Tracon was once again and it is still the best con in Finland. Tracon is located in Tampere, which is a nice city to have a con. It is not far away from where I live, and the hotels and railway station is near the place the con is held, Tampere Hall. Tracon is also the biggest con in Finland and viewed to be the best con here. I totally agree to that statement - even though Desucon is a nice con, Sibelius Hall is kind of far away from everything and there are no grocery stores nearby than just one, which is always sold out during the con time. There are also no other eat than Kotipizza, which is always full. But back to Tracon. This time I did not have to go there by train, because my friend Tiia asked me if I wanted a ride to the con. The person who took me there is called Karudoge, and he was super nice. He had his phone connected to his car so we could listen music from Spotify. We listened Rammstein half of the journey, which was super fun, and it was probably educational for him, since he only knew two songs from the band, Du Hast and Amerika. We arrived to Tampere in Friday even though the con started at Saturday, and I slept the first night at my friend's house. My friend is called Taru and she is super nice. She and her boyfriend helped with my corset, which I had no time to test before the con. I was really tired from Friday, so I woke up later than I wanted - I woke up at 12 PM. At 4 PM I was at the con, so I was little bit late from what I imagined to be there. There were some lectures at the morning, but they were so early I did not even try to go to them. Saturday did not have any lectures that I really wanted to see, so I pretty much just hanged there. I went to see the counter hall, and for once, I bought more than one thing. I'm not really a shopper in cons, and I usually buy just one thing or nothing. I bought a headdress from Restyle, a second hand figure and a handbag from Banned. I saw the handbag first in Desucon, I but did not buy it, since the size is bit strange to me - I usually wear big handbags normally and small handbags when I'm in bars and parties. The handbag from Banned is middle sized - it is not as big as my everyday bags but bigger than the bags I wear to clubs. But I hope I find a place to wear it. I also saw a beautiful wallet there, but as I do not need a new wallet I did not buy it. At the evening I went to bar, to an evening party arranged by the con. It had nice techno music, but I did not stay there quite long - I had been wearing my corset over six hours, and as it was as tight as it could be, it started to feel bad. Also the queues to the bar were ridiculous - there were 20 meter queue at the bar sometimes. Eventually I stayed there for an hour, and went to the hotel to sleep. I woke up at 8 AM, a lot earlier than I did at Saturday. I went to the con by 11 AM and hanged there, until I went to see a lecture about older cosplayers and their experiences about cons. They were have been in cons longer than I have - for 15 and 16 years. What they talked was interesting, they talked about the very first cons in Finland and how things have changed, and also showed their old cosplay pictures. The lecture was fun, but unfortunately they ran out of time. I went to see the counter hall again, but did not buy anything. Overall the con was fun, and nice ending for the year. Next time I'm going to Desucon, if I'm not going to Desucon Frostbite.
Things that I bought:
All the things I bought.
Usako from Hoshizora no Babylon. I bought her for 50 euro, so I did pretty good deal. She's my third bunny girl figure, and she's super cute.
Handbag from Banned. I bought it for 30 euro. I really like the print, reminds me of Notre Dame.
Headdress from Restyle. I have been looking for this, since this is sold out from Restyle's website. I bought it for 25 euro, which was a pretty good price for this.
