it felt good to be at an SCA event this weekend
This weekend was a delightful, low key SCA event a bit south of Skellefteå. We car pooled down with a friend, so the nearly three hour drive went quickly with lots of conversation. Part of the time we spoke in Swedish, to give me more practice with it. There were somewhere between 35 and 40 of us on site, and I really enjoyed the event. We did some dancing, the musician played music often, there was a merchant selling cool stuff, there were classes (including my build your own wax tablet workshop--around eight people were playing with carving tablets, and three of them got far enough along to put wax in them on site, and the others took theirs home to finish later).
There was a tournament on Saturday, but since I haven't been in armour since my minor back injury last August, and we didn't have room in the car for armour in addition to what we did bring (including the passenger), I only watched. However, it did inspire me to want to get back into fighting again, so perhaps we will find time to get to practice at some point. I hope so.
I am very glad that I brought my fur lined hood--sitting outside watching the tourney and working on a sewing project and I was comfortable the whole time. Granted, it is spring, so the temperature was only just barely below freezing, but that is still cold enough to make one uncomfortable when holding still if not dressed warmly.
While I was doing yoga on Friday night one of the young men in the group commented that he should do that, so I gave him the second sheep skin I was using as a medieval yoga mat, and he joined me. It was delightful to have company for yoga again.
Both Saturday morning and Sunday morning I went for walks before breakfast, which was also nice--the site was out in the Swedish countryside and looked like a postcard to be sold by the Swedish tourist bureau. On Saturday both lord_kjar and my yoga buddy joined me for the walk, and on Sunday it was just lord_kjar and I.
The drive home went very well, and we were home by 14:00 Sunday. Our folk dance class for this weekend had been cancelled, so instead we drove out to lord_kjar's parent's house to visit with his brother, who had flew up for the weekend. However, just before we were going to leave lord_kjar suddenly felt very bad and abruptly threw up all of the food he had eaten that day. After he did that, and got rid of a fair bit more from the other end he decided he would be able to manage the 45 minute drive home, so off we went. Since I wasn't showing any symptoms we went with the assumption that the problem wasn't a virus picked up at the event, but instead something he ate (possibly the salad bar we had stopped at on the way home--his salad contained things like shrimp, which are easily gone off--mine was just veg).
He did make it home, and said that it was probably best that he was the one driving, as it gave him something to focus his attention on, rather than noticing how his tummy etc. felt. However, soon after he got home he again got rid of lots of ick from his intestines and then threw up yet more from his tummy. Apparently his intestines continued to expel stuff repeatedly over the night, but even though he got up three or four times to deal with it, I slept through it all. <+lj-cut>I never did get sick, and he is feeling much better today (though he took the day off of work to recover), so we are sticking with the theory that it was food poison and not a virus.
Today I spent the day collecting samples, and need to spend much of the rest of the week finishing up a grant application. We don't actually have any plans for this coming weekend, and, honestly, I am totally happy with that--we may make some progress on projects we want to do...
There was a tournament on Saturday, but since I haven't been in armour since my minor back injury last August, and we didn't have room in the car for armour in addition to what we did bring (including the passenger), I only watched. However, it did inspire me to want to get back into fighting again, so perhaps we will find time to get to practice at some point. I hope so.
I am very glad that I brought my fur lined hood--sitting outside watching the tourney and working on a sewing project and I was comfortable the whole time. Granted, it is spring, so the temperature was only just barely below freezing, but that is still cold enough to make one uncomfortable when holding still if not dressed warmly.
While I was doing yoga on Friday night one of the young men in the group commented that he should do that, so I gave him the second sheep skin I was using as a medieval yoga mat, and he joined me. It was delightful to have company for yoga again.
Both Saturday morning and Sunday morning I went for walks before breakfast, which was also nice--the site was out in the Swedish countryside and looked like a postcard to be sold by the Swedish tourist bureau. On Saturday both lord_kjar and my yoga buddy joined me for the walk, and on Sunday it was just lord_kjar and I.
The drive home went very well, and we were home by 14:00 Sunday. Our folk dance class for this weekend had been cancelled, so instead we drove out to lord_kjar's parent's house to visit with his brother, who had flew up for the weekend. However, just before we were going to leave lord_kjar suddenly felt very bad and abruptly threw up all of the food he had eaten that day. After he did that, and got rid of a fair bit more from the other end he decided he would be able to manage the 45 minute drive home, so off we went. Since I wasn't showing any symptoms we went with the assumption that the problem wasn't a virus picked up at the event, but instead something he ate (possibly the salad bar we had stopped at on the way home--his salad contained things like shrimp, which are easily gone off--mine was just veg).
He did make it home, and said that it was probably best that he was the one driving, as it gave him something to focus his attention on, rather than noticing how his tummy etc. felt. However, soon after he got home he again got rid of lots of ick from his intestines and then threw up yet more from his tummy. Apparently his intestines continued to expel stuff repeatedly over the night, but even though he got up three or four times to deal with it, I slept through it all. <+lj-cut>I never did get sick, and he is feeling much better today (though he took the day off of work to recover), so we are sticking with the theory that it was food poison and not a virus.
Today I spent the day collecting samples, and need to spend much of the rest of the week finishing up a grant application. We don't actually have any plans for this coming weekend, and, honestly, I am totally happy with that--we may make some progress on projects we want to do...