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More sketches from my U.S. Trip!

It’s obvious, I hope!

A commission I sketched on the flight from LA to Orlando, inked in Florida and colored at home.

Sloppy sketches.

More Sketchdumps, finally! I’ll post the sketches I did in the U.S. first!

Drew this while being drunk on a roomparty at FC. Lots of other peoples characters are here. Mark and Henrieke also drew some of the sketches on this page.

I forgot where I drew this. It’s random characters mostly, except the blue-eyed lemur character Henrieke invented for me!

More less-good stuff.

Once we got up, we realized that we should’ve done more packing the day before. We had 2 backpacks, a bordcase, a small travel bag, a huge suitcase, a huge travel bag and 2 boxes trimmed down to the maximum luggage size and still it was almost impossible to fir everything.
In total our luggage was about 100 kilos and we had a hard time putting everything into Chris’ car when leaving the house. In the end everything worked out fine though and we said goodbye one last time.
The first flight seemed to be really fast aswell as the stop in Washington. The second flight was about 8 hours long and ended in Amsterdam for Henrieke. KLM was bitching about my overweight luggage, which really pissed me off since they only allowed 20kg (43lbs) of carryon luggage with an overluggage rate of 15€ per kilo and also only allowed 10kg of hand luggage. I’m definitely going to avoid KLM in the future.
Anyway, Henriekes parents picked her up, brought me fabulous cheese (thanks again!) and stayed with me until I had to go to the gate. Saying goodbye was sad of course, but I also looked forward to home! At the airport, my mom and my nieces picked me up and made my day, despite my huge jetlag.

The only thing left to do is saying thanks to everyone who made this trip possible! In 5 1/2 weeks, we met so many awesome people and saw so many places, it was simply amazing!

All the places we’ve been to.

We didn’t do alot in the morning except packing, sleeping and getting breakfast from Publix. In the afternoon Torey joined us, and in the evening we went to Outback (I wasn’t being pushy at all to go there ) with Chris, Marc, Zeke, John and Torey. Soooo good!

Zeke, John and Chris.

After drawing alot, we headed back to Chris’ place where Lisa and Spain joined us. We watched “We’re back!” on Laserdisc first, which was hilarious! That movie is so completely random and pointless, and watching it with these guys made it even better.
To top that, we watched “Cartoon Allstars to the rescue”, a 30 minute long trippy anti-drug cartoon from the 80s. Definitely a must-see for everyone! Some YouTube videos later, everyone had to leave and it was time to say goodbye to most of the people.

At about 11 Chris, Henrieke, me, Torey and Chris went to Cocoa beach and enjoyed a fresh breeze.

Seeing a pelican from that close was cool!

Also a dolphin!

We also got Tyler and Trigger out for some photos and of course got funny reactions from people.

Tyler sure was excited about that beach!

It’s cooler in the shade!

Kids were excited about both of them!

After a quick lunch at Subway we made our was to Kennedy Space Center, and before we even entered we saw the most awesome Armadillo. He didn’t mind people at all.

That day was full of wildlife!

The Space Center itself was awesome aswell, we saw rockets from all decades and lots of other spacecraft.

Sovjet Spacecraft looks stylish. Photo by Chris.

Since I’m mostly excited about space shuttles, I was excited about seeing the replica of a shuttle in lifesize where we could even walk in.

Shuttle with Tank and Boosters.

The shuttle launch experience ride wasn’t bad either, and the gift shop was surprisingly awesome. I got a big plush space shuttle.

Way after the official park closing time we went to FPS to hang out a bit more with Mark. After the show we heard the really loud sonic boom from the shuttle, which was landing in Cape Canaveral at 10:20pm.
Back at Chris’ place we watched “The fox and the hound” with Marc and Torey.

We went to Epcot with Lisa, Chris and John and met up with Richard, Randy, Lon, Zack and Mark.

The Spaceship Earth reflected in Chris’ sunglasses.

Until lunch we walked around at the world showcase. The first thing to do was of course seeing the fabulous 3 Caballeros ride in the mexican pavillon, which was animated by Eric Goldberg! We ended up having lunch at the German Biergarten. It was truly amazing, the whole staff was german, and the food was amazingly authentic. It felt weird eating german food in the US, but at the same time it was really cool. They even had a live band playing cheesy german songs!

German Biergarten restaurant.

Zack, Mark, Lon, Henrieke, John and Lisa enjoying good german food.

Being stuffed, we walked around in the stores and enjoyed the well-done theming. The japanese pavillon was nice as always and the other ones too of course.

This was – of course – taken by Henrieke!

It was a wonderful day for a polarizer.

Well okay the polarizer overdid the contrast a bit. These are obviously Thylacine stripes in the sky.

Duck!

Other rides we did were Journey into your imagination and Spaceship earth. They had a cool new ride in the Innoventions center where you could design your own rollercoaster and ride it in the simulator.

That was so cool!

I skipped Mission Space this time since it was a pretty awful experience last year and ended up making fun of the so-called art in the “Art of Disney” Store with Lisa while they others took the ride.
For Dinner we went to Chevys, a nearby mexcican restaurant where Moon and Torey joined. The food was really good, but I’m just not used to having such heavy food in the evening. We had a little artjam there which we continued at Lons place.

Lisa picked us up around noon and we had a really nice breakfast/lunch at 5&Diner, a 50s themed diner with perfect theming (except the plasma TV).
Then we spent quite some time looking around at Barnes&Noble and went to Lisas place afterwards to draw cartoons. Lon invited us to go to the Osceola County Fair, so we went to Johns place first and saw a wild raccoon!

The fair was pretty crowded and everything was deep fried. We ended up having typical fair food like a corn dog (sausage dipped in several layers of corn dough and deep fried), mini-donuts (deep fried), and funnel cake (deep fried batter).

Mark went to have some fried gator on a stick but they were out of it.

When all people arrived it was Henrieke, Lon, Marc, Lisa, Randy, John, Zeke, Jordan, Chris and me there.

In order to pick up some screws from Home Depot, we took Chris’ and Gerrets bikes and went to the Waterford Lakes center. We didn’t find the Home Depot though, but ended up looking at other stores. Chris joined us later and we got some art supplies from Joanns.
For dinner we met up with Adam, Val, Arito, Trigger, Moon, Chris and Marc (mostly Artists/Costume Builders). It was a nice ethiopean restaurant, and a new experience since I never had ethiopean food before. We got to draw at least a bit and both Henrieke and me got to trade with Val.
Later that night we went to Independent Bar in downtown Orlando, Henrieke stayed at Chris’ place though. Trigger and Val had their costumes with them, which people there obviously enjoyed. It was moderately crowded there, the music wasn’t too much my taste though. Still it was a nice evening, despite the Bud light.

We made some pasta for lunch and roasted some marshmallows later.

Chris and Gerret introduced us to the american tradition of roasting marshmallows.

Also we drew and watched Star Wars on Laserdisc using Chris’ amazing FullHD Beamer in the evening.

Spain picked us up around noon and drove us to SeaWorld, where we met up with Lisa. While watching a cute kangaroo on a stage we had lunch, and Spain had to leave for work again. We had some good times there and got to ride the new rollercoaster, Manta. It was pretty awesome, since you face the ground and it makes the ride feel completely different. The pet show was a must-see again aswell. Here are photos from our day:

Awesome octopus.

Feeding stingrays was fun as always

Dolphins!

Manta, the new rollercoaster.

The themed part of SeaWorld from across the pond.

Henrieke and Lisa feeding ducks.

Afterwards Lisa took us to a Lowe’s (hardware store) where we picked up some costume supplies, then she took us back to Chris’ place, who made some amazing Crepes. Matt also joined the Crepe madness!

Went to publix, then Erin picked us up and we went to see the Ripleys museum, then minigolfing at “Pirates Cove”. It was located on International Drive, where alot of other attractions are located including alot more themed minigolf courses.

Ripleys museum. Note that the whole building is tilted, but the wide-angle lens compensated that on the right side of the image which makes it look even weirder.

Henrieke, showing how it has to be done.

A truly piratish minigolf course.

Aaron in the front, Henrieke in the back.

We spent he evening with Spain, Lisa, Gerret and Sly. Lisa made some wonderful pizza and we watched emperors new groove
had an artjam after that.

Got up at about 1, then at some point we went to publix to buy some groceries and to an Italian where I got a Pepperoni roll. Henrieke got to try out Katamari Damacy, and we finally got some work done. We did some orders for stuff we wanted to take back to europe, and I tried playing Portal. Since I didn’t feel like buying the Game, Chris showed us the ending which finally made me get alot of Internet jokes.
We had some Frenchbread with Brie for dinner, Chris showed us his torch and both Henrieke and me tried out his Kangaroo jumping boots (fun).
Watched some more Looney Tunes on his enormous wall and went to bed at 2.

14.02.

Chris took us to the mall, where we looked around in cool stores. Also we saw a 3D-HDTV! It was pretty amazing.
We had lunch at Firehouse-Subs and John picked us up for FPS, where we spent the rest of the day. Randy made some really good food and we had alot of fun there!

In the morning we went to 2 thrift stores with Chris, I got some neat Hawaii Shirts! Then to Jeffs Place, we also met Robin there. Jeff showed us his workroom and costumes (he builds costumes for a living), then we went off for another thrift store, then to Big!Lots, then to a nice italian restaurant for lunch.

Jeff browsing through an amazing selection of weird shirts.

Back at Jeffs place we hung out, watched stupid YouTube videos, then went back to Chris’ place and played some pop’n'music.
I finally got my Camera repaired before Lisa arrived! Watched some videos from the Convention while Chris was preparing Fruity Pebbles Treats, Scott and Tim (from Australia) also came over and we watched the Goofy movie! A really good movie, you need to be into american pop culture though to get it at all.

Slept really long, then we went to get some cheesesteak sub with Mark and Gerret. Watched Trainspotting which was really weird. Henrieke worked on a commission in the meanwhile.
Watched Gerret playing some Mass Effect 2 (amazing game).
In the evening we went over to Johns place, sketched a bit and then went to the same texmex place we’ve been to last year with John and Michael.