Recap: Castle Life

The party is begun this noon. Or rather, for me it started pretty early because I've decided to bake the stuff this morning so that it will be very fresh. Went over at ten to Kate's to help set up. Decorating is fun. Cooking is okay within a reasonable limit. Organizing get-togethers can go waaay over my head but things seemed to pull together at the last minute alright. The room looked nice, the people liked the food (which was healthy, like, OMG!) and we watched KING ARTHUR which was nice and fitting.

Anna came back last night after spending to weeks with only her father and seem quite…I'm not sure if "thrilled" is the right word to use here…to see us. In other words, she behaved as if the atmospherically existing blend of around 20% oxygen was highly intoxicating and giggled hysterically at random intervals. I don't know. If I can get her to giggle like mad just by saying the word "squishy" (blame the father, I guess) the she can pretty much giggle about anything.

Kate, after four hours of sleep and two hours of pulling the event together, was her usual cheerful self. With a little more of the sarcasm, perhaps. Lucy was a knight. In shining armor. Which was plastic. Like her sword and her helmet. Both her helmet and the armor have warnings written on it that roughly translates to: "this is a toy and won't protect you from any dire circumstances."

Christine was her astonishing pyromaniac self, playing with the candles and whatnot. (Come to think of it, we're really quite lucky nothing got set on fire by accident.) Ashley was there to fill us in on all parts of the movie which we neglected due to our own digression, having watched it a few times before herself.

Was fun. Now am waiting for Lucy's pictures (having used her camera) to edit. Please send me everything Lucy, don't delete anything until I've seen it. (Consider it artistic-over-interest.) Forgot, Kate, if you took one of the little colored slips that I was handing out. If not, here's a copy.

So it goes.