Relaxing Weekend...

Friday  Got up about 8, made coffee, cleaned up after the cats had dumped their water container.  Mel drove off to go shooting with Della and Feomir and I sat down to paint.  They got back to the house around 11:30-12 and I finished up with the scroll shortly after that.  Yeah!  That means I have documentation and cleaning of beads to do this week and I'm done for A&S.  So I packed up povoiniks to repair/make at the con and a caftan and trim to put on it.  We left for Phx about 4:3o and picked up our friend Drew on the way.  Very nice.  At at BJ's Brewery and went to bed about midnight.

Saturday We hit the con about 9 am, checked in (pre-reg is so nice) and checked out the games.  There wasn't much I wanted to play to start off with so I got into a LARP Harry Potter in Diagon Alley.  That was a lot of fun.  I played "Tessa Greenwood" a senior year student at Salem Witches Institute who was doing her senior project on differences on English versus American students.  The mystery that we had to solve was that the Cloak of Merlin had been stolen and reported have been seen in Knockturn Alley.  My glowing moment was leaving my toad in the window of Borgin and Botts to listen in on a suspicious conversation which helped me solve the mystery.  Plus I came in second in the Junior Dueling competition.  Played Quiddler with some folks including Allan, Elspeth's husband. 

Was grabbing him to hit the pub (Rula Bula) for dinner when the guy from the dealer's room that had been running the raffle came in and handed me a box of Pocky.  Allan asked "What's that for?"  I replied, "Cause I'm cute."  Sean the guy flustered and said, "no...raffle prize"  I realize he thinks Allan is my husband and say "This isn't my hubby, he's over there."  Sean replies "Oh, its cause your'e fricking HOT!"  LOL!  So, Allan and I hit the pub and he says "I don't drink anymore, maybe once in a BLUE moon."  I say "Well, tonight is a blue moon, come have a Guiness!"  So, we get perfet english imperial pints with shamrocks in the head and enjoy really, really good food.  Allan's friends from Tucson show up (astromomers at Mt. Graham) and we have a really good time.  I play a few more card games including "Apples to Apples" and leave about 1:30 am,  after mel comes in second in a D&D minature's tourney.

Sunday I got to the convention a couple of hours before the boys do.  I make my book purchases with Barry Bard, catch his movie previews (got a Village t-shirt, Open water frisbee and notebook, Fantastic 4 pin and some Regenerix lotion and a hat from Resident Evil Apocolypse) and buy Beer Money which is the more advance version of Lunch Money.  I sit and play it with a few folks for a couple of hours and did some sewing too. Had lunch at the Pub with Mughi and Drew.  They went back to Mughi's place while  Mel and I went to Windrose Armoury to look at mel's new helm for a fit check and its awesome!  Chatted with Johannes and Donagal for about 2 hours and then we went home.  Picked up drew and got home way later than planned (9:30p) but it was well worth the fun and really relaxing weekend.  So, on to powerpoint slides and drawing reviews this week.

PS: Found out that Cosimo got knighted over the weekend....knew something was gonna happen local and now I know what!  Yeah Cosimo!