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I honestly do not say this very often, mostly because I'm a horribly negative, pessimistic person... but I had a fabulous weekend.
Saturday was PotC3, which I wrote about on Saturday.
Sunday, we got up OMG Very Early, in garb, and drove through the rain to Muskogee - without getting lost for once - and arrived five minutes before the gate opened, and in plenty of time to meet up with Captain's RP friend S and S's girlfriend J.
Now, as some of you may remember, I am rather shy and dislike meeting new people to the point where I physically get ill and dread even going anywhere where I may have to talk to someone I do not know. I am peoplephobic or something, I'm sure.
J? So the opposite. Within two minutes she's telling me all about her and S, and pointing out her "friend" who is apparently a dirty old man, but very funny, and who will probably make an attempt to grope me when we meet because that's what he does, and he has a friend who is even older and dirtier. Cedric, the dirty old man, did put his hand on my back as he flirted, but forewarned is fore-armed and all that and that wasn't enough to make me panic (although I did crowd Captain's side the moment Cedric began talking to us so that could have been sending out some "DO NOT TOUCH" clues or something). Cedric, by the way, is a bard and part of one of the Renfest acts - the Bedlam Bards.
J continued to point out other people as we walked through the gates, and Captain was relieved to see that I was not giving him the look of "Ok, I've said hello, can we leave now please?" that he sometimes gets when I have to meet people he knows. We had agreed if I was uncomfortable we would make our excuses and wander away, instead we stayed with J and S until just before we left for the day. Very nice couple, would like to meet them again at next year's fair, or maybe if we go down to the Texas faire in October.
Where was I?
Oh, yes, J's friends. So I asked her how long she'd known these people, thinking they were buddies who just happened to be performers... Nope. She meet them last weekend when she was at the faire. And several of them remembered her by name.
Fifteen minutes into the day, King Henry VIII and his entourage stop us because J was walking on S's left and "A lady on the left is no lady, indeed" and the King wanted S to apologize to J and kiss her hand. Of course, he didn't feel S kissed her properly, so he offered to show S how to do it. On my hand.
Captain said my face turned the same color as my hair. And I was giggling.
This hand kiss took AGES, lots of little nibbles and things. When we ran into the King on Monday and he asked if my hand needed kissed, Captain snagged it and kissed it before the King could. Again with the red face and giggling, and the King laughed.
We loved the faire so much, we decided to keep our hotel room an extra night and go back on Monday instead of coming home.
All in all, I saw the Bedlam Bards perform five times (and the second day they remembered us from the day before as J's friends, and were impressed we came to watch both the clean and the dirty shows). We had lunch with the King on Monday (which would probably have been much more fun if I wasn't about to pass out through most of it due to heat and dehydration). I saw the cutest joust ever from our seats at the luncheon - because of the rain, they couldn't risk the horses in the mud so they forced two men to run after the knights with coconuts.
Monday was also the Jaws-a-thon on tv so I managed to catch most of all four Jaws movies that night after the faire.
Tuesday we came home to find that the house was still intact, nothing missing, no dead animals. Always a bonus there.
And - most importantly - Captain and I have decided it's time to go ahead and start looking for a house to buy. I called realtors today. God, I'm starting to feel like an adult.
Saturday was PotC3, which I wrote about on Saturday.
Sunday, we got up OMG Very Early, in garb, and drove through the rain to Muskogee - without getting lost for once - and arrived five minutes before the gate opened, and in plenty of time to meet up with Captain's RP friend S and S's girlfriend J.
Now, as some of you may remember, I am rather shy and dislike meeting new people to the point where I physically get ill and dread even going anywhere where I may have to talk to someone I do not know. I am peoplephobic or something, I'm sure.
J? So the opposite. Within two minutes she's telling me all about her and S, and pointing out her "friend" who is apparently a dirty old man, but very funny, and who will probably make an attempt to grope me when we meet because that's what he does, and he has a friend who is even older and dirtier. Cedric, the dirty old man, did put his hand on my back as he flirted, but forewarned is fore-armed and all that and that wasn't enough to make me panic (although I did crowd Captain's side the moment Cedric began talking to us so that could have been sending out some "DO NOT TOUCH" clues or something). Cedric, by the way, is a bard and part of one of the Renfest acts - the Bedlam Bards.
J continued to point out other people as we walked through the gates, and Captain was relieved to see that I was not giving him the look of "Ok, I've said hello, can we leave now please?" that he sometimes gets when I have to meet people he knows. We had agreed if I was uncomfortable we would make our excuses and wander away, instead we stayed with J and S until just before we left for the day. Very nice couple, would like to meet them again at next year's fair, or maybe if we go down to the Texas faire in October.
Where was I?
Oh, yes, J's friends. So I asked her how long she'd known these people, thinking they were buddies who just happened to be performers... Nope. She meet them last weekend when she was at the faire. And several of them remembered her by name.
Fifteen minutes into the day, King Henry VIII and his entourage stop us because J was walking on S's left and "A lady on the left is no lady, indeed" and the King wanted S to apologize to J and kiss her hand. Of course, he didn't feel S kissed her properly, so he offered to show S how to do it. On my hand.
Captain said my face turned the same color as my hair. And I was giggling.
This hand kiss took AGES, lots of little nibbles and things. When we ran into the King on Monday and he asked if my hand needed kissed, Captain snagged it and kissed it before the King could. Again with the red face and giggling, and the King laughed.
We loved the faire so much, we decided to keep our hotel room an extra night and go back on Monday instead of coming home.
All in all, I saw the Bedlam Bards perform five times (and the second day they remembered us from the day before as J's friends, and were impressed we came to watch both the clean and the dirty shows). We had lunch with the King on Monday (which would probably have been much more fun if I wasn't about to pass out through most of it due to heat and dehydration). I saw the cutest joust ever from our seats at the luncheon - because of the rain, they couldn't risk the horses in the mud so they forced two men to run after the knights with coconuts.
Monday was also the Jaws-a-thon on tv so I managed to catch most of all four Jaws movies that night after the faire.
Tuesday we came home to find that the house was still intact, nothing missing, no dead animals. Always a bonus there.
And - most importantly - Captain and I have decided it's time to go ahead and start looking for a house to buy. I called realtors today. God, I'm starting to feel like an adult.
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