Our last weekend in Delaware

[fbhjr]

Friday after work we set off for the last of our three weekends in Delaware.
As was true of the other weeks, Friday evening is not good time to get past New York city.





There were a LOT of people trying to find a way around traffic so the GPS system was overloaded. It would say there was a good route, but the specifics were not really useful.


But, we did get past NYC, over the river and down to Delaware.


We had one of our new recruits join us for this job. She drove down with the others and we all met at the hotel.


Then, off to the faire site.


This week we shared the stage with the other fight group and a bird show.





At one show, the hawk took a great interest in one of the audience members with a turkey leg.


It took a while for the hawk to let go and be sent back to its perch.


As we knew it was going to be dark at the end of our last show, we brought "special weapons" to finish that show.



Once fully dark we broke out all of my light sabers and our friend Dom, who does competitive lightsaber combat, brought his and we had some fun.













It gets dark early these days, so even after we were all tired out, we had time to drive off to where we were staying and have dinner.




Sunday was cold. Under freezing when we set out, but still pretty.


We stopped for breakfast and then headed through the swamp to the faire.





Different people dealt with the cold in different ways.






Because we packed up Sunday night, we went home Monday.
It was nice to drive in the sunlight…



The photos from the show are in two groups because the ones from Saturday at sunset I thought were nice enough to get their own gallery:

The Saturday night photos:
https://phoenixswords.dreamwidth.org/7096.html

The show photos:
https://phoenixswords.dreamwidth.org/7292.html

Comments

[ravena_kade]

I would never have guessed that you would wield red light saber. Did your eyes turn yellow?

[fbhjr]

My eyes do turn yellow when I get very angry. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen.
Saturday I was having fun, so no, they didn’t.

And, I used two blue, one yellow and a purple in addition to the red. But, Palpatine’s red was the best way to beat Dom and his sports sabers. It turns on the quickest so I could wait with it off and light it up mid swing…

[ravena_kade]

That's really cool about Palpatine's saber being able to light mid swing.... cunning...very cunning.

[fbhjr]

It has buttons to turn it on instead of a slide switch. It’s much easier to hit the button when swinging it than the push the slide the right way. The Kenobi blue slide is fairly easy and almost as good. The Duku blue, or Rey yellow are almost impossible to side when swinging and hard to find if you’re just standing there holding it. The purple I made on my own at Galaxy’s edge is good, but not Palpatine good…

[fbhjr]

You can see me do it to him a lot in the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p__6DnO_sOo

It’s a bit unfair as his can’t do that trick. But, if you’re using Palpatine’s light saber, unfair might not fit with the theme…

[ravena_kade]

Fun =)

[threemeninaboat]

There's a box of those light sabers in my living room because our friend got them for her husband for his birthday and had them shipped here but they are sick with the flu so ... I guess I can't play with them.

[fbhjr]

Sad.
If you’re out this way again you are welcome to play with some of mine…