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FLYING OTTER
Swwooooooooosh! Okay, so the flight was fairly boring..... except
for the cute blonde flight attendant. When I finally land in
Austin, I walk off the plane to see the freakiest group of people
I'd seen in a long time. I start to relax when I realize it's
only the flight crew. Then I see.....OTTERS!! Donna, Erika (in a
tux!!), Thomas and what's this? A sacrificial wench as a
welcoming present? For ME?!? *sigh* Okay, so she wasn't a present
for me.....but she was cute! Anyway.... we all go back to Donna's
house and eat some faboo-leux Scottish eggs that Erika made,
worried about the weekend weather and watched a little anime.
*Honey Flash!* I also gave out my very first favours and got
EekGeek and a DonnaOtter favours! Wheeeeeee!!
ROAD OTTERS
Damn....why do we always have to get up so early for these
things? It's raining as we get on the road for our 2.5 hour drive
to TRF so naturally we blame Lisa (hehehehehe). As we cruise
along in Jaime's truck, I begin to wonder.... I'm sitting here
going about 70 mph down a rain-slicked highway with a girl who
calls herself "Freak"....voluntarily, and a guy who's
nickname is "Crash". *twitch* Once we arrive, we have
to drive around twice before Donna spots the Otter banner. We
pull in, throw up the tents, finish getting dressed....okay, so
*I* finished getting dressed....jeesh, let it go willya?
TEXAS OTTERS
We sashey on into
TRF and make a beeline for the Sea Dog
Tavern where everyong is supposed to meet. From there I rush off
to Fellowship Foundry to meet Nika (who ROCKS! almost as much as
Bethany!) and pick up the Ren Geek pins that Kevin (Thanks
Gosh!!) sent down for me. When I made it back, I already had a
line waiting to take the test. *lol* I tested a whole raft of
otters from lurkers to semi-lurkers to the lovely Rose Garten
(hehehe, she kissed me!) to the
Queen Herself, Bestine (she bounces!)....um, did I
mention that I LOVE testing?!?! We
also found The Tudor Tarts,
Eizabeth and Kathy (hmmm, they didn't seem
all that tart...), Liz the RenFaire Junkie (nope...not tart
either!), Kendra (verra sweet actually), Michael Dane Harris
(could have been tart...I declined to check. *g*), Greg
Grindstaff (The Tickle God) and a host of
otters...er, others. Then it was off to
see the Corsairs. Wow....what harmonies....what
lyrics....what a large non-squeaking squeak toy they had. Or
maybe they were just glad to see me? Speaking of squeaking.....
we did ramble on over to see
Mandalyn and squeeze her toy. (*sigh* that
always makes me feel better for some reason...) Since she was
still fighting off her plague, we didn't bother her too long.
Eventually we made it back to the Sea Dog and enjoyed
the view, dove for
grapes and just generally made merriment.
WET OTTERS
We ambled around some more and then went to catch the last
Rogue's show. Then it happened. The curse of Lisa finally caught
up with us (people just don't realize the kind of power she
has...*g*). It rained. And rained. And rained. By the time we got
back to the camp site, we were all soaked and having lovely
thoughts of warm, dry hotel rooms.....well, I was anyway. But
luckily, Jaime and Donna knew some people who had an RV with a
canopy which we extended with a tarp. So we splish-splashed over,
got out of the rain (mostly) and had some food. Hot dogs, beer,
beef stew, beer, shark, beer, tuna, beer.....you know, yer
everyday after-fair faire. *g* Most of us drank and ate it....but
of course, Erika just *had* to be different and wear hers. But I
must say nobody can pull off a beef stew and mud combo like she
can. *lol*
SLEEPY OTTERS
After food, came the great "Do we stay or do we go now"
debate... since it had stopped raining, and the inside of the
tents seemed dry we decided to stay. Bad idea. About an hour
after we crawled into the tents, it started to pour...and
pour....and pour. *sigh* It was an adventure. Well, that's what
we kept telling ourselves anyway.
DRY OTTERS....MOSTLY
Sunday dawned bright and mostly dry. At least it wasn't raining
anymore. So we squished into some combination of wet and dry garb
and headed for the gate. We started off the day with a
little guerrilla shopping
and then headed over to the Sea
Dog to catch some otters. We found Liz, then Kendra and Michael
Harris.... got a Mandi favour *s* and ran across
Greg and his lovely bride a couple of times during
the day. We saw the parade
and some of the costumes there are
incredible. The rest of the afternoon was
spent shopping which doesn't make for a very exciting story, but
I did buy a hat. A grand fine hat. Technically I think it was
actually the Horniest Hat in Texas. Which is appropriate because
I was the....well, nevermind. I also picked up a kickin' new mug
made of purple heartwood. *bigkiltedhugsandsmooches* for Lori the
bonny sales wench at Wonderous Wood Works for digging up the
perfect mug and knowing what to do with that Kiss Card.....
BUH-BYE OTTERS
All too soon it was time to go....*sniff*. We made the rounds,
goodby hugs and kisses abounded, and then we made the long trek
out to the truck. The trip back to Austin was pretty uneventful
except for the McSilliness of McJaime and McDonna. :-) And so
ends my Faire season. I'm already having withdrawls and plotting
and scheming for next year.....be afraid....be VERY afraid.
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