B for Book Sales!

It is currently 8:50 PM as I'm typing this! Now I know I should've done this sooner but I kept flip-flopping my thoughts as to whether this is what I wanted to blog about but HERE I GO!

As you can see, B IS FOR BOOK SALES!!!!!!!!!!
In Arlington County, northern VA county 10 - 15 min away from DC, they hold two book sales a year at the Central Library which is their big main library. I never knew that they held book sales until last year ( which was around October 20 - 23) when I just happened to go to the library to return a book. Thank God I brought my wallet with me to the library or else I would have missed out on such awesome deals!!

The book sale last year was huge! It was def hard to find stuff because so many people were around and looking too but the things I did grab definitely made my day.

Now that's Yu Yu Hakusho volume 1 & 2, Harry Potter 1 - 2 & 6 - 7.

Those were the prices of the books. The green one has a $2 price sticker and the red one has a $3 price sticker. Now, I don't know if you noticed but those were the hard copies of the Harry Potter books!!!! $5 for the last two books! Greatest steal of my life!

They had a lot of things at the book sale. Lots of kids books, reference books, travel books, cookbooks, old DVD's and games. Not too much manga but okay enough. The next book sale is happening April 12 - 15th. Maybe I'll do a double post for that day; one about my letter of the day and the next about my book haul. :)

Have you gone used book hunting lately?? What have you grabbed?

First Day! All About Art

Good afternoon!
Today starts the A to Z blogging challenge!! I'm very excited and nervous to start this blogging journey. Excited because I'll have done so many blog entries by the end of the month and nervous because what if I can't find anything to write about on a certain letter? Like X or Q?!?!?!

Andrew and I on the metro

Anyways, I'm going to start the letter A with my adventure at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC. Now this adventure started on March 17th so I'm like two weeks late about writing it but I wanted to save this post for this date. Now on March 16th, the video game exhibit officially opened up to the public and it's open until September 30th. The first three days of the exhibit had video games you could play with in the courtyard, an 'interactive video game', some arts and crafts where you make pixel works of either Mario or the Pixel Mario flower and then they also had a photoshoot area.

One of the arts and crafts tables.

The interactive real life video game. Can't tell but the guys in green are throwing balls at a little girl and she has to dodge them.

In this part the little girl has to jump over these stick things.

 Then we head up to the 3rd floor where the actual exhibit was being held.

Telling the player about the controls.

Now, I kind of expected more out of the exhibit. I thought there was going to be an actual display with 80 of the greatest video games but I did not see any mention of that. The exhibit is also pretty small so I wouldn't fly in from California just to see it. If you live in the area, it's worth checking out because it's free but if you don't then don't bother making trip because it's not too interactive and not too much information/art on video games.

April's A to Z Challenge!

Hello all!
It's been a long time but here I am! I'm going to be doing the A to Z blogging challenge starting tomorrow. It's a challenge where you blog everyday (besides Sundays. Tomorrow is the only Sunday you can blog) based on whatever letter it is that day. Tomorrow is the letter A, april 2nd is about the letter B, april 3rd is the letter C and so on. Now my entire alphabet challenge will, hopefully, be based on my adventures in DC/Northern VA area. So for an example, tomorrow I will be blogging about my Art trip in DC.
I hope I get through this! April looks like it will be a busy month for me!
Oh and here is the link for the A to Z challenge website!
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If you join, let me know! ;)

Katsucon, Mos Def & Honey Pig

It's been a busy weekend! Fri, Sat and Sunday I went to Katsucon with my friend, Bridget. For those who don't know, Katsucon is an anime convention that was held in the National Harbor in Maryland at the Gaylord Hotel. It's a three day event that starts on Friday and lasts until Sunday afternoon. Even though people dress up in outfits from anime, there were also people that dressed up from Power Rangers, Disney movies and popular web-comics.
This is going to be more of a picture post today! Sorry for any sideway pics, I don't know why it's like that when it's straight up in my picture folder. >_<

National Harbor, MD.

Took a lunch break and ended up here at Art Whino. Amazing pieces, def worth checking out. 

outside the hotel

another outside shot

Cute buildings inside the hotel. That one was empty though.

The dealer's room where merchandise was sold

Fav Fionna cosplay.

The Palmon plushie was $40. :(

The Video Game room. Mainly consoles and then some rhythm arcade games.

Favorite cosplay. 

Bridget cosplaying as Jane from Homestuck.

Monday Night. 

I got tickets to the Mos Def concert at the 930 Club in DC. They were $35 and I thought, why not!? The show was supposed to start at 8:30 (he got there around 9:45 though -___-) and it ended around 12 (since it started at 10.) He's extremely good live, he has a great voice and there was really good vibes throughout the whole show. 

Dope. Made during the show.

Beautiful.

 After the concert, we drove back home and we were both hungry so we decided to stop by Honey Pig in Annandale, VA. It's  a 24 hour Korean BBQ with friendly service. Andrew got the pork and onions to grill and I got seafood tofu soup. Yummy ending to a great night.

Empty at 1 in the morning. 

Dinner of Champions.

Last pic of the night.