Getting Ready For A Transformation!
That Would Be The San Diego Convention Center!
Yesterday morning Tina and I went past Downtown San Diego on the way to my folks to 'farm out' our bird as we did not want him to stay home by himself while we attended the upcoming Comic Con International.
As we were learned a few years ago, it is best to preview our travel route to the San Diego Convention Center a few days before the start of the Con as sometimes the route is being worked on by the street department which would cause us delays to getting there early to find underground parking before that is filled to capacity!
One of the worst things about the Comic Con, and there are very bad things about it, is that we are among the 125,000 other attendees that possibly need to find parking!
We've already checked to make sure the San Diego Padres DO NOT have a day game at the Ballpark next door, as a couple of years ago all the baseball fans had taken up all the parking in the immediate area for their ballgame! It was NO fun lugging a 'long box' of comics to the far parking, even though it was a fantastic 'flip deal' we made that very first day!
We are sharing some photos just taken yesterday morning in this blog post in the right column.
The San Diego Convention Center has two 'wings' which still isn't enough room to get all the people that want to get in to the Comic Con! You can tell from the photos that it is a large 2 1/2 story building and runs Eastward a loooong ways!
There isn't enough parking at the SD Convention Center, but for out of townies the Comic Con shuttle bus works wonders by going to many major hotels surrounding the area.
Talking about room, the exhibit hall(s) feature 525,701 sq ft of room! It is almost like Disneyland in that you really can't see it all in one day anymore!
That square footage number does not take in the giant halls for programs or the other large rooms for smaller programs.
The San Diego Comic Con International convention is now the largest convention held at the SD Convention Center. That title used to be held by 'AA'!
As for the last photo on the right, Tina and I saw 'The Dark Knight' Film Friday, so this weekend I'm going around in different Batman T-Shirts as seen in the last photo!
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