This was the year I really danced at Pennsic. Step Spritely made me realize how much I used to love dance. Piers promised me that we would go to the ball together, especially since it was on his birthday and he thought dancing with his wife at the Grand Ball was a cool way to celebrate ( Read more... )

If this Pennsic had a theme, it would be dance and romance (more on that in a separate message ( 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... )

I registered the 3 of us for Pennsic ( Read more... )

I got "help" cooking tonight. I was using Korma sauce. A suggestion was made to add banana. I began trying to explain that while banana is not used in Indian cooking, it is used in some Caribbean dishes ( Read more... )

... you are driving by a construction site, and she suddenly gets animated, "Look they have Pennsic toilets - just like Pennsic."

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

Garb still isn't made, we haven't give much thought to food, and packing is going to be a nightmare ( Read more... )

Pennsic 2005 was a different Pennsic from the last two. In 2001 and 2004, we went as a childless couple. This time we took the 3 year-old Princess and I was 6.5 months pregnant. Either of those two things would have changed our experience; together they were almost overwhelming ( Read more... )

Pennsic was on the whole fabulous. It did start to rain Wednesday night. (You could say that Midnight Madness was a washout.) :) It rained non-stop until Thursday afternoon. And it was rainy intermittently after that. We left a day early and came home Friday. Pennsic is so much fun that you forget that you are camping, but camping in the ( Read more... )