June 17, 2007
-
My First Lilies
Fabulous. I seem to have brought the good weather genie with me because except for one rain shower and about an hour a day of just too hot, the weather was great (if warm and humid). The spot we camped at almost always had a lovely breeze off the lake, and the nights were quite cool enough to sleep well. I don’t think we ever got started doing anything before 10:00, which is when the classes I wanted to take generally started, and the fighting the guys wanted to do also got started. Took a draping class, a gothic fitted dress class, and a kinda silk banner painting class. The actual instructor got sick, so we got a substitute who gave us tips but didn’t give us the hands-on we were supposed to have. Interesting none the less. The Ladies of the Rose tourney was great – Mahdi and his man-at-arms (could be squire by now) Damon fought in my name, and Mahdi made the semi-finals. Damon had a fabulous day as well and was seriously considered for most-chivalrous fighter. Mahdi beat him out for it.
Daffydd represented the Shire of Brad Leah and the Order of the Rose in the Champions tourney, and he also made the semi-finals. He was fighting well enough to win, I think, but he couldn’t get traction and kept slipping down the hill on which they held the tourney (stupid to hold the tourney there). Made for some spectacular deaths though! We went to a special Roman feast on Thursday night – it was a prize that Daffydd won some years ago. The woman offering the prize then moved out of kingdom and didn’t hook up with him until this year. It was a feast for four, so I got to go along and so did Alexander. Very good food, although it was served a little slowly. We gave it up and packed everything up Friday afternoon. Then we drove to the other side of Kansas City, got a hotel and went to bed early. Alexander and I had to be back in Dallas for a not-a-reception-after-the-wedding dinner party for Joaquim and Amanda, who got married this past Monday. Today has been cleaning out my car into the garage, then cleaning out the garage. Now, I’m working on laundry and cleaning up the house from the preparation-for-Lilies frenzied mess I left last week. Going back to work tomorrow should be somewhat restful!
