Ok. . . so picture yourself sitting on the floor in your room in the middle of the night and you get this call from your friend begging for a favor to do an emergancy cosplay. . . and there is a skit involved AND you have never seen the anime AND it is a day before the convention. . .
I was sitting on the floor of my room at 11:30pm and i get this call from my friend asking if I will be Ayame (hope I spelled that right) in there Fruits Basket skit for the Anime Vegas Masquerade on Saturday. . . I hesitently accepted. . . I have never seen Fruits Basket and had no idea what I was getting into. . . My Friend flew to my house (she was an hour away) picked me up and flew back for a fitting. . . thank god I fit in the costume. . . There was an emergancy pratice and everything was ok. . . Saturday rolled around and we went in for the "Questioning and Answering" part of the masquerade and we did ok. . . I was really nervous. . . The Skit part rolled around and we did fantastic and then Sarah (the seamstress) and our group won for best group craftsmenship! it was so cool!

This next part was added 2006
So if winning best craftmanship one year is cool, winning it twice was amazing!!!! Thanks Sarah!

Anime Vegas 2005