I left from work on Friday around 4:00 PM to start the drive. I was expecting to stop somewhere along the way to sleep, but wound up making it to Cranberry, PA where I found a room. I wasn't tired, so I figured, why not go check in at Troll, so I made the drive up to Pennsic and got my medallion, this way I could avoid the lines in the morning. I headed back to the hotel. As I was just about to turn off the light and fall asleep, the power went out for the whole area, nit just the hotel. I spent a few minutes in the lobby trying to find out what was going on (as there was an alarm chirping in my room), realized that I would be sleeping in a tent with trucks blowing their horns nearby, so I trudged up the stairs to the room. The beeping had stopped, so I opened the window and went to sleep. About 90 minutes later the power went on, so I then had to turn off all the lights and fell back asleep. In the morning I drove to the storage unit to get my yurt.
Arriving at camp, I unpacked the yurt. Firebow arrived just a few minuted later. A couple of the DeLondres kids (can I call them kids since they are now over 20?) helped me start setting up the yurt. We had trouble with getting the rafters in and the roof ring. We needed to make the band around the top tighter to support the roof. Additionally, I got a ladder so 'bow could stand on it with the ring as we got rafters in place. Thank you Magnus for the help and advice. With the structure up, the roof and walls went on easily. By that point I was able to get some of the furnishings for the tent from storage before heading to the airport to pick up Chris. I was running late, or thought I was for the airport run, so I was doing a bit over the speed limit. I got to the airport about the same time as his flight and met him in baggage claim. We headed up towards site with a stop for food and at Walmart for supplies. I thought I had extra bedding for him in the storage unit, but when we checked, it was not there, so we drove to the other Walmart in the rain. Getting pack to site, we finished setting up the tent and with our storage runs. Saturday night was somewhat relaxed. I was going to try and make it to opening ceremonies so I could guard HRM Ian'ka of Atenveldt, but was still setting stuff up.
Sunday was the belted, unbelts, heroic champions and allied champions. As I was prepping for the rapier field battle which was to follow, I got to see Brennan called before the thrones and be given a writ for his induction into the Order of the Chivalry. The field battles were over pretty quickly. They were run three times. I wound up with nine kills over the course of the battle, which was a lot considering how badly we outnumbered them. But our opponents gave a spirited fight.
Part 2 - rapier champs and the OGR meeting... (coming soon)
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