2005-11-14 - 5:02 p.m.

Day at the Races II

Wow! What a busy day!

Day at the Races was a hoot. Then again, we planned on it being the silliest event of the year.

So far, I think that we are succeeding.

We had 22 ships in the races, which was pretty good numbers for any tournament, if you think about it. Since we were also placing "wagers" of chocolate coins, with Cassie as our bookie and Ana Beagh as her trusty assistant, we had to use a single elimination format. Otherwise it would have taken forever.

We even had an MoL, namely Delphina, who was doubling as our agent for the "rental" ships. (She did a great job.)

Of course, pretty soon we all got the hint that if we wanted to increase our stash of chocolate, all we needed to do was to place our bets on Sir Aelfred's ship The Marie Simone. Holy cow! That thing was wicked!

The The Marie Simone was an impressive vessel, a catamaran-type ship, with a single silk sail and balance like nobody's business. Furthermore, it was not made out of a kit. A total original.

It beat the sails out of everybody, won the tournament, and won me 84 chocolate coins.

We are an Italian Barony after all.

The rest of the day was a lot of fun, very relaxed. We lost our poor dance mistress due to a family emergency, but fortunately Ana stepped up and directed a couple of dances.

(Heck, we even had live music with Harp and Drum. No use wasting good live music!)

After that, Gavin and Yael showed up, as they were visiting from California.

"So, when is the dancing?" Says Gavin.

"Sigh." I say. "There is no more dancing. We don't have a dance master." (Pout.)

"You know," Says Gavin. "I am an Isenfirian."

"You're on!"

So we did have our full dancing session after all, and then Alle Psallite had the chance of give a kick ass show (we sounded great, if I say so myself,) and we had a terrific dinner by Master Tirloch.

Who says that guacamole is not period?

He made this Mexican very happy . . .

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