Well, that was a hell of a few days...

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I'm on vacation, and so far I have spent two days on a train, two days at the New York Renaissance Faire and one day taking care of other matters. It's been a pretty full schedule. But I am back upstate and trying to put together some scrambled thoughts. It's not really working.

The Faire, as always, very awesome. Because I got to see the Crimson Pirates, in part. Because I got to see the Crimson Pirates with Dan O'Driscoll in very large part (long story, but let's just say for now the fact we went this past weekend was as very serendipitous). We picked up the new album and Ben bought me this great custom pin from Fellowship Foundry. It just says 'Om Nom Nom' on it. (I'm also getting a butterfly dragon goblet I'm not supposed to know about but I wandered back too early, so, um, oops. I told Ben to give it to me for Christmas so hopefully I will forget about it by then. Unless of course I read this entry. Heh.)

I also have discovered that yes, I can still blush. Rather a lot. See, this is what happens when someone who pretty much defines your NYRF faire experience since the early 1990's actually chooses to 'play' with you during a song ("Black Velvet Band", in this case). So. Yes. I matched parts of my outfit very nicely.

The Crimson Pirates, btw, did a wonderful job of covering 'Bow to Stern'. There was a completely kick-ass version of "A Sailor's Prayer" done during pub sing which I will link to if I can ever find video of it. Until then, here's "Rocky Road to Dublin". (For those of you not familiar with the Crimson Pirates or Dan O'Driscoll, he's the one in the middle.)

Comments

[prydwyn.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that looks like a blast!!!!! I would LOVE to go to another ren faire!! We did the Pen Ren a few years back and it was wonderful!

[akadriver.livejournal.com]

I would LOVE to get as much of the crew down to this faire as possible. It would be nice to have more than just Ben and myself pirating around. Technically, Kate is there too but she's a actor (and instrumental music director this year!!) so can't be our navigator.

However, it was absolutely PRICELESS to see the look on Ben's face when she sang her chorus at the pub sing - they were doing 'Roll Your Leg Over', and there was much innuendo to be had. I was highly, highly amused.

[ravensdaughter.livejournal.com]

Cool.

Was that the queen on the right? Just curious.

[akadriver.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the queen. During that particular show, she claims she is tired of madrigals so she wants to see what singing something else is like. Apparently she likes it, because she pretty much shows up at all of the rest of the shows they do during the day. I do a lot of 'God Save the Queen' when I go to this particular faire, as I like to see the Crimson Pirates multiple times. :)

[xauenmurph.livejournal.com]

heh, well that cheered up my morning. Maybe someone will wanna go to shrewsbury faire with me here.

[akadriver.livejournal.com]

I'd definitely go, if I could afford to get out there. :(