[Ponte Alto] sapphire joust thanks

[Irwin]

Well gee Thank You! How nice.

I was not able to attend Sapphire this year but what you experienced is not 
an aberration for our Barony but an active philosophy that we do our best to 
uphold. Each and every member of the Barony is expected to welcome all 
newcomers and visitors as if they were the chatelaine/castellan. We try to 
be good neighbors and treat others as we would wish to be treated.

I hope that if you are in our area you'll will attend an event or if nearer 
one of our weekly activities.

Thank you for the feedback!


YIS,

Lady Perronelle la peintre
mka Debbie Irwin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Caswell" <bmc at shmoo.com>
To: "The Barony of Ponte Alto" <ponte-alto at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 9:45 PM
Subject: [Ponte Alto] sapphire joust thanks


>I wanted to pass a word of thanks to those of you that camped with
> Ponte Alto at Sapphire Joust this year.  We were the shy family
> camped next to Ponte Alto, with the infant, two kids, and the bus.
>
> My wife and I noticed a number of things about your group.
>
> Everyone was very gracious in regards to our infant.  While we tried
> to keep him as calm as could be, it was *very* hot this weekend.
> This was his first experience outside of A.C. and so he's adjusting.
> What we thought was fever was him disliking heat.  By Sunday
> afternoon, he was quite happy, having become accustomed to it.
>
> There was no bitching.  Normally, when my wife and I overhear people
> discussing an event, a decent amount of it revolves around "This part
> sucked, and that part sucked, and OMG did you see that horrid outfit
> that girl was wearing?"  We were both shocked at the complete lack of
> snarkyness.   Instead of complaining, we heard repeated comments such
> as "They didn't seem to have enough people working on X, perhaps next
> year we need to offer some of our services to make sure they have
> everything they need."   or "Did you see X?  I'm glad she made it
> out.  We should invite her to our next garb making session and help
> her work out a pattern for ..."
>
> While this shouldn't come as a shock, it was.  I must wonder if
> someone spiked the water that you all were drinking.
>
> I had only one complaint.  We went to bed early, because we were
> exhausted.  The group that was out front singing, chose to get quiet
> because we went to bed.  How rude!  How were we to sleep without such
> nice background music?!?  We enjoyed the singing, loved hearing the
> tales from past events, and smiled at the laughter throughout the
> evening.  It was hard to fall asleep once it ended.  If we ever have
> the pleasure of camping near you all again, please sing away.
>
> It was the first event for my wife in quite some time.  Those of you
> in Ponte Alto's camp this weekend reminded her about what she loved
> about the SCA.  Hopefully, this means I can drag her out more often.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian de Morray
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