A nice weekend
Mar. 3rd, 2008 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ishikawa_ayameI was going to go to Officers Day (a SCA event) but well, I got a better offer. :D
My sister called me Friday and told me that she and sister #3 were going to go to "Japan Night" at MSU in Mankato.
So Saturday I hung around the house during the day, did some farming for Gods in FFXI, and in the afternoon grabbed my daughter and headed down to Mankato.
It was really neat, and far better than we had expected. I was half afraid that it would be 20 Anime freaks and us.
I was very glad to be mistaken.
Before we even went into to the ballroom we had fun with a big map of Japan with the names written in Hiragana. 2 of the 4 of us pretty much have that writing system down.
There were speakers, dance performances, singing and drumming.
Apparently MSU has an Anime club and we watched a presentation from them.
I saw some SCA friends there and one of them participated in the Aikido Demonstration. I knew he did Aikido but had never seen it in action. It was neat.
We didn’t get over to the booths at all, they had calligraphy a game with beans and chopsticks and I don’t remember what else.
There was food served and I tried everything and I think I liked it all.
A Fashion Show rounded up the night nicely.
Sunday, well Sunday I really did nothing but play video games with hubby and the kids. My daughter went to a friends house for a few hours.
It was a quiet Sunday, and sometimes quiet is just what you need. Ok it was not technically quiet with everyone yelling “Tango Down!” and “Grenade” but fun.
My sister called me Friday and told me that she and sister #3 were going to go to "Japan Night" at MSU in Mankato.
So Saturday I hung around the house during the day, did some farming for Gods in FFXI, and in the afternoon grabbed my daughter and headed down to Mankato.
It was really neat, and far better than we had expected. I was half afraid that it would be 20 Anime freaks and us.
I was very glad to be mistaken.
Before we even went into to the ballroom we had fun with a big map of Japan with the names written in Hiragana. 2 of the 4 of us pretty much have that writing system down.
There were speakers, dance performances, singing and drumming.
Apparently MSU has an Anime club and we watched a presentation from them.
I saw some SCA friends there and one of them participated in the Aikido Demonstration. I knew he did Aikido but had never seen it in action. It was neat.
We didn’t get over to the booths at all, they had calligraphy a game with beans and chopsticks and I don’t remember what else.
There was food served and I tried everything and I think I liked it all.
A Fashion Show rounded up the night nicely.
Sunday, well Sunday I really did nothing but play video games with hubby and the kids. My daughter went to a friends house for a few hours.
It was a quiet Sunday, and sometimes quiet is just what you need. Ok it was not technically quiet with everyone yelling “Tango Down!” and “Grenade” but fun.
