Arizona Renaissance Festival, weekend #1
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asthranI don't really know where to begin....
Work went well. It appears I'll mostly be working out of the tertiary Chocolate Makers booth, Exotic Fruits and Nuts. I did a fair amount of prep this weekend, designing bowls of strawberries, then artfully pouring triple and white chocolate over them. On Saturday, a couple of coworkers got called away for the birth of their first grandchild, so I was sent to the Joust booth to help at the counter, doing sales and learning the products there. On Sunday, I went into the street to hawk while our hawker was on his lunch break, and ended up doing that for most of the rest of the day.
I had a kick-ass time hawking. We give out samples of our house blend of "triple chocolate" - wooden coffee stir-sticks dipped in warm chocolate - and I'd one of those and eat loudly and messily in the street. I'd run up to a group of people, leap in front of them, and yell, "Oh my god! They're giving away samples of chocolate!!!" I'd tell groups of women to "demand what is rightfully yours as women: Chocolate!" If someone looked grumpy, I'd tell them chocolate would cheer them up. At the end of the day, I laid down in the lane, arranged my arms, and told people to follow the arrow to CHOCOLATE! Really, the key is to put everything in relation to chocolate: What's two times two? More chocolate!
*laughs*
Anyway, more general info on ARF...
The site is fairly standard, as far as renfaires look... similar booths, similiar feeling to the lanes.... there aren't any succulents on site, just trees and bushes and the like. For people familiar with MN, there is a Bear statue here. Across from my booth is a really neat sculpture, I'll try to find a picture of it somewhere.
Entertainment... I haven't any familiarity with the entertainment here, yet. I saw a couple pirates do a bit in the lane just past my booth... I couldn't hear much of what they said, but the guy ended up drawing his pistol and then they went to go duel someplace less crowded. I saw the last 5 minutes of Three Guys & Lots of Drums, that was pretty cool - I'll have to go see the rest of their act. I saw all but the last ten minutes of Dancing in the Isles... their stagework could have been a lot better, but I saw a dance I liked... Lady Lilly's Ransom, I believe.
On a more personal level, that ball guy is here and we're getting along well.... I am happy. Yay!
Work went well. It appears I'll mostly be working out of the tertiary Chocolate Makers booth, Exotic Fruits and Nuts. I did a fair amount of prep this weekend, designing bowls of strawberries, then artfully pouring triple and white chocolate over them. On Saturday, a couple of coworkers got called away for the birth of their first grandchild, so I was sent to the Joust booth to help at the counter, doing sales and learning the products there. On Sunday, I went into the street to hawk while our hawker was on his lunch break, and ended up doing that for most of the rest of the day.
I had a kick-ass time hawking. We give out samples of our house blend of "triple chocolate" - wooden coffee stir-sticks dipped in warm chocolate - and I'd one of those and eat loudly and messily in the street. I'd run up to a group of people, leap in front of them, and yell, "Oh my god! They're giving away samples of chocolate!!!" I'd tell groups of women to "demand what is rightfully yours as women: Chocolate!" If someone looked grumpy, I'd tell them chocolate would cheer them up. At the end of the day, I laid down in the lane, arranged my arms, and told people to follow the arrow to CHOCOLATE! Really, the key is to put everything in relation to chocolate: What's two times two? More chocolate!
*laughs*
Anyway, more general info on ARF...
The site is fairly standard, as far as renfaires look... similar booths, similiar feeling to the lanes.... there aren't any succulents on site, just trees and bushes and the like. For people familiar with MN, there is a Bear statue here. Across from my booth is a really neat sculpture, I'll try to find a picture of it somewhere.
Entertainment... I haven't any familiarity with the entertainment here, yet. I saw a couple pirates do a bit in the lane just past my booth... I couldn't hear much of what they said, but the guy ended up drawing his pistol and then they went to go duel someplace less crowded. I saw the last 5 minutes of Three Guys & Lots of Drums, that was pretty cool - I'll have to go see the rest of their act. I saw all but the last ten minutes of Dancing in the Isles... their stagework could have been a lot better, but I saw a dance I liked... Lady Lilly's Ransom, I believe.
On a more personal level, that ball guy is here and we're getting along well.... I am happy. Yay!
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Date: 2005-02-08 12:16 am (UTC)Glad you are having fun. It's all about the theatrics.
You still have my CD and I still have your tape. We should arange something.
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Date: 2005-02-10 09:28 pm (UTC)Crap, there was a CD missing then? Which one was it?
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Date: 2005-02-10 11:39 pm (UTC)Starlyn says you two fit very nicely together.
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Date: 2005-02-14 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-15 12:03 am (UTC)Remember when I was going through them next to Borders, I showed you that one of the sleeves was on the wrong CD?
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Date: 2005-02-23 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-23 04:18 am (UTC)I lent you two volumes. you gave one back in the other's sleeve.
Hope you are having a good time despite the rain.
All this rain is really unusual for here. They say we've already had 3 times tha amount we are supposed to get for the whole year.
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Date: 2005-02-08 04:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-09 02:10 am (UTC)I guess the connection between our phones is just bad. Comment on my LJ about what you were talking about.
Have fun with Starlyn last night?