We Take Ourselves With Us

Going into day four at FE, we were feeling the burn.  The littlest superheroes in our bunch needed some re-energizing to make the trek back for another full FE experience. Luckily, Cora's is always there to save us on day four!  Year after year, we walk in exhausted and leave filled with insane breakfast delights.  Here's Cora's in a nutshell.  Harper: "I don't know. I want eggs Benedict, but I also want a crepe." Me: "Did you see the Bene-Crepes? It's an omelet wrapped in a crepe covered with Benedict sauce." Harper: "Score!" Completely filled with carbs of every family--pancakes, crepes, toast, potatoes, oatmeal--we followed the world's coolest hoodies to FE.  Seriously, a Princess Leia hoodie with the cinnabuns?  Love! Harper was in her finest Wonder Woman cape-T, Penn had two t-shirts.  The first half of the day, he wore his Delorean blueprint.  And, if he had a buck for every time someone asked h...

Let's start at the end.  Arrayed in the cubbies above our beds at the mod Hyatt are our purchases from Friday.  You may notice a bit of an Adventure Time theme ... you wouldn't be wrong.  You may notice a lot of Pop Vinyl ... you wouldn't be wrong.  So, how did we get here? I am the breakfast gatherer at FE.  This year, we switched it up from our usual Fairmont and stayed at the Hyatt because I grew a little tired of the limited food choices in that area.  Our hotel has a Starbucks on site, which made breakfast pretty darn easy.  So, filled with baked goods, oatmeal and latte, we set off.  Ned proudly wore his Jayne hat , Lumpy Space Princess glasses, Ice King tattoo, and "I Am Groot" shirt.  Cosplayers, beware! We had learned on Thursday that the only way to get the Fan Expo special LEGO set was to get one of the ~200 tickets distributed each day at 10 am as soon as the Expo opened.  That meant rushing to t...