A brief rundown on the schedule of events:
(all times cst)

7:00
Opening Welcome

7:15 - ongoing
Open Air BBQ
the central area of socializing and where you will find gates to all events
Crafters Expo
Rhiannon and members of CoB at your service for all your crafting needs
Fishing Expo
sit by the pond and interact with others awhile and see what you fish up
City of Dead Stealables
Doom and Dojo artifacts mysteriously appear in Delucia town shops with some
really good ones spawning in the city of the dead..if you dare

7:30
Tamers Expo
Lady Windsong and members of HTB for your taming needs.
Archery Contest
See who the best shot at the festival is
30min Bag Deco Contest
With only a certain amount of items and 30 minutes what will you create?

8:00
Dungeon Race
Brought to you by Lady Wysteria and OSS details will be provided right before
the dungeon crawl
Cow Tipping
Line em up and tip em over! Teams of 4 in different heats compete for cash
prizes

8:30
Treasure Hunt
Hosted by Leopold Sumpter and taking you to various locations. Look for
other prize drops in corpses
100 Net Toss
Gather round the docks for loads of kraken killing! Word has it more than a few
Leviathons plan to crash the party

9:00
Ferret Races
Gather at Yew Race Track and see if you have the fastest ferret frollicking for
some fun
Costume Contest
Think your swanky? If you think you have the look that rivals all others in style
and fashion on LS see how you compare to others sharing that same opinion

10:00
Lets Make a Deal Game Show
What prizes will be behind bag number 1...or 2....or 3? Will it be the 500k
check? Or will you find that dead plant coming back to haunt you for not
watering it?


Map and locations of events:

((snipped and pasted here so I can make sure all involved know how much their help is appreciated))

Thank you everyone for once again making this a memorable and fun occasion of so many friends gathering.

First off...though I appreciate the kind words about me it makes me feel a little uncomfortable because there are a few key people that are the real cog in the machine of such awesome events.

You all know Sabina right? Sabina is the one who gathers all the information of who is doing what and when, what prizes we have to offer, all details and changes and then kindly reminds me a dozen or so times to open up my excel and its all right there when I ask...a dozen or so times *blushes* Then the day of such festivals when things get off to a rough start..as they often do and I cant type enough to keep my wits about me, Sabina steps in and says, "sure I'll do the archery contest or I've got this done or I'll take care of this.." Its endless. So as much as Sabina likes being the person behind the curtain...I Dorothy, hereby declare you the ring leader of Oz and reveal you to all. *smiles*

Landric. You may not know Landric as well but he is my dearest friend and all details organized before and during were done with his help from marking 20+ runebooks and preparing bag deco entries to helping with the game show. But nothing compares to during the festival when we're in voice and he alone hears me try to gather my thoughts and gets me to laugh and relax as he runs off to offer a gate or takes care of one of the many things forgotten.

Festival Tailor. Ok, I wont give you up but thank you for not only stitching up all the staff outfits but then at the very last minute snipping some tshirts for everyone else to enjoy. This time we tried something different and that was offer a variety of choices but in the same color so you could personalize your look. Note to self: friending everyone to your packies to do this makes for one very confused packhorse!

Ok bringing my heartfelt appreciation to a close I want you to know who hosted these great events for you:

The amazing decorations continued with Xenom's immense imagination and style. He had help from Queen Mum in creating the park and everything else decorative you saw.

Archery was substituted by Sabina and Branwilde, with Ladies Mab and Tia doing bag decorations, Rhiannon hosting the craft expo, Seva & Anna Wallis with Dad hosting the fishing expo, and Genie doing the stealables in town and Landric doing the city of the dead. Windsong and Genie took care of all the food at the BBQ as well as Windsong and her friends doing the popular taming expo. Athena offered help taming too and found many a reptalon chewing on her skirt hem!

Lady Wysteria and her guild hosted an awesome dungeon race while Salmar and Soth did some fun Cow Tipping. Leopold took everyone on an adventurous treasure hunt while Dennar, Genie and Nathan with help from Tia and some others tossed out what sounded like over 600 nets?? Am I right? *laughs*
Lady Merlynne brought everyone to the Yew Race track and hosted ferret/squirrel/critter races that made Seva at least very happy and I'm sure many more.

We wrapped up the evening with Kaylor hosting the creative costume contest and then Athena and Landric assisting the game show. Merlynna was the all around gal helping and gating as was Lord Sontaro offering whatever assistance was needed. Raven and TheFly had tamed pets earlier in the week as back up if needed and Dennar provided the fireworks for all to enjoy.

So there you have it and for anyone that possibly wore our staff outfits not mentioned here please know that my brain is on overdrive with appreciation and I reserve the right to add to this list later *grins*

Now how about a few pics?
(I never get the game show and I lost my pics of Windsongs taming and the park created somehow)

Fishing Expo with Seva and Anna:



Cow Tipping with Soth and Salmar:



Gathering outside:



After the Costume Contest:

I happened to wander through the festivities by accident, and have to say it looked like a good deal of fun was had. Nice going folks.

Sad I missed it, looked like a lot of fun, great job!

Nice job, keep up the good work.