Domo Arigato SCA.

Busy, busy day. We ran errands all day, and ate breakfast and lunch away from home because I haven't had a chance to run to the store since we got back from our trip. The best aprt of the day, though, was the time spent at the library.

To kick off it's summer reading program, our library asked volunteers from the Society for Creative Anachronism to come demonstrate combat. There were samurais, celts, and a "simple highway robber." They fought, and answered questions, and let the kids handle their weaponry. Brogan picked out his favorites and "clapped" them on. (He's too shy to actually cheer.) Even Colson cheered the winners.

Braden's favorite was the samurai. Before the event, Braden approached the guy who was standing in front of the library looking intimidating. Braden surprised the guy by recognizing his samurai status (as opposed to thinking he was acharacter out of, say, Robin Hood.) and surprised me by his recall of all things samurai that we studied in history this year. Good to know he's paying attention.






**Disclosure-san**
This is not the actual samurai we saw, but he looked an awful lot like this.