Enjoy, sugarplums.
(Like last year, I'm not in them much since I was the one with the camera.
Oh, and give it a minute to load, cuz there's about 150 pics here.
Liz
Tre
Riva
Vaerna
Turkey Eyes
Alana 
and
Maddy
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FridayOn Friday we hung out at Tre’s house. We were supposed to go camping that night, but we were having too much fun hot tubbing and eating sushi to bother.
whee 
Maddy, Turkey Eyes, and the dogs were chillaxin’ on (and around) the couch.
(Turkey is currently being informed by a shiny, red, noise-makin’ thang, that the cow goes “moo”. ^_^)
Tre and Alana were in the kitchen making sushi.
4laugh Riva and I were in the kitchen eating all their sushi.
blaugh 
Then Tre got out a bunch of fabric scraps and whatnot and we worked on our Amazon costumes.
(+ Caesar…..
ninja )
Then we dipped into the hot tub for a while, dragged our sleeping bags and stuff up to Tre’s room (which is way cool, by the way), watched Tre n’ Rivas
Xena barbie movie, and hit the hay.
SaturdayWelcome to Amamzon country!
The site was very big and VERY isolated and it was right on the river! ^.^
We shimmied into our costumes right away. It’s was a lot of fun.
(But Alana lost her top, so she didn’t shimmy into her costume till later. T.T )
Then began the sun dance of the Amazons!
surprised (That's a graham cracker, that Turkey has in her mouth.
rolleyes )
Why yes. We
are Amazon. And yes. We
could kick your a**.
Amazon Training! ….Are those… sit-ups?
sweatdrop 
Lunch.
(Don’t ask us why there’s a person on our table.
mrgreen )
(Oh right. Cell phone service.
xp )
More Amazon training.
xd Tre vs. Alana
Lala’s real scary in a fight (you should hear her war cry
eek ), but Tre came out on top.
“Who’s next!?
cool “
“I’ll take you on, ye devilish scallywag!
pirate “
Wait a sec. o_O I think we’re veering away from Amazon, here.
ninja Riva vs. Tre
Tre wins again.
rolleyes Turkey Eyes vs. Alana
(Short lived, but fun.)
No winner. They both quit after 2 rounds.
rofl ZOMFGBBQ! Amazons in the trees!
(Turkey actually fell asleep on that branch. It’s a miracle she didn’t fall into the river. ^^
Or maybe not…. Maybe it was
AMAZON SKILLZ!
whee )
We put this up on a stake along the shoreline, at our site.
Fishermen BEWARE! This is Amazon territory. cool 
We swam, we painted eachothers faces, we climbed tree’s, we sword fought, we played chakram frisbee, we napped, we cooked over the campfire, and at one point when it started raining suddenly, we grabbed our barley off the fire, huddled in the tent, and ate it out of the pan.
4laugh Saturday night, we sat around the camp fire baking potatoes, reading ghost stories, playing music (we had a guitar and a couple bongo drums), talking about serial killers, yelling at fishermen, and speculating about the weird noises in the woods. (By the way ladies,
it was a coyote. Not an
owl. Not a
”manbeast” coming to kill us. A
coyote.)
It was a great night.
blaugh 
(Part way through the night, we ran oughta firewood, so Treana and I went out into the forest to saw up some dead tree's. But it had rained, so when we were wandering around out there (shoe-less) I stepped into a big old mud hole.
mad p But I digress.
ninja )
After a while, Riva got us kinda nervous, insisting that whatever was making the noise in the forest, was human. So we got ourselves revved up, armed ourselves with every weapon we had (which was a LOT), and readied ourselves for a fight. A couple people even yelled into the woods, daring him/it to attack the tribe.
xd Later on, me, Riva, and Alana were so hyped up for a fight that we started wishing someone
would attack, just so we could kick their a**.
whee The last of us meandered off to bed around 4am.
SundayWe took a vote and decided to pack up on Sunday, to spend the last night at Tre’s house, where we could have our Xenathon. But we spent our last morning at the site well. ^_^
Things picked up a bit as morning turned into afternoon.
3nodding 
(Vaerna’s got moves.
cool )
Tre’s dad came by to help us pack up. I like her parents. They’re good folk.
3nodding (I just wish I’d gotten a pic of her mom too.
xp )
We kept saying we weren’t gonna go back in. We were just lying to ourselves all day.
xd 
We ended up staying till early evening.
mrgreen I was sad to go, but it was fantastic while it lasted.
3nodding 
On Sunday night, we had our sword fighting tournament!
heart (I have it on video, but it’s an old camera and I don’t think I can get it online.
crying But I’m gonna try to get my uncle to burn the tape into a DVD (he can do s**t like that
xd ). If he does I can get it online and I’ll try to send a copy to everyone who was there.
4laugh )
Anyways, we played bongo drums and did all kinds of war cries, from the sidelines.
twisted And we all had black war paint on our faces. And we fought in a ring, laid out in the middle of Tre’s street.
Since we had 6 people instead of 8, it was a little wonky with the
tournament thing.
sweatdrop One of the losers from the 1st round got a 2nd chance. (And she went on and beat me, the jerk!
scream )
Kidding Lala.
xd So here’s how it went…. (We drew names from a hat to see who would fight who.)
Round 1:Riva vs. Turkey Eyes
Winner – Turkey
Liz vs. Alana
Winner – Liz
Treana vs. Vae
Winner – Tre
Round 2:Turkey Eyes vs. Liz
Winner – Liz
Treana vs. Alana
Winner – Alana
Round 3:
To decide the Amazon queen.Liz vs. Alana
Winner – ALANA
So Lala got the shmancy prize and became queen of our Amazon tribe. Much jumping, screaming, and scary war faces ensued.
heart 
Then Alana mixed up some Henna in the kitchen for Mhendi tattoos.
I got a scorpion on my hand.
4laugh 
Then we went down to the basement and watched a buncha episodes of Xena. (Including some Amazon eps, of course.
whee ) The next day we ate a yummy pancakey breakfast and then went our separate ways.
And thus, our Amazon adventure comes to an end.
See yall next year!
heart *Several Amazons were harmed during the production of this convention. But it was totally worth it. xd *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
