good weekend
Jun. 13th, 2011 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aryanhwyYesterday afternoon I hosted a scriptorium, attended by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
racaire1, Livia, and Evelien. (Joel went out to the military history musuem, and Jesse, who'd been planning to come, ended up having a meeting instead so he missed most of it). It was very successful! People were over for about 6 hours total, we had two tables set up, and we completed 8 scrolls, 5 from scratch, 4 of which are for coronation this weekend. Whoo! I'm very pleased that I'll have a big package to mail to Eleanora tomorrow (today is a holiday so the post office is, I'm assuming, closed).
Saturday Joel, Jesse, and I went to the Kunsthistorisches Museum, which is immense and I don't think we could've gotten through it all even if we'd arrived right when they opened and stayed all day. As it was, we made it through the Greek and Roman section, and then we got split up and Joel and I went through the special exhibit on German portraiture in the 16th C (Dürer, Holbein, & Cranach), though we discovered afterwards that we missed a room, and then went to the Munzkabinetten upstairs (one of the three was closed for the preparation of a new exhibit), and spent about an hour looking at coins, and also at this fascinating collection of over 1000 miniature portraits of popes, saints, church figures, and a who's who of 16th C European and Asian nobility. I'd love to go back and spend all day just looking at the portraits.
We were there until closing and then Joel and I waited out front of the museum for Jesse but he never showed up, so just the two of us went to have supper at the fladenbrot place I had lunch at on Monday withracaire1. The place also does their own beer, and Joel said it was really good. Afterwards we were still a bit hungry and we kept seeing people with icecream cones, and so we walked a bit and found where they were coming from. I got currant icecream and he poppyseed, and both were great.
racaire1, Livia, and Evelien. (Joel went out to the military history musuem, and Jesse, who'd been planning to come, ended up having a meeting instead so he missed most of it). It was very successful! People were over for about 6 hours total, we had two tables set up, and we completed 8 scrolls, 5 from scratch, 4 of which are for coronation this weekend. Whoo! I'm very pleased that I'll have a big package to mail to Eleanora tomorrow (today is a holiday so the post office is, I'm assuming, closed).Saturday Joel, Jesse, and I went to the Kunsthistorisches Museum, which is immense and I don't think we could've gotten through it all even if we'd arrived right when they opened and stayed all day. As it was, we made it through the Greek and Roman section, and then we got split up and Joel and I went through the special exhibit on German portraiture in the 16th C (Dürer, Holbein, & Cranach), though we discovered afterwards that we missed a room, and then went to the Munzkabinetten upstairs (one of the three was closed for the preparation of a new exhibit), and spent about an hour looking at coins, and also at this fascinating collection of over 1000 miniature portraits of popes, saints, church figures, and a who's who of 16th C European and Asian nobility. I'd love to go back and spend all day just looking at the portraits.
We were there until closing and then Joel and I waited out front of the museum for Jesse but he never showed up, so just the two of us went to have supper at the fladenbrot place I had lunch at on Monday with
racaire1. The place also does their own beer, and Joel said it was really good. Afterwards we were still a bit hungry and we kept seeing people with icecream cones, and so we walked a bit and found where they were coming from. I got currant icecream and he poppyseed, and both were great.
