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2009-03-15

To the Winch, Wench

Filed under: General — 19day @ 23:55:24

For Vera’s birthday, we went to Medieval Times, which is something I’ve wanted to go to for a long while, though I hadn’t thought of it for years. Though of course the first trick was to get down there, which was further away than I first thought. I’m not particularly adept at getting around via busses and streetcars as I’m not particularly aware of them or the routes. So I got a general gist of where the place was, which was beyond the exhibition area and I figured I could find it from the ground.

I headed to Union and there were all sorts of helpful signs saying “This way to Exhibition streetcar” and the last stop was called Exhibition loop, it was hard to get it wrong, and in a twist, I didn’t. Though once I arrived, I wasn’t sure where to go. I thought the roof of the place was multicoloured and that I’d be able to spot it, but it’s actually just red. I was mistaken due to seeing the roof from google maps across VPN into work, which I had set to a low colour, and it was zoomed out, so all of that made it look different than it was. And besides, I couldn’t really spot it from the ground anyway. I was hoping for “This was to Medival Times” but found none. I did find some map kiosks around, but none of them told me where I was on it, so I only had a vague idea where I was given the giant building I was next to, but couldn’t decide on a bearing, and ended up going the complete wrong way. I had maybe 15 minutes left until the meeting time, so I figured I wouldn’t make it, but as I was walking back, Chez and Alicia drove up, having spotted me. Even heading in the right direction, I still would have had problems finding it.

So we arrived, and went into the ticket line, but it was kind of baffling. They asked us for a confirmation number, which we had, and then asked if we had tickets, which we didn’t (or rather, Vera had the tickets). I was confused why they would ask those questions in that order, and even when we got the tickets from Vera when she arrived, and waited for others to turn up, we still didn’t know what the point of the tickets was, but it was later discovered that the tickets had to be redeemed for table marker things. We were Green 18, and eventually were seated, and we were dead last to arrive, the show started almost immediately after.

The stadium is divided into 6 segments, each a different colour, Red, Blue, Yellow, Red and Yellow, Black and White, and Green. There are also the six knights with those colours, and we were to cheer for ours and boo the others. We were seated in the very back row possible in the Green section, but it was still a good side to be on since it was the side of the stadium with the entrance for the horses, and above that the King and Queen high table, so we got to see more than some people closer to the front but on the far side of the stadium.

It was very dark in the back row, and our serving wench (which is how she introduced herself) overfilled some of our glasses. The meal was served in stages over the middle section of the show. The start of the show had some plot, but at the heart of the mealtime the show was mostly entertainment in the form I anti-euphamistically call horse torturing. Well, they had the horses running canters in circles and had them do different runs and walks, including the Spanish walk which was pretty dramatic looking. The meal itself started with Tomato Bisque, then a half roast chicken, a spare rib, half a seasoned baked potato, garlic bread and an apple pastry. All were eaten with the hands, and for us, in the dark. I have lots of food aversions, but I enjoyed the meal, the chicken was greasy and I didn’t like the leg bits much, but there was good breast meat. The spare rib was fatty at times but I enjoyed it, and all the rest was good.

As the plot developed, it turned out that our guy, the Green Knight, was the antagonist of the show, and the badass. Some of our group lamented that fact, but I liked it, as our knight was really the only one with personality. The rest were just Knights of the Realm, but our guy had an agenda and was memorable. I mean, we knew he had to be defeated in the end, but it was still fun shouting out “You Go Green” and “Down with the king”, I regret nothing. The show lasted around 2 hours, and my voice was struggling near the end. We were also witness to a proposal made just before the show, and we were generally of the opinion that we would not have done that ourselves.

After the show we went to Demetre’s, closeby to my apartment, and were given another show by our waiter who wowed us with his memory skills. We all ordered, but out of order in terms of going one way or the other around the table, and all ordered different things, and the waiter wasn’t writing anything down. Someone piped up at the end “You’re not going to remember this, are you?” and he took that challenge, and recited all of our orders instantly. We applauded. I walked home after that and cracked into some Macadamia nuts that Alicia got me from Hawaii. She also got me a pen with wood elements and it has my name engraved on it, along with Hawaiian form, Kawana. As it is one of the few pens in my apartment that actually works, I’ll be using it, and when it fails, I’ll put it on my bookshelf of memories.

Celebrating the first blog post in a while not computer-related.

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