Con me into reading a comic

I will admit the day did not start off too well.  Not quite sure it ended that well either.  However, here it is.

Saturday, my brother had picked up tickets for the NCComicon.  The show was held at the Durham Convention Center.  I have never been to a Comicon, so I thought why not.  It had been held at the Morrrisville Mall, but I never made it over there.

So Saturday morning, I head out to pick up my brother.  Before I leave Wendy and Ava had been up off and on since 3 am.  I get five miles from my brother's place and I hear phef, phef, phef.  I think what is that? I pull off into a driveway.  It is my rear passenger tire.  Flat!  The sad thing is I had put air in my tires just ther  day before.  So I call my brother to say I have to put on a spare.  Of course being Saturday, the tire place just a mile from his house, which would have been cheaper, was not open.  We find a tire place open.  They were really nice.  So after putting on a new tire and $60 later we are on the way.

We get to the Convention Center and park in the parking deck.  Fortunately, the parking meter was turned off.  We walk toward the building.  They have in an area the Batmobile from the television series, the Mystery Van from Scobby Doo, and the Dolorean from Back to the Future.  One can get a picture taken by the vehicles, for a donation of course.

We go inside and because my brother had pre-ordered tickets we walk right in.  We also got a goodie bag with two comics, a shirt, and little Heroclix figure.  I had never played Heroclix, but it was free.  Basically the Comicon was artists seeing their prints and vendors saying comics and toys.  It was a little different than I expected, but it was still neat to say that I have been.  I saw a few costumes, but not as many as I thought I would.  I think on Sunday they were having a costume parade.  It was interesting to see the people making purchases.

For lunch we thought we would see what was around.  We thought about walking, but decided to drive around.  As we were leaving the parking deck, I noticed there was now a guy standing at the gate.  Now they decided to charge incoming vehicles.  I think great, my brother says maybe we can find free parking.  So we head off and not knowing Durham drive around a bit.  We do not see much.  We had placed an Afghani place, I think the sign said, on the way to the Convention Center.  My brother said let's try there.  It was pretty good.  I do not have much experience with foreign food.  I was worried I would not like it, but I was able to eat it.  It was almost like Indian food, of course I have limited experience eating Indian food.

After our meal, we leave the car in the restaurant's parking lot and walk back to the Convention Center.  It was about a fifteen minute walk.  Since we have the wristband we walk right in.  Which is good because the line to get in was long.

We attend a few of the panels.  One was about showing film genres.  It was pretty interesting.  The guy was talking about 35 mm films and finding prints from the studios and how everything was going digital.  The other panel was a discussion with a comic book artist.  I had heard of some of his work, the titles, but not really read any of it.  It was interesting because the people on the panel would mention something and the audience would nod heads and ooh and ahh.  While I had no idea what they were talking about.

I get back that afternoon to the house because Wendy and I have to drop off Joy and Ava at the church.  They were having free childcare for two hours.  So rush to that.  Then we went to Walmart and had donuts and coffee/hot chocolate at Dunkin Donuts.  It is the little things.

So I guess the day was not that bad, hectic, of course, but not bad.