Today, at the SCA - The Huntman's Harvest

[pyat]

I'd call it a win. The girls had fun, velvetpage had fun, and I had fun. Within 20 minutes of arrival, Elizabeth had found two friends. Their mother gave us child-sized garb that fit Claire and Elizabeth perfectly. ruiskafleck and wggthegnoll arrived around 90 minutes after we did, and introduced us to the powers that be. We ate apples and watched fighting and lazed in the autumn sun. I got to see Lake Niapenco, an entire lake about 20 km from my house, the existence of which I did not even suspect until well into adulthood.



Behold! Sir Hornrim of Thickneck!


Arrow'ed!


Elizabeth, playing with a new friend, in her new garb.


We weren't the only anachronistic folks out today. This biplane went over a few times.


Claire decided the grass near the lake shore was a good place to suddenly stop and lie down. She was right. It was comfy.


velvetpage, being giddy. No, really!


A more closely cropped version of the previously posted pic. Sleeves! Smiles! Cars!


Hatchet practice. One woman in attendance suggested Elizabeth try it, seeming to mistake her for a much older child. We were like... "Um... she's five?"


wggthegnoll (on the right), bashing heads in the name of justice!


ruiskafleck, with some variety of space-age hand loom.

Comments

[mrs-dm.livejournal.com]

That's a great picture of Claire. She looks like a wise old soul. If I were you, I'd crop it a bit more, print it and frame it. Also, you should all get dressed up in your SCA garb again and have a family picture taken, then make it into a medieval Christmas card (easily done at Wal-Mart or Black's or something).

We almost always send pictures of Girl-O at Christmas to the mother-in-law who lives in B.C. It solves that, what-do-you-get-for-the-grandma-who-has-everything-and-wants-nothing problem. Also, it's flat and easy to send by mail.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

We need to fancify our garb a bit before we do, I think.

That reminds me - I need to print out that pic of the church in Newport.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

One word: Shutterfly.com. We made photo books for the grandparents last year, and we'll probably do the same this year, but we're waiting until after Krista's wedding to do it so we'll have the pictures from that, as well.