[Ansteorra] Event Tales

[Aingeal]

Yes this was Queen's Children at Keller's Camp in Glen Rose.  I worked that 
event and the winds picked up so bad that our pavilion was hit with micro 
burst that wrapped our 2" poles around a tree.  They are still there last 
time I was at the camp.

Aingeal Mac an Ghabhann
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hillary Greenslade" <hillaryrg at yahoo.com>
To: <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Event Tales


>> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:40:21 -0500
>> From: Michael Silverhands <silverhands at sbcglobal.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Mud Star (was First Event)
>> To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
>>
>> Is that the event where Jenny was found in her tent, on an air
>> mattress, floating in about 6" of water... *sound asleep*?
>>
>> Am I remembering the right event?
>> Michael
>>
> Could have been the same event, but I remember the Kingdom Children's 
> Event, up in Elfsea.  They
> had lots of rain the weeks before, and the ground had drained but was 
> saturated.  Cadi was in
> charge of the event, but fell ill, so Rhondri took the 5 kids up and 
> handled Cadi's role.
> It was a fabulous event, I did a class on 'Waterbearing for Kids' - 30min. 
> of serious talk on
> waterbearing and 30min. for a waterpistol fight.  Cadfan had taken a 
> falcon up for an hour long
> class on period falconry, and I thought there is no way these kids will 
> sit still long enough to
> listen - but they enraptured and totally involved.   The day went really 
> well.
>
> The site was a camp that ran by a river, and dropped down to the river in 
> a series of steps.  I
> think we were camping at the second level down from the top, the camp area 
> was a bit lower than
> the road, and later we found out it made a sorta lake.  You could see how 
> high the water had been
> previous weeks in the river, from the trash up in the branches of the very 
> tall trees.
>
> Rhodri and the kids each setup their own tent - 1 for him, 5 yellow bubble 
> popups, one for each
> child - all in a little row.  In the early morning, around 4am, the wind 
> began to blow, I remember
> as I woke and went to secure the waterbearer table area, as we were to do 
> a Heavy champions battle
> on Sunday to pick the next 'Defender of the Children'. As I went back to 
> bed the rain started and
> I hoped it would stop by full morning; but woke an hour later, finding 
> myself floating in a foot
> of water. As I stood in the water and muttered to myself, I heard either 
> Maleah or Xene in an
> adjacent tent with her kids - scream - 'It's Flooding', as they awoke.
>
> The camp was awake!  Rain was coming down solid, everyone immediately 
> started packing vehicles up.
> Rhodri went to get his truck while the kids started packing up their gear, 
> and he asked me to keep
> an eye on them while I packed up my camp.   When he got back, he was in a 
> hurry to load as much as
> he could in the bed of the truck, rain still coming down.  While I went 
> back to my own camp, I
> kept one eye on his kids.  Four little yellow bubble popups had been 
> deflated and were being
> packed up, four blond kids running around like ants while Rhodri was 
> packing the heavy gear and
> kitchen; I think the oldest was around 10.
>
> Suddenly Rhodri stopped what he was doing and started counting the kids, 
> index finger pointed at
> each one - '1,2,3,4...hum...1,2,3,4...I'm missing one.'.  He looked over 
> at the growing 'lake' and
> 2/3rds of a yellow bubble tent was still showing above the water with the 
> door closed.
> Understandably paniced, Rhodri ran out into the lake, opened the zipper, 
> saw the girl-child
> floating on an airmattress - still sound asleep amidst all the noise of 
> camps packing - perfectly
> content.  Rhodri paused a minute, realizing she was perfectly safe, not 
> going anywhere (tent was
> still staked), and then he rezipped the tent and left her there; as he 
> went about packing.
>
> Funniest thing I ever saw!  I think the girl-child was Sherry, but could 
> have been Jenny.
> She eventually woke on her own a little bit later, with a start, as I 
> think she rolled off her
> airmattress into the water.
>
> Needless to say, the Defender of the Children tourney did not occur due to 
> rain.
> That Children's event was one I'll not forget.
>
> Cheers, Hillary
>
>
>
>
>
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