in an extremely entertaining area at the Marriott called the Nintendo Lounge. Nice big area with a couple of areas with beanbags and 3DS chargers along with lots of demos, picture areas and lots of fellow gamers. I don't think he missed us at all. When we came back, he was loaded down with all sorts of goodies...meanwhile, Josh & I wandered only a small area of the exhibit floor that I thought was crowded but I was wrong. When we went back inside on Sunday, that was CROWDED. There was staff trying to direct the flow and keep it moving.
I ended up holding Josh's hand practically the entire time so he wouldn't get swept away...
The area outside the convention center was probably more entertaining for us because the crowds were not so tight and wait times were not too bad. The con has grown larger than life and there is no possible way to see/experience everything but the things/events that we managed to see, we were really happy with them so to sum up, Comic-con is what you make of it.
Photoset from Comic-Con 2013
We stayed an extra night after the whole Comic-con was over to hopefully beat the traffic ( still had traffic) but we made a side trip to La Jolla before heading home.
The water and weather were gorgeous. Over the weekend we had some overcast, cooler temperatures which was nice when dealing with masses of people but we got to have the pretty, stereotypical California weather too. :)
My silly boys.
With views like this, who can be sad???
Seriously, everything was postcard perfect.
The water really was this blue...
The beautiful end to our fun filled long weekend. :)
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