Went to the Hampton Blackbeard Festival at the weekend with ~rocksolidfrog. It was sooooo great. But really, I'm surprised everyone didn't kill me, going on as I was about how awesome it would be. I'll just say that little kids dressed up as pirates is probably the greatest thing I've ever seen.

case and point:


On Saturday, despite raining profusely, there was a good showing of folks, the vendors had all kinds of pirate memorabillia, both authentic and the tacky. On Sunday I went up alone to take pictures; favorites were the parading of Blackbeard's "head" (paper mache, and 4x the size of a normal human head, nonetheless) and the "capture" of the pirates.

<3
much luff