Collegium, minus the feast
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madbaker'Cause the feast impressions (and fatigue) are too raw at the moment. Other than that, how was the weekend, Mrs. Lincoln?
We drove up Friday. Got a later start than I would have preferred, meaning that we inched in traffic getting out of San Francisco on a Friday afternoon for over an hour. Had an unexpectedly decent dinner at a brewpub in Fairfield we've thought about trying before (my sandwich was okay, the wife's roast chicken was good) and the beer was pretty good. Got to the hotel, did some ironing and last minute sewing, and to bed.
Got to the site at 8:15 (site opened at 9) and there were already a whole bunch of people there.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bonacorsi started directing and setting up and all that other autocratty stuff while I went back to the hotel for the bag of supplies she'd forgotten. I went to the beginning cooking class briefly, but I didn't stay for the whole thing as I had other stuff to do. I enjoyed ldyanna's sugar plate class; I learned things and had fun playing with sugar paste.
The rest of the day was taken up with the feast (entry to come later)
Didn't finish packing and cleaning until close to midnight. I was getting grumpy and tired; I was severely regretting having invited people to our room to imbibe bubbly, as all I really wanted to do was shower and sleep. But by the time people showed I was feeling social again, so that was all right. It was me and the wife obviously, Klaus,ppfuf and G-M, etaine_pommier and J!, V & V. We snarfed crackers and duck sausage and leftover creme bastarde (that last separately). It was good; we needed the detox time. Make that retox: as a group we also drank a nearly-full bottle of scotch, ditto one of port, two bottles of prosecco, and two or three bottles of wine. How I avoided a hangover Sunday I don't know. People left about 2 AM.
Sunday, futzed around and massaged the aching calves until checkout, then went for lunch before the Kingdom Officers' meeting.bonacorsi optimistically said it would last an hour and a half. I was outside with a book and drying linens (the hotel had free laundry, so we ran our stained linens through and got most of the wine, ale, and spilled food stains out). ldyanna showed up and we chatted for a good hour about random stuff. When it got to 3:00 I hauled the wife out so we could get home without too much Sunday afternoon traffic. At home, the upstairs neighbors pleasantly surprised us with a cool Pimm's Cup to imbibe and refresh ourselves.
And that's all I'm going to say about the weekend right now.
We drove up Friday. Got a later start than I would have preferred, meaning that we inched in traffic getting out of San Francisco on a Friday afternoon for over an hour. Had an unexpectedly decent dinner at a brewpub in Fairfield we've thought about trying before (my sandwich was okay, the wife's roast chicken was good) and the beer was pretty good. Got to the hotel, did some ironing and last minute sewing, and to bed.
Got to the site at 8:15 (site opened at 9) and there were already a whole bunch of people there.
bonacorsi started directing and setting up and all that other autocratty stuff while I went back to the hotel for the bag of supplies she'd forgotten. I went to the beginning cooking class briefly, but I didn't stay for the whole thing as I had other stuff to do. I enjoyed ldyanna's sugar plate class; I learned things and had fun playing with sugar paste.The rest of the day was taken up with the feast (entry to come later)
Didn't finish packing and cleaning until close to midnight. I was getting grumpy and tired; I was severely regretting having invited people to our room to imbibe bubbly, as all I really wanted to do was shower and sleep. But by the time people showed I was feeling social again, so that was all right. It was me and the wife obviously, Klaus,
ppfuf and G-M, etaine_pommier and J!, V & V. We snarfed crackers and duck sausage and leftover creme bastarde (that last separately). It was good; we needed the detox time. Make that retox: as a group we also drank a nearly-full bottle of scotch, ditto one of port, two bottles of prosecco, and two or three bottles of wine. How I avoided a hangover Sunday I don't know. People left about 2 AM.Sunday, futzed around and massaged the aching calves until checkout, then went for lunch before the Kingdom Officers' meeting.
bonacorsi optimistically said it would last an hour and a half. I was outside with a book and drying linens (the hotel had free laundry, so we ran our stained linens through and got most of the wine, ale, and spilled food stains out). ldyanna showed up and we chatted for a good hour about random stuff. When it got to 3:00 I hauled the wife out so we could get home without too much Sunday afternoon traffic. At home, the upstairs neighbors pleasantly surprised us with a cool Pimm's Cup to imbibe and refresh ourselves.And that's all I'm going to say about the weekend right now.
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Late evenings...
Date: 2008-04-29 01:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-29 05:10 am (UTC)Have fun storming the castle!
Date: 2008-04-29 05:54 pm (UTC)(of course, this one was easy)
Re: Have fun storming the castle!
Date: 2008-04-29 09:11 pm (UTC)Woot!
Date: 2008-04-29 10:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-01 05:53 pm (UTC)Thank you (again, if I said so before) for your 144 trenchers and other help. The trenchers really made the feast fabulous. We could have used the metal ones, but it would not have been _as_ right as the bread was.
Thanks also for the retox party. I wanted to sleep, but I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to, I was such a bundle of angst.
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Date: 2008-05-01 06:21 pm (UTC)