Five hours of 16th Century Italian court dancing is painful.  Feet are sore, knees are stiff, I am tired.  However, it was still good, as I got to practice dances I'm pretty familar with, try to get down that one that I'm not, and also learned a new one.  For anyone who cares, here is the breakdown:

Court dances I know
Bella Giolosa
Castellana
Pavane
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So this weekend was the start of the Christmas party season.  First up, the Guilde of St. George Holiday Party.  However, before we get there, we'll start with our early afternoon.

Molly and I decided to visit OTB at Brookfield Mall where he is making a guest-appearance as Santa Claus.  And we didn't just stop by and wave to him from outside the ( Read more... )

From the Silver Leaf Renaissance Faire website:

Travel back in time and join us somewhere in the Middle Ages or if you prefer, the Renaissance. Queen Arianna invites you to join our villagers in a wonderful celebration with games, feasting, daring feats, sword fighting, music and shopping.

Yep...Queen Arianna.  Oh, and the Middle Ages and the ( Read more... )

Still packing for Stronghold. I'm taking a half-day tomorrow, and then going down to Elkhorn with Molly, and when she's done with work, we'll head down to the castle.

The car is jam-packed. It would be fine if we weren't bringing all the St. George linen, cutlery, plates, candlabras, pitchers, and Gatorade jug. That is basically filling the trunk ( Read more... )

Looking at NOAA, the weather this weekend for the Return to Camelot Medieval Harvest Fayre is:

Saturday


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This is more of a placeholding note than anything else.  I will at some point here (ideally this weekend) write about not just closing weekend, but my overall experience as a first-year cast member.  Given the likely length of it, I'll probably just throw something on a Geocities site, ala OTB's Privy Council site.  However, it's been like 4 days ( Read more... )

Well, so much for trying to keep this darn blog updated with anything other than faire stuff.  I guess it’s just going to have to wait until after the season is done, which is this coming weekend.  Then, I’ll finally get my life back, and hopefully be able to start updating this thing with other bits.

On to the review:

Saturday

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Yes, I'm actually bothering to update my LiveJournal.  I've gotten away from doing it for a while now.  First of all, my life has been so consumed with Faire right now, that I've really done nothing else besides it for quite a while.  The weekdays are usually just a chance for me to recuperate for the next Faire weekend.  And that's another reason ( Read more... )

All right, so it's been a while since I bothered to update this. Not like anyone is waiting with breathless anticipation for my blog. There really is no pertinent information to be dispensed...just mindless drivel, which I hope is somewhat entertaining.

First of all, a great big congratulations to Carl and Julie who got engaged last night. It was ( Read more... )

Just got done watching The 13th Warrior this evening.  For my money, it's a very under-rated movie.  Well, I don't think it's so much under-rated as it is overlooked.  I vaguely remember it coming out in the theaters, and not really having a desire to see it.  I think I picked it up as a used movie from Blockbuster (buy 2, get 1 free) just as a ( Read more... )