Birthday weekend happenings
Friday night my parents took Tina and I out to dinner. They met Tina once before briefly at Lakewood, but Tina was in her garb which doesn’t leave much to the imagination, and she was busy working, they had stuff they wanted to see, etc. So it wasn’t the ideal situation for a first time meeting my parents. Tina was kinda nervous, but everything went fine, and my mom told me how much they both like her.
Saturday instead of normal Markland practice we had a mask making workshop so we’d all be ready for the upcoming Lost Boys masquerade ball. After we were all pretty much done we went out to Finnegan’s for “Circle Bowling Night” We all had a good time and generally made asses of ourselves. We had to call it a semi-early night though because a bunch of us were going to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire in the morning.
I woke up early to the sound of my cell phone ringing, it was Kin Ryu calling asking if we were still going because it was raining out. I said yes the plans were still on, because the faire is like 100 miles west of us. He decided not to go though. Tina woke up a little bit later and we got ready to go, Fox, Ciara, and S showed up right on time. Big S, Aiden, Raven and whoever else had planned to mete us there. The ride out was uneventful but long, and made longer by the fact that the exit we’d normally take to get to the faire was under construction and we had to take one further east and use back roads to get to the faire.
The faire was fun as always. I got Tina a dragon puppet, a knife and a leather halter top, I also got us shackles and manacles. Fox, Ciara, and S got me some bling. Fox and I got new swords. Fox and Ciara got masks. And Fox got Ciara got a new dress. We met up with Big S who hung with us for the rest of the day. We briefly saw Aiden, Raven, and J as well as some people from Scarlet Cross.
At one point Fox and I went to drop stuff off at the car, and that’s when we realized what bad Vikings we are. We couldn’t find our way out of the “village we were raiding”. We walked right past the main gates and the exit sign. Then when we got out, we couldn’t find our “boat”, and wandered around the “harbor” for a while. When we got back we got some food and then watched the “Fire Show” walked around a lot, everyone but me and Tina watched the joust.
The one thing I missed that I wanted to see was the Pirate Auction, but I had a good reason, I was helping Tina get fitted for her halter top. After her fitting we all went to the Dragon puppet raffle. None of us won anything, but we did see something really cool. A guy won a dragon puppet, and apparently a small child near him really liked it, or was sad she didn’t win, so the guy just gave it to her. From the looks of things this was like a $75 puppet. The guy who ran the booth and raffle was so touched by this act of kindness he offered the original winner a grand prize package in addition to the grand prizes he was going to give out at the end of the raffle.
After the raffle we left, nothing special on the way home. When we got back to my place Tina gave me my present Abarat Volumes 1 & 2 by Clive Barker. Of course she gave me more than that when we went to bed ;)
Monday (my actual birthday) the office took me out to lunch. After lunch we came really close to going pumpkin picking. Did I tell you how cool job is recently? Then was fight practice, but there was a lack of fighters and daylight, so we just hung out and went to the diner. At practice I got a card from Kin Ryu and C, which promised a better present, was coming as soon as they made up their minds about it. Tina bought me dinner at the Diner. After the diner we went back to Kin Ryu and C’s place for some Halloween trivia. And later that night I got the best birthday present ever. I bet you’re all just dieing to know what it is.
Saturday instead of normal Markland practice we had a mask making workshop so we’d all be ready for the upcoming Lost Boys masquerade ball. After we were all pretty much done we went out to Finnegan’s for “Circle Bowling Night” We all had a good time and generally made asses of ourselves. We had to call it a semi-early night though because a bunch of us were going to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire in the morning.
I woke up early to the sound of my cell phone ringing, it was Kin Ryu calling asking if we were still going because it was raining out. I said yes the plans were still on, because the faire is like 100 miles west of us. He decided not to go though. Tina woke up a little bit later and we got ready to go, Fox, Ciara, and S showed up right on time. Big S, Aiden, Raven and whoever else had planned to mete us there. The ride out was uneventful but long, and made longer by the fact that the exit we’d normally take to get to the faire was under construction and we had to take one further east and use back roads to get to the faire.
The faire was fun as always. I got Tina a dragon puppet, a knife and a leather halter top, I also got us shackles and manacles. Fox, Ciara, and S got me some bling. Fox and I got new swords. Fox and Ciara got masks. And Fox got Ciara got a new dress. We met up with Big S who hung with us for the rest of the day. We briefly saw Aiden, Raven, and J as well as some people from Scarlet Cross.
At one point Fox and I went to drop stuff off at the car, and that’s when we realized what bad Vikings we are. We couldn’t find our way out of the “village we were raiding”. We walked right past the main gates and the exit sign. Then when we got out, we couldn’t find our “boat”, and wandered around the “harbor” for a while. When we got back we got some food and then watched the “Fire Show” walked around a lot, everyone but me and Tina watched the joust.
The one thing I missed that I wanted to see was the Pirate Auction, but I had a good reason, I was helping Tina get fitted for her halter top. After her fitting we all went to the Dragon puppet raffle. None of us won anything, but we did see something really cool. A guy won a dragon puppet, and apparently a small child near him really liked it, or was sad she didn’t win, so the guy just gave it to her. From the looks of things this was like a $75 puppet. The guy who ran the booth and raffle was so touched by this act of kindness he offered the original winner a grand prize package in addition to the grand prizes he was going to give out at the end of the raffle.
After the raffle we left, nothing special on the way home. When we got back to my place Tina gave me my present Abarat Volumes 1 & 2 by Clive Barker. Of course she gave me more than that when we went to bed ;)
Monday (my actual birthday) the office took me out to lunch. After lunch we came really close to going pumpkin picking. Did I tell you how cool job is recently? Then was fight practice, but there was a lack of fighters and daylight, so we just hung out and went to the diner. At practice I got a card from Kin Ryu and C, which promised a better present, was coming as soon as they made up their minds about it. Tina bought me dinner at the Diner. After the diner we went back to Kin Ryu and C’s place for some Halloween trivia. And later that night I got the best birthday present ever. I bet you’re all just dieing to know what it is.