The Ides

Well, as many of you know, I went to a great event yesterday called the Ides of March! Wow! It was a TOTAL BLAST! =D I met a ton of people, hunted some great boxes, and got rid of the rest of my LTCs that I made...

So, X Marks the Spot and I were supposed to go to a running-jogging-walking thing. Well... the weather was TERRIBLE: windy and rainy and just flat out nasty.... So, we didn't take a two hour drive to Portland at 6 in the morning in the nasty weather after staying up 11 the previous night.

So, we waited till a little later... the hunting for boxes were supposed to start at 10 am, but we got there at about 1:15, which was 30 minutes before the linner (lunch/dinner) started. We got talking with Maiden and Marmalade and the coffee cake was so dang good that we left about 1:40...

We hunted one box, which had a great stamp =D We huried up and got money for the linner and headed to the restaurant. We got there only to find about 7 people inking up and stamping on the front of the Weatherlys car. It was another great stamp =D

After stamping in, we walked in to find a TON of people. They started it off with a game of Clue- Roman Edition... No one solved it within the time limit, so they drew names from a hat. I didn't win, but X did. So, he let me have the prize: a custom logbook from Camp Fire Lady! Oh, it looks amazing! Thanks, Camp Fire Lady =D

Lunch was awesome too! Very tasty pasta and bread! We sat at the table with Wildhair and her husband, 4 Ch, and Fenghuang.

After lunch, I exchanged with a bunch of people... Oh man it was great! So many nice people at one time! I missed exchanging with a few people, unfortunately... but I'm hoping to exchange with them at the Spring Flinger...

My Midsummer Night Dream stamp was not stamping too well... I think it all depended on the ink pad, whether a roller was used or not, and the texture of paper... I am hoping to have all that good stuff working well at the Flinger...

Anyways, I was sad that it had to end.... but I had a great time when it was going on... Afterwards, we went and hunted three other boxes for the event, and we only missed out on one of the three, which I think had been pulled earlier in the day... we headed back to Marmalade's house where we had a little afterparty and I got to exchange with Der Mad Stamper and his little Monkey boxing buddy =)

I got one more box at Marm's house and said goodbye... we had to head home.... sigh... but I'm sure we'll be back to Portland sooner or later... =)

~BOB~