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We'll be at the MayFaire in NY in a few weekends.  Been a long winter and glad to see it go.

Yesterday we went to Balfar's Challenge in Meriden, overall a nice day, and perfect weather.  Spent most of the day hanging out with the Christoforo's.  Little boy was too distracted to have a match with the Gremlin, which was a bit annoying. 

Got a chance to try out some SCA crossbows, which was fun.  We asked the experts to have a workshop so's we can make some.

We all went to a lantern light tour of Mystic Seaport last night.  They did a late 19th century theme, led you around to different buildings and homes, and the Charles W. Morgan.  There was a story of a treasure recovered from a shipwreck, and it end up with a horse drawn trolley ride.

All in all, it was a good program.  Our tour guide spoke a bit softly outside, but once we were inside you could hear fine.  It was easy to get immersed in the whole thing.

We scraped together some 19th century-ish outerwear, so it was almost like a rennie event.

Went to Higgins armoury museum in Worcester for the boy's 8th birthday yesterday.  Nice place, very large collection of armour and associated implements of destruction. They had some nice demos going of armoring a knight and historically accurate combat with rapier and dagger.  Wish we could have got ther sooner but it's a drive from south central CT, and tough to get the kids rolling.

Of course, the highlight for the little ones was plundering the gift shop.