It's been a loooong weekend.
Aug. 8th, 2004 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xansSo, haven't really been around since Wednesday. Thursday I wasn't online because Rhi and Ali were crashing at my place. I introduced them to the Red Green show, which they had never seen before. And then we woke up to it raining in the morning. Mum was staying home sick, too.
Meh, we packed, and were off by noon or one. The rain had pretty much abated by the time we reached our campsite, which we were very lucky to get. Set up the tents, and then we went off to get some food and stuff. I feel asleep after all the food and warmth in the car. Wouldn't have woken up were it not for the car stopping.
So we explored a little, played some games, and made hamburgers. Ali nearly got her eyebrows singed off when the gast burner wouldn't start and then suddenly had a burst of flame. But hey, we ate... stayed up late... had chich chatter...
Saturday was off to the faire. Wheee! It wasn't nearly as cloudy and even got pretty warm. I did go in search of a bodice, but could find none reasonably (for me) priced. Instead I settled for this gorgeous skirt. Rhi got a belt for her new rapier. I got a cool tin with a set of dragon cards in it, and a pretty card for mum from the same place she got her rapier.
Walking around the faire we saw some cool sights. Xena, for instance. Plus about three pet dragons and three dragons by their lonesome. Got snarled at by some wild cat creature thing, and saw a chick in a skin tight tiger suit. Ran into Charles, bless him, and promised to check out one of his group's shows.
I ended up buying more things, like a titanium navel ring for mum, (encouraged Rhi to buy a glass bottle in a leather holder to carry lemonade in) a little belt knife with an even smaller twin, a green glass mug with some celtic design for mum, and some fish'n'chips.
We got pretty tired and sat down by the stage Charles and his friends would be perfoming at. Watched one show before theirs came on. They were a bunch of gypsies ("There goes the neighborhood!") so we got some song and dance and fortune telling... It was pretty cool, but we were done after that.
Came back, Rhi and I took a walk while Ali read... got tired out and had a nap. Went and bought some firewood that they took a while to deliver--which meant we got extra for free. But then we had a hell of a time getting a fire started due to lack of paper and kindling, so we had to get some of that delivered, too. But then it was a lot of fun.
Toasted hotdogs, and I was the only one not to burn her fingers transferring cooked dog onto bun. :D And then we had marshmallows. Didn't really care to make s'mores. I just liked setting my marshmallow on fire so it was melted inside and crispy outside. Joygasmically good. Of course some of us had to lose a marshmallow or ten to the fire because they look cool when they expand and bubble and expand some more before turning to ash.
Were getting some water to douse the fire when the park ranger lady told it was "quiet hour" which certainly helped put a damper on the whole thing. Meh. We were tired enough it wasn't so bad. Lots of sleep later, and then it was all packing up time.
Came home and my parents weren't there. Didn't know where they were, when they were going to be back, nothing. Turns out they went to the beach and they came home close to six. I got handed to paper which was mum's subtle way of saying look in the classifieds right this instant young lady. There's nothing this week. Le sigh.
Damn I really want some chocolate.
Fin.
Meh, we packed, and were off by noon or one. The rain had pretty much abated by the time we reached our campsite, which we were very lucky to get. Set up the tents, and then we went off to get some food and stuff. I feel asleep after all the food and warmth in the car. Wouldn't have woken up were it not for the car stopping.
So we explored a little, played some games, and made hamburgers. Ali nearly got her eyebrows singed off when the gast burner wouldn't start and then suddenly had a burst of flame. But hey, we ate... stayed up late... had chich chatter...
Saturday was off to the faire. Wheee! It wasn't nearly as cloudy and even got pretty warm. I did go in search of a bodice, but could find none reasonably (for me) priced. Instead I settled for this gorgeous skirt. Rhi got a belt for her new rapier. I got a cool tin with a set of dragon cards in it, and a pretty card for mum from the same place she got her rapier.
Walking around the faire we saw some cool sights. Xena, for instance. Plus about three pet dragons and three dragons by their lonesome. Got snarled at by some wild cat creature thing, and saw a chick in a skin tight tiger suit. Ran into Charles, bless him, and promised to check out one of his group's shows.
I ended up buying more things, like a titanium navel ring for mum, (encouraged Rhi to buy a glass bottle in a leather holder to carry lemonade in) a little belt knife with an even smaller twin, a green glass mug with some celtic design for mum, and some fish'n'chips.
We got pretty tired and sat down by the stage Charles and his friends would be perfoming at. Watched one show before theirs came on. They were a bunch of gypsies ("There goes the neighborhood!") so we got some song and dance and fortune telling... It was pretty cool, but we were done after that.
Came back, Rhi and I took a walk while Ali read... got tired out and had a nap. Went and bought some firewood that they took a while to deliver--which meant we got extra for free. But then we had a hell of a time getting a fire started due to lack of paper and kindling, so we had to get some of that delivered, too. But then it was a lot of fun.
Toasted hotdogs, and I was the only one not to burn her fingers transferring cooked dog onto bun. :D And then we had marshmallows. Didn't really care to make s'mores. I just liked setting my marshmallow on fire so it was melted inside and crispy outside. Joygasmically good. Of course some of us had to lose a marshmallow or ten to the fire because they look cool when they expand and bubble and expand some more before turning to ash.
Were getting some water to douse the fire when the park ranger lady told it was "quiet hour" which certainly helped put a damper on the whole thing. Meh. We were tired enough it wasn't so bad. Lots of sleep later, and then it was all packing up time.
Came home and my parents weren't there. Didn't know where they were, when they were going to be back, nothing. Turns out they went to the beach and they came home close to six. I got handed to paper which was mum's subtle way of saying look in the classifieds right this instant young lady. There's nothing this week. Le sigh.
Damn I really want some chocolate.
Fin.
