NOWM was my first-ever camping event, 8 or 9 years ago. I went two years in a row, then haven't been able to go back, first because no one I knew wanted to go and I didn't want to go by myself, and later due to dog-sitting problems. They allow dogs, but Tyler used to be too high-strung to take to events. He's finally mellowed (at the age of 15, I'd say it's about time) and now he can easily go.
We try to make him comfortable in the car.
He had a good time - he was in a pleasant mood, often wagging his tail and curiously exploring, and he generated lots of attention and petting, as many people who saw him wanted to come pet him, since he's so cute. But he was pretty exhausted by this morning ... as evidenced by these before and after pictures.
Ready to go on a road trip ...
Ready to come home and go to bed ...
We had a good time too. We finally broke down and bought a new, decent-sized tent ...
... all our previous tents have been nowhere near really big enough for two people at an SCA event, which is why for a long time we set up two separate tents, a kind of odd thing for a couple to do. The new one worked out very, very nicely - I'm pleased.
Robin ran the kavehane (Turkish coffee shop and bardic outlet) most of the day.
I almost didn't go since NOAA was calling for a 60% chance of thunderstorms, possibly severe, on Saturday and Saturday night. I'm glad I decided to chance it, as the only thing it did was sprinkle lightly a few times during the day, then there was one pretty torrential downpour with some nice lightning, little thunder, and no severity at all, sometime after 10:00. It did kind of put a damper on Saturday night for me, though, and I ended up going to bed, but that was okay - I'd had a great Friday night and Saturday, and by the time the storm hit I was pretty toasty anyway, so bed was a decent place to be.
But a good time was had by all, including Tyler, so it was a winner.
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