<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Friends and Neighbors of the Southern Region of Ansteorra:</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">With this email The Shire of the Shadowlands welcomes you to Fall Ball in the Small Hall IV: Bakers' Bransle!! It will be a day of games, classes, and combat followed by a European Ball in the evening of Saturday, January 28th.<BR><BR>The kitchen staff is celebrating Bruegel style with active games, scanvenger hunt, melon bocce as well as table top games. Classes will be themed to food and cookin<SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=text_exposed_show>g and will include a dance refresher for those who wish to take part in the evening dances. There are rumors of goat racing and boffer food fight barrier battles. Martial activities dependent on attendance. </SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=text_exposed_show>Please post to the Shadowlands email list (<A style="RIGHT: auto" href="mailto:shadowlandssca@yahoogroups.com">shadowlandssca@yahoogroups.com</A>), the Shire's Event page (<A href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/269307079797213/">http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/269307079797213/</A>), or contact the Stewards if you'd like to teach a class (any genre welcome). Please also let us know if you would be interested in chivalric or rapier activities.<BR><BR>After the days activities, bring a dish to share (feeds 4-6) at the potluck. The Shire will provide a meat dish. There is a full kitchen on site. Contact Lady Isolde (Lauren Norman) regarding the potluck. Please bring utensils to serve your contribution. </SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=text_exposed_show>The event will be held at the lovely Clubhouse in Eastside Park in Hearne, TX. It has tables and chairs. The site is dry. <BR><BR>Finally, we will clear the tables for a rousing dance ball in the evening featuring our 4th annual dance champion Bransle Off c<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>ompetition. <BR><BR>Event Stewards:<BR>Kite (Colleen Fisher) and Caitlin la Bouche (Caitlin Wise)<BR><BR>Site Fee: $5<BR>Site Set up at 8am; Contact Lady Kolfinna (Kira Langsjoen) to help with set up/take down.<BR><BR>Directions from Bryan/College Station:<BR>North on TX-6 N/US-190 W. <BR>Turn left onto W Brenken St (at the McDonalds)<BR>Take the 2nd right onto Cedar St. <BR>Take the 1st right onto W Brown St (Business 79 to the left; FM 391 to the right). Take the overpass and drive 0.7 mi.<BR>Turn left onto Norwood Ln ; drive 0.3 mi.<BR>Take the 1st
right onto Golf Course St into Eastside Park.<BR>Follow the road .1 miles past the pool/playground to the Clubhouse building.</SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=text_exposed_show>I hope many of you will join us for the food, fun, festivities, friends, fighting, and the dance! Let's shake the snow off our boots and have a grand ol' time.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Lady kolfinna in kyrra Otarsdottir<BR>Kira S. Langsjoen<BR>Shadowlands Exchequer<BR></div></div></body></html>