Of bawdy ballads and times past

[jethrien]

Returned from Boston unscathed.

We spent a lovely weekend visiting people we had not seen in far too long. May such trips occur again in the future.

There was roleplaying in the park. (Not LARPing, thank you, nice unobtrusive roleplaying consisting of sitting around laughing at each other.) We did not attract notice, in part because we are clean cut, respectable young people, and in part because the homeless people who apparently had set up a little camp to the side decided to have a fight. No physical violence (to our voyaristic disappointment), but a lot of cursing and screaming done by people wearing odd and extremely dirty clothes. And one woman wandering around singing and talking to herself.

Interesting place, Boston.

The highlight activity for the weekend was a trip to Medieval Manor, where you are fed copious amounts of food with no silverware while actors pretend to be of some generic old time period ("Wench" clothes, a king wearing pantyhose who tries to recite Shakespeare, singing of songs including the Simon and Garfunkel arrangement of "Scarborough Faire", etc.) Historically accurate, it was not. Entertaining, however - most definitely. And the food was really rather good, and staggeringly plentiful.

Then we retreated to lyriendel's pad for wine, Dance Dance Revolution, and movies.

After brunch in the morning, we were back on our way home, accompanied by a bunch of seriously twitty ditzes who we managed to get crammed in with at the back of our bus. Sigh.

It was lovely to see everyone. Hope to do it again soon.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

And here we have the reason I never post about the events in my life. I can just put up something like "see Jethrien's post" and call it a day. Which works for me, because I'm lazy.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Wait...roleplaying without a Ben-type saying something to scare or creep out everyone in a 30 foot radius? What's it like? :)

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sure if anyone eavesdropped, they'd be confused and bewildered. (Among other shenanigans, we duct-taped a lobster to where someone's ear used to be by accident. And terrorized goblins, and fired Janine dressed in a cannonball costume out of a cannon at the top of a tower.)

But you had to actually listen to us for a minute to be scared.

[katertoticus.livejournal.com]

Glad you had such a great time, and I wish I could have been around for it. I had a very nice weekend also...wish I could have done both. Next time, though...

So I'll come visit sometime, but it won't be August, since I added an extra weekend into the month when I previously said I might make it down. September is possible, though. Where does the time go?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

All right. We'd be glad to see you. And we have lots of room for houseguests.

[fairylane.livejournal.com]

I hope your bus on the way back was less smelly than mine...ugh.

Medieval Manor reminds me of Medieval Times in Toronto, except Medieval Times is basically copious food with a large jousting contest.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I've been to Medieval Times in north Jersey before, actually. It is fun.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

It's a shame we missed you on this go-round. You absolutely must come down at your next opportunity. I will cook lots of exciting food for your enjoyment.