Amtgard Weekend

[ladyjanelly]

Yeah, I had planned out a huge play-by-play of the adventures this weekend, but here's the highlights:

Camping in a cabin with A/C and a shower!
Shooting that guy that wouldn't move in the nuts (with a padded arrow, still, ouch)
Margul's knighting! Look! Pictures! http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p122/Ladyhawk_Peektures/Piratical%20Sabbatical%20III/?action=view¤t=DSCN1054.jpg
(That's me on the right. You can go left or right from there to see more of the ceremony)

Margul made us all breakfast. For me, the one who always cooks, that was very cool. Like a real vacation.

Came home nowhere near as sore as I thought I'd be.

Comments

[elmathelas.livejournal.com]

Is that the SCA, or is it something else? I don't know what amtgard is...

I was in the SCA once, but it took up a lot of my time and I was pre-med at that point in my life. When I fence I run into a lot of people who cross over from SCA fencing to olympic-style fencing, but I haven't been doing jack with that lately either.

Anyway, nice pics!

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

It's a seperate game, more fantasy, less re-enactment. Foam-weapon-fighting, non-functional armor. It's pretty big down here in texas where it gets too hot to wear armor half the year.

Fencing is super-cool. One of our bad-ass fighters has been doing sabre recently. It's funny when he squares off against someone and they're expecting to be beaten down and he just does this elegant little lunge-poke and it's over. :)