The update
Well, we're at Chad's parents now. So I thought I'd do a quick update.
Pics: There will be quite a few, but not as many as I wanted. I wasn't paying attention to my battery, wasted a lot of photos on nothing (I only got one, One!, photo of Nephew Oliver.) and then my battery was totally gone, the camera wouldn’t even stay on anymore. But I got quite a few random shots of festival employees or goers all dressed up.
Katy's TKD test: Katy had the worst luck driving back home. First, on Sunday, the left front tire was smoking. So we took it to a shop early Monday morning and they said oil leak, $700 please. We said, um, no, thanks for trying, and bought her lots of oil. It wasn't leaking THAT fast. She was supposed to check it frequently and add if it got lower. So she got going late and missed her college English class. Then she stopped to check the oil (as directed) turned off the car and it refused to start again. Turns out it was a completely unrelated problem, the battery crapped out. So then she was running even later and missed her TKD test. And, as the cherry on the top she was caught speeding, got her first ticket and owes $150! What an awful trip home!!
As for the Renaissance Festival, it was a blast. We saw Irish dancers. (Men with bells on their legs, swinging sticks, I was so impressed. How secure as a man do you have to be to belong to an all male dancing club and dress up funny like that to preserve your heritage?) Jousting, plenty of wenches, jugglers... There wasn't enough time to see it all, and we were there more than four hours. One of the best things was a petting zoo and elephant rides for Oliver. Katy took him for an elephant ride, he's 2 and I thought he might be too scared, but he loved it. He's seen pics of elephants but this was the real thing. After they got off Katy said, "Say thank you." Oliver: "Thank you Elephant."
I enjoyed it as well, one of the elephants chained in the middle, was stretching his trunk as far as he could, stretching to reach the people at the fence, who were feeding him grass. So I ran like a crazy woman and reached out my hand. He reached out his trunk and took about half my hand inside the lips of his trunk, like a kiss or tasting me with his lips. Of course my hand got all dirty and elephant snotty, everyone around me was "gross!"ing but I thought it was GLORIOUS. How many people get kissed by and elephant? Yeah, me!
Well, I'd best go be sociable now.
Pics: There will be quite a few, but not as many as I wanted. I wasn't paying attention to my battery, wasted a lot of photos on nothing (I only got one, One!, photo of Nephew Oliver.) and then my battery was totally gone, the camera wouldn’t even stay on anymore. But I got quite a few random shots of festival employees or goers all dressed up.
Katy's TKD test: Katy had the worst luck driving back home. First, on Sunday, the left front tire was smoking. So we took it to a shop early Monday morning and they said oil leak, $700 please. We said, um, no, thanks for trying, and bought her lots of oil. It wasn't leaking THAT fast. She was supposed to check it frequently and add if it got lower. So she got going late and missed her college English class. Then she stopped to check the oil (as directed) turned off the car and it refused to start again. Turns out it was a completely unrelated problem, the battery crapped out. So then she was running even later and missed her TKD test. And, as the cherry on the top she was caught speeding, got her first ticket and owes $150! What an awful trip home!!
As for the Renaissance Festival, it was a blast. We saw Irish dancers. (Men with bells on their legs, swinging sticks, I was so impressed. How secure as a man do you have to be to belong to an all male dancing club and dress up funny like that to preserve your heritage?) Jousting, plenty of wenches, jugglers... There wasn't enough time to see it all, and we were there more than four hours. One of the best things was a petting zoo and elephant rides for Oliver. Katy took him for an elephant ride, he's 2 and I thought he might be too scared, but he loved it. He's seen pics of elephants but this was the real thing. After they got off Katy said, "Say thank you." Oliver: "Thank you Elephant."
I enjoyed it as well, one of the elephants chained in the middle, was stretching his trunk as far as he could, stretching to reach the people at the fence, who were feeding him grass. So I ran like a crazy woman and reached out my hand. He reached out his trunk and took about half my hand inside the lips of his trunk, like a kiss or tasting me with his lips. Of course my hand got all dirty and elephant snotty, everyone around me was "gross!"ing but I thought it was GLORIOUS. How many people get kissed by and elephant? Yeah, me!
Well, I'd best go be sociable now.
posted by HealthyHappyHolly at 11:02 AM
