karohemd | My National weekend

karohemd

Got up at 8, had breakfast and got ready. Picked up

dreamingchristi (who was late) and then

jonnyargles from Peterborough. The car journey up went without much hassle and we were at

puddingcat's about half two.
Sat down, had coffee/tea and chatted and finally took off to the hotel about 4ish. Arrived, checked in and met people in the bar. Among them Charles Bailey (

fionn99, the membership sec of the WW club) who I had met at ICC but not really spoken to. As it's always the case with me and people, he remembered me but I didn't remember him :o/ He's a great guy and cool to talk to.

Christi, Jenny and I then went to a pasta place for dinner which was quite good. The two ladies shared a huge chocolate bomb ice cream thing. I still blame myself for having ordered a large glass of wine and not being able to join/get one for myself.
We came back at 6:30, ready for check in, we thought (according to Pete's mail) only to find out that it was already time in. Cam miscommunication at work again, not to mention the fact that you can't really start an important event like the CoP at 6:30 on a Friday evening if people are travelling from all over the UK (and the world)...
Anyway, checked in, went upstairs to change and joined the game which mainly consisted of socialising. Met my IC childe, which was nice and I think we fit well together. The C/A bit was rather short, so I changed again, joined the Sabbat game OOC for a while to take photos.

puddingcat,

sue_b,

fionn99,

uknc, Angus and me then went off to Rockworld. Some random short guy took me onto his membership card so I got in for 2.50 which was cool. There are three rooms, the main one with icky Nu Rock, a goth/industrial one and a Classic Rock room Guess where I was most of the night ;o). One big disadvantage: of all the rooms it was the hottest one, the goth room was a fridge, the fishbowl was a sauna. I later realised a possible explanation: the higher the need for makeup, the cooler the room... It was quite cruel, they played classic after classic, a great set. Loads of people were there, as was to be expected: Sarah Adams with friends,

kdrugan,

kizzie,

themadone,

sea_cucumber, Scott, Dave and Bonnie, Ash, Phil, I can't even remember them all.

It was great fun and I lasted til about half three when my feet finally gave up. So I said goodbye to those still left and went on my way back to the hotel only to experience the worst moment of the weekend. Stupid as I was, I used a cash machine to have money for the next day and just as I wanted to put the wallet back into back pocket, a bloke came from behind and grabbed it. I held onto it and he let go for some reason and I legged it the other way. Fortunately, he didn't go after me especially as there was another bloke. I jogged back to the hotel and talked to security to let them know. They just shrugged and said something along the lines of "Yeah, quite common around here". One of them phoned the police and I left descriptions as well as I could. Wasn't really bothered as they won't catch them anyway and no harm was done but still. Well, I won't be wandering around Manchester on my own anymore, I guess...
Chatted to a couple of people and went to bed, exhausted.