Birka is Over

The Market Day at Birka event revolves around the merchants. On Saturday there was fighting, meetings, the fashion show, and the arts and sciences display with dancing and bardic at night after court. The merchants are open Friday evening, all day Saturday and through Sunday afternoon. Many merchants do tend to pack up and leave early, but others stay to get as many sales as they can. So today I visited with a few merchants and friends as well as packing up. Other happy things from today:

• Keziah and I also had a guild meeting to attend. The SCA has guilds for people wanting to learn specific things along a particular path. This morning our local group officially received a charter to be part of the Guild of Foresters. This guild is basically to learn about outdoor living during the middle ages. We got to see new members join and others advance in rank. Our main reason to attend was to sign the charter saying that Stonemarche now has its own group of Foresters.

• Spending time with people and participating in the event this weekend was good, but so was getting home. The introvert in me was ready to be home and hotels are nice but I am looking forward to being in my own bed.
• Many people this weekend felt better about attending because of the air purifiers that Keziah worked so hard to obtain.  Many of them had signs on them with names or dedications.  One funny one that I saw was from 'Sir Phil Tration.' 

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Currently listening to: The Awakening, by Nora Roberts


Currently reading: Fallen, by E Prybylski

Thank you for being part of my happy things. Stay safe.