It was a wonderful day, lots of good food, great entertainment, fun dancing, wonderful conversations. My beloved apprentice Astrid won the cloak. Her second time. I am very proud. Especially as the voting was close.
I never took photos, but others did, so I am shamelessly borrowing them, and giving credit to Ailith and Tonna
Astrid performs:
The voting station:
This year we didn’t bother finding a latter to get the Norrskensbard banner high enough to cover the entire modern art on the wall. I think if we use this site again next time, we should:
A cute photo of Tiffany, on the left, wearing my tunic and chatting with Keldor and Ailith
a bunch of us hanging out during a lull in the feast:
Keldor and I fetching food for the Royals before opening the line to the bards, followed by everyone else:
The first course of the feast:
The Princess of Nordmark makes award tokens:
Me, collecting words for the hat, for the 3-words from the Hat part of the contest:
We had plenty of heraldry up:
One of my favourite photos from the event:
It was a fun day, but, by the end of the day I was super tired, so went to bed before midnight
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