18th Century Vacationing
So I've put in my request for vacation. I'm taking the first week of July, which means that I only need to use 4 vacation days since the 4th of July is a firmwide holiday (on a Friday this year!).
Anyways, I've already got some wicked excellent vacation plans laid out and I'm stoked! They're not even going to cost me an arm and a leg! Check it!
For my 2008 summer vacation I will be reinacting the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga on the beautiful shores of Lake Champlain. Obviously, we won't be reinacting the revolutionary 'assault', since the fort was taken by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys without even firing a weapon (they snuck in through a breach in the wall and surprised 22 British soldiers with a demand for surender, to which they complied).
No, we will be reinacting the 1758 British attack on what was then a French fort (Fort Carillon). It's the 250th anniversary of the attack, so it's going to be super awesome.
Here's the cool part. My friend Jenn's boss is a civil war reinactor. Like a hardcore one who does this kind of thing regularly. He's got extra garb for me and Jenn to wear (period specific) and also a tent for us (again, period specific). That means that we're going to be spending a night in the reinactors encampment. That's pretty fuckin' heavy duty! They don't allow anything into the area that isn't chronologically correct (i.e. something that wouldn't have been there 250 years ago). They let you slide with things inside your tent (toothbrush, toothpaste, etc), but outside the tent it's all 1758 baby! Among the more obvious things, they don't allow flashlights (fire light only) and mass produced beverages (homemade jugs of rum and beer will be on hand).
I'm so psyched! I'm going to be fighting on the French/Indian side, which makes us the defenders and the victors. From what Jenn tells me, I'm going to be an Indian with Native American clothes and moccassins. Ha! Her boss also asked if I've ever used guns before, because he's got an extra musket I can use. Score!
I cannot wait for this. I hope I get to see the redcoats advancing and all that jazz. Man, that's going to be so cool. I'm really looking forward to the reinactment campsite. They don't allow spectators into the campsite, which is why it's neccessary for us to dress up and reinact the battle with everybody else.
Anyways, I've already got some wicked excellent vacation plans laid out and I'm stoked! They're not even going to cost me an arm and a leg! Check it!
For my 2008 summer vacation I will be reinacting the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga on the beautiful shores of Lake Champlain. Obviously, we won't be reinacting the revolutionary 'assault', since the fort was taken by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys without even firing a weapon (they snuck in through a breach in the wall and surprised 22 British soldiers with a demand for surender, to which they complied).
No, we will be reinacting the 1758 British attack on what was then a French fort (Fort Carillon). It's the 250th anniversary of the attack, so it's going to be super awesome.
Here's the cool part. My friend Jenn's boss is a civil war reinactor. Like a hardcore one who does this kind of thing regularly. He's got extra garb for me and Jenn to wear (period specific) and also a tent for us (again, period specific). That means that we're going to be spending a night in the reinactors encampment. That's pretty fuckin' heavy duty! They don't allow anything into the area that isn't chronologically correct (i.e. something that wouldn't have been there 250 years ago). They let you slide with things inside your tent (toothbrush, toothpaste, etc), but outside the tent it's all 1758 baby! Among the more obvious things, they don't allow flashlights (fire light only) and mass produced beverages (homemade jugs of rum and beer will be on hand).
I'm so psyched! I'm going to be fighting on the French/Indian side, which makes us the defenders and the victors. From what Jenn tells me, I'm going to be an Indian with Native American clothes and moccassins. Ha! Her boss also asked if I've ever used guns before, because he's got an extra musket I can use. Score!
I cannot wait for this. I hope I get to see the redcoats advancing and all that jazz. Man, that's going to be so cool. I'm really looking forward to the reinactment campsite. They don't allow spectators into the campsite, which is why it's neccessary for us to dress up and reinact the battle with everybody else.
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TheJoeD on
Holy crap dude, that's wicked cool! I've always wanted to participate in something like that.
Cavutto on
Yeah, I know! Her boss wants to know if I would do it with him more often (he does Revolutionary era and French/Indian War). I said 'probably not', because I'm lazy, but if this turns out to be really cool, I might have to go full-out dork and try more.
johnlanguage on
dude you should just go ahead and cash in the rest of your cool chips and become a renaissance fair court jester or something.
i stumbled across one of those like 2 years ago when i was camping with some guy friends of mine. Aside from the fact that pretty much anyone over the age of 15 that partcipates in those is pretty frickin weird, they had beer in giant mugs and those huge Viking-esque turkey legs to amuse yourself with. we toyed with the idea of getting totally wasted and taking the place over but those people take their craft seriously. they'd probably have poisoned us with period era poison and buried us in shallow graves during their new moon ritual - or worse yet - outright killed us and left us in the open in era specific prostitute outfits
i stumbled across one of those like 2 years ago when i was camping with some guy friends of mine. Aside from the fact that pretty much anyone over the age of 15 that partcipates in those is pretty frickin weird, they had beer in giant mugs and those huge Viking-esque turkey legs to amuse yourself with. we toyed with the idea of getting totally wasted and taking the place over but those people take their craft seriously. they'd probably have poisoned us with period era poison and buried us in shallow graves during their new moon ritual - or worse yet - outright killed us and left us in the open in era specific prostitute outfits
