The past weekend in Seattle was beautiful and sunny, simply glorious. Everyone was doing their best to take advantage of it, Henry and myself included. To get ready for the warm weather, we both got our haircut. Mine was a corrective action for a very unfortunate student haircut I got last week. It was a little shocking to lose half my hair unintentionally, but I think it turned out ok.
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| Short hair!!! |
We took our new haircuts for a walk and some outside dining.
Last Christmas my dad made me a
Kubb set, and I hadn't had a change to use it yet. On Sunday afternoon, Henry and I took it to Gas Works Park to try it out. For the uninitiated, Kubb is a lawn game that involves throwing sticks at each other.
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| Kite hill |
As any sunny day, Gas Works was bustling. It is still on our to-do list to acquire and fly an awesome kite. Maybe next week...
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| View from Kite hill. |
We got our game set up, and commenced the stick throwing.
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| I was still winning when this was taken... |
The game consists of a lot of wooden blocks, which can be kind of awkward to carry around. Although I only live 2 blocks from the park, it's still long enough to be inconvenient. Enter the blue beast. The blue beast is an old suitcase that I brought back to Seattle from NE when I needed more suitcase space than planned. It was supposed to enter retirement at that point, but has been pulled out to serve as my Kubb carrying case. Henry was delighted to carry it around the park, needing to take a break halfway there.
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| Blue beast in action |
Of course, we weren't the only people in the park getting some looks. In our search to find a suitable field for our game in the park, we came across some "knights" in training.
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| Lancelot v. Galahad |
My thoughts: it was way too warm to be wearing all that armor.
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| For Guinevere! |
Funny times.
3 comments:
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.
I think the ...ahem... proper term for all that knight action is larping (Live Action Role Playing). I am such a nerd for knowing that! There used to be quite an dedicated group of larpers who did their thing in Manhattan's City Park... made for some interesting viewing when our church picnics coincided with their "battles".
Henry is a beast for carrying that suitcase through the park!
Do you know the woman in the white tank and scarf (blue beast break pic) or did she just think you sincerely wanted a picture of her?
That knight action for whatever reason reminds me of when those guys were caber tossing at Bethel...
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