I went to Pennsic with 3 goals: lots of dance, lots of bardic, lots of archery. I succeeded at the first; the others, not so much ( Read more... )

Pikeman's Pleasure was June 4. The theme was "The Last Days of Camelot" which made one of my favourite events even better ( Read more... )

Edit: I wrote 2/3 of this message soon afterwards. Then real life hit and I just discovered a mostly written, un-posted message. oops!Pikeman’s Pleasure was Saturday June 5. It was the 20th anniversary of the event. I can’t remember how many of them I’ve been to. I went for the first time in 2000. I remember Pikeman’s 13 with its theme of ( Read more... )

I always begin these Pennsic wrap up posts by saying, it was a different Pennsic. After 5 Pennsics, I have (finally!) come to the conclusion that they are all different. If this one had a theme, it would be “socialization ( Read more... )

Was Pikeman's a good event? Yes. Was it the best Pikeman's Pleasure that I've ever attended? No. Am I glad that I went to Pikeman's? Yes. I think, I might give it a 7.5/10 ( Read more... )

Home from Pennsic. We got in Saturday at 12:45. It was 1:30 when we finished unpacking the car ( Read more... )

Saturday, June 7 was Pikeman's. We didn’t find crash space - partly because we couldn’t find a babysitter - so we ended up day tripping ( Read more... )

It was the second year for the event and we are 2 for 2 for our attendance. Getting up at 7 AM after a lousy night sleep with a crying baby to drive 2.5 hours to do archery in the rain on the first day of my period sounds like a recipe for disaster for any event. But we'd made arrangements for my parents to keep the Pumpkin and a friend to keep ( Read more... )

It was a fabulous weekend. We stayed over Friday night at Helen’s cottage, Windsong, which was as gorgeous as its name. Piers remarked that it was probably my idea of a cottage because it had a dishwasher & a washing machine and a T.V. It actually reminded me of a few retreat centres I’ve stayed at - lots of bedrooms, a few common rooms, and ( Read more... )

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