1. It is really strange going to an event 5 minutes from your house. And not needing to be there until Troll opened at 10.

2. Spent a lot of time talking to sunniva_kyrre about signet stuff and herald stuff. Good, productive conversation.

3. Mary informed the head waterbearer that she was trained and had earned her license to be a waterbearer, and showed off her household waterbearer favor. She spent the entire tourney waterbearing. The fighters thought she was really cute, and loved the way she ordered them not to put their mouths on the spouts.

4. Met a few people I hadn't met before, and got to put some names to faces...that was really cool. Even met one of the people that is doing my challenge for St Lukes, and got to talk about that for a bit.

5. Sat in the Bad Peers corner for Court, and got caught napping when Mary got called in. I had to go get her from where she was playing with the other kids. The Baron and Baroness gave her their personal token for all the work she had done on the field during the day, and thanked her for her service. I think I am raising a little pelican-to-be here. Both ladies were thrilled with the scrolls I did, and it cracked me up when one of them told me she was so excited to get a scroll form a *Laurel*!! Laurels don't *do* baronial Scrolls!! (Guess I proved that wrong, I have done 3 so far here...)

6. Stayed for feast. Peaches-nom, nom, nom!!! Peaches over the almond pie--NOM, NOM, NOM!!! the rest of the feast wasn't bad either :) Mary didn't eat much, but I didn't expect her to.

7. Mary helped a lot with clean up after the feast--folding chairs and putting them away, sweeping the floor, helping mop the floor...She cried when I made her leave 2 hours past her bedtime...there was still work to do!

Someone is doing my Challenge for St. Lukes!!!

I was beginning to worry that it was too much and no one wanted to attempt it, or that (being my paranoid self) nobody liked me. But all is happiness now!

See the website for all the cool challenges that are being offered
http://st-lukes.gallowglass.org/

To quote from the email that was waiting for me when I got home from Khural:

"Hi there,

Just wanted to make sure you got my message--you're the next Laurel."

The BoD has chosen me as the next Laurel Sovereign of Arms.