June 17-19: Weekend Roundup - Dancing Queens

So yeah, it was another exhausting weekend, hence the lateness of this post. But, we'll make it up to you. A new weekend video, chock full of our adventures with out of town friends to a Renaissance Faire, Ikea (I was impressed), and finally a Carnival. More videos to follow of this week.

I used to be a big history buff, to tell the truth. Before I assumed this science persona, I had my own military history club in high school. I was the Medieval era guy in the group. We would spend my weekends making armor to use in mock combat games, and wrapping pieces of bamboo with duct tape to use as swords and axes. I liked the history and anachronism of the whole thing. I even originally planned on majoring in History in college (until I realized how much money Chemical Engineers make).
This Renaissance faire was familiar, but markedly different. I've been to my share of RenFaire type shindigs, but then I saw fairies, the grim reaper, a dragon, an orc, an elf, and Link from the Zelda game series. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Hey, I love Lord of the Rings, but I just didn't expect to see Frodo Baggins running away from a pirate. Fun times though.

For me, it was my first trip to Ikea, with my prior exposure to Swedish things limited to ABBA and the Swedish Chef from the Muppets.

But it was fun, much more than I expected. One thing I noticed about that store, is that there's an abundance of nice, new clothes in all the closets. Most are just my size. Would they really notice if some of it was missing? Or if a customer walks in dressed like a hobo, and leaves decked out like a GQ magazine cover? I don't think so. Oh, Sweden.

Oh, and the food at Ikea. Good, but not as amazing as people claim. I've made better meatballs, just saying. I was a fan of the lingonberry juice. Tart, but with a smoother sweetness than cranberry juice.

That was most of our weekend. Very fun, but left me a little drained. More posts from the ensuing week to follow. Keep an eye out for that.