The weekend
devilcupid1979 and I headed over to Kansas City this weekend to visit our friends J&S and attend the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. We drove over on Friday to enjoy some relaxed time catching up with J&S and see their new house with impressive home theater system.
Due to various time constraints we were only able to make it to the faire site on Saturday, having to head back early on Sunday. Even tho it was Celtic weekend, due to the weather forecast calling for 88 and sunny, I decided to forgo the kilt and wear the shiny beaded doublet that the extremely talented imbri6 made for me.
It is always great seeing so many friends at KCRF... Right after cannon we met up with our friend Carlos (the ludite without LJ-ness), also from St. Louis, just inside front gate to spend much of our day with and I managed to see brotherwilliam & mistressniniane, rowangolightly & thebruce, eacole72 & Ray, mesniu, ardantheblack, and malvito. Alas, I wanted to say "hi" to duane_kc and wish rdnkangel a happy birthday but could find neither at Mother Pockets. There were many others that I would have liked to have seen but never found wandering the streets.
It is interesting observing the many changes in cast and merchant staff over the last few years. I suppose it seemed even more pronounced having missed the entire run last year. It is also a bit odd walking the streets at times. Having worked the faire for a few years, I don't exactly feel like I "fit in" as a playtron, but at the same time I am not working the faire and so am not a part of the faire either.
I suppose it is similar to the "out of sorts" feeling I get when I visit GSLRF, tho that feeling tends to be even stronger there.
After dinner on Saturday we headed back to our friends' house and watched Hot Fuzz, a movie we had not yet seen. I have to admit I did enjoy it... maybe I shouldn't have admitted that.
Overall, it was a good weekend, 'tis a shame that the real world stress returns all too soon.
Due to various time constraints we were only able to make it to the faire site on Saturday, having to head back early on Sunday. Even tho it was Celtic weekend, due to the weather forecast calling for 88 and sunny, I decided to forgo the kilt and wear the shiny beaded doublet that the extremely talented imbri6 made for me.
It is always great seeing so many friends at KCRF... Right after cannon we met up with our friend Carlos (the ludite without LJ-ness), also from St. Louis, just inside front gate to spend much of our day with and I managed to see brotherwilliam & mistressniniane, rowangolightly & thebruce, eacole72 & Ray, mesniu, ardantheblack, and malvito. Alas, I wanted to say "hi" to duane_kc and wish rdnkangel a happy birthday but could find neither at Mother Pockets. There were many others that I would have liked to have seen but never found wandering the streets.
It is interesting observing the many changes in cast and merchant staff over the last few years. I suppose it seemed even more pronounced having missed the entire run last year. It is also a bit odd walking the streets at times. Having worked the faire for a few years, I don't exactly feel like I "fit in" as a playtron, but at the same time I am not working the faire and so am not a part of the faire either.
I suppose it is similar to the "out of sorts" feeling I get when I visit GSLRF, tho that feeling tends to be even stronger there.
After dinner on Saturday we headed back to our friends' house and watched Hot Fuzz, a movie we had not yet seen. I have to admit I did enjoy it... maybe I shouldn't have admitted that.
Overall, it was a good weekend, 'tis a shame that the real world stress returns all too soon.