felis_lupus | Crown Tourney, au Canada. (Reply)

Max, Mickel and I traveled to Canada (just barely) and Crown Tourney in IDD yesterday, to watch Julien try to become the next King of the East Kingdom. Not the actual outcome, but we had a darn fine time cheering him on. Pom-poms and all. He appreciated them, and the cheers. What fun. :) Gryffith and Aikaterine will be wonderful winter monarchs.

The weather was disagreeable, but did not dampen (heh) the good time at all. We had a fine viewing station from the wedge tent, food, drink, and good friends all about. The finals were excellent, with Count Gryffith emerging victorious over Sir Kenric in 4 bouts. Marcus did extremely well.

valkyrie1972 will be an awesome Queen one of these days. ;)

Stayed for court (long court, because it was bilingual...), as Very Important Things were happening. Xavier's Silver Rapier scroll came out very well (I'm happy with most of it... the ink was behaving weirdly, and the cap... well... just lookit the moose, though! eee!), especially for only getting the assignment less than 2 weeks before the event. He was kinda happy too (understatement), which made me very happy.

moonandtree and I were robbed, though! The surprise was less than it could have been, since our little Order didn't get called up before the court. Hugs and congratulations happened afterward, on the porch... was very Good. Beautiful words by

moonandtree, beautiful calligraphy by

anna_mickel. Couldn't have done it without them.

Trip home was uneventful. Didn't see any moose, deer, whatevers. Stopped by a little restaurant just across the NH border for dinner, and ended up talking with a gal I had played in Pep Band in college with. She recognized me right off, it took me a couple minutes, but the memory was jogged. Pretty cool, if a bit random.

Going through the 275+ photos I took yesterday will take a while... A gallery and a few videos will be posted when I'm done.