Day 0 - Lines weren't bad.  When badges started being handed out, it was real quick.  Checked into hotel.  Crappy view.  Got my reserved block seating ticket for the Masquerade.

Day 1 - Opening ceremonies was rather blah.  The voice school that usually comes, didn't.  Laura Bailey is hot.  The spin tradition, that began at last year's opening ceremony, continued this year.  Got creator's AMV ticket. Went in line for CLAMP panel.  CLAMP panel was pretty bleh.  It was nice to see and hear them in person, but all the questions sucked.  Only one that was interesting was a question about Fay and Kuro indicating a want to see some yaoi between them.  Went to exhibit hall afterwards and bought a bunch of figures as I made a quick run through the vendors.  Went to AMVs.  Having creator's tickets, I didn't have to wait in any lines at all and was allowed to go take a seat right away.  A Mac crashed and ended up holding up the start of the AMVs for a little while.  The marital art school that comes every year did an exhibition while we waited.  Signal to Noise was my favorite and it ended up being voted as Best of Show.  Naruto Ball Z, while it was good, should have been in comedy.  Comedy wasn't as good as last year.  The Ultimate Anime Showdown was my favorite.  AMtv was also mediocre.  The one that used Count of Monte Cristo got my vote.  The video shown after the contest was also pretty good.

Day 2 - Wandered around exhibit hall, bought stuff.  Went to AX Idol.  This year, Idol was "Hollywood"-ed to the extreme.  The normal judges from Bang Zoom! were joined this year by staff members from American Idol and the Simpsons.  Lance Henriksen(The main character of Millennium. Also the voice of Kerchak from Tarzan.) also showed up as a special guest.  There was also a clip of the auditions.  The voice actors actually did dubbing on stage for their portion of the contest, which was a poor decision in my opinion.  I actually liked the monologues.  They were a lot more fun to watch.  Afterwards, watched a little Basilisk to waste some time until the debut of the Cromartie High School live action.  Originally, I was going to attend the Yocuza concert, but once I found that Cromartie was showing, I went there instead.

Day 3 - Met up with friends that had to wait for Masquerade tickets and got to personally take a pic of a very nice Yoruichi cosplayer.  Went to the Atsuko Nakajima panel and then went back to the line to wait with friends.  They ended up getting red tickets, and I got 2 of them just so I could give them away later.  Wandered around after and then went to wait in line for seating.  While waiting I turned on my DS and offered my tickets to the first person to find me.  Later, my cousin and friends joined me and got a hold of two more tickets.  Both of those ended going to a guy named aaron.  Masquerade actually started three whole minutes early.  The two favorites of the night were the Yatta guys and the True Power of the Clow.  The Yatta skit started with two huge Pocky boxes coming onto the stage.  That itself got a huge pop, but the pop became even greater when they revealed themselves and the Yatta song started.  The True Power of the Clow started with Clow Reed and the four element cards coming onto the stage.  After the set up, the punchline came and the SUMMONING OF CAPTAIN PLANET began.  Clow disrobed and revealed a Captain Planet costume underneath.  Seeing one of my favorite internet memes acted out was awesome.  Ninendon'ts, the Final Fantasy VI skit, and the Resident Evil skit get honorable mentions.  The one thing I thought sucked was that they didn't tell us who played who after each group finished.

Day 4 - Checked out.  Wandered around and bought stuff.  After the exhibit hall closed, went to the charity auction.  AX had it's own water this year, and most of the GoHs signed a couple bottles.  These bottles sold for about $40-50.  The auctioneer's own water, which was more than two-thirds gone, was also auctioned off because of the heckling crowd.  The bottle was signed by the auctioneer before he let it go for the final sale.  I bid and lost on two items.  An AX VIP package and a Maya(Tenjho Tenge) color sketch.  First one out the door on both, and was completely and utterly squashed by other bidders.  After, they set up for the awards, and they were just quickly read off.  They then began set up for the Closing Ceremonies.  They were delayed from starting because they were waiting for one of the GoH, but ultimately they couldn't make it.  Closing ceremonies started and finished without anything worth mentioning.  Well, except maybe that attendance was somewhere around 41,000.  About $20,000 was raised for the new charity, quite small compared to last year's $67,000 for City of Hope.

Anime Expo loot:

Gundam Seed -  1/100 Model Destiny
Naruto - Sakura DX figure
Ah! My Goddess - Peorth figure
Bleach - Matsumoto and Yoruichi figures + Kenpachi and Byakuya plushies
Mario - Yoshi plushie
Trading figures - Phoenix Wright, Maya Fey, some Star Ocean girl, and a Batmobile(yes really, a fucking small Batmobile that doesnt even have real wheels)
Weapon - Airsoft shotgun
Art - trace table
Hentai doujinshi - 4 Final Fantasy, 1 Fate/Stay Night, 1 Bleach, 1 Fruits Basket, 1 Naruto, 1 Onegai Teacher, and 1 Grenadier/Lone Wolf and Cub(My favorite of the ones I bought.  Crossovers are awesome.)
 

Prediction:  AX 07 will fail.  Fail hard.  So hard, AX 08 could possibly not happen at all.  Long Beach will be a disaster.  I can feel it.  See you there.  >_>

Best female cosplayer:  Yoruichi - Hot.

Best male cosplayer:  Barret - My friend. *creepy smirk* (Really, though, nice job.)

Funny thing was, both of these were taken by me.  I actually took a handful of picture myself this year.  Though, the bulk of it is still is taken by Mr. Domo Photographer.  All photos were taken in high resolution(not high quality though...) on a Fuji FinePix A345 this year.

Pictures

Credit:  Most of these were taken by my cousin. (The Domo photographer)