a weekend of much cake

Most of Saturday was taken up with a surprise birthday party for our aunt Wendy. There was much cake. Then on Sunday, there were lots of exciting things going on: most importantly for us, Riordon was baptised and took her first communion. Floatyfish and Onib came up and stood sponsor, and all her four parents were with her, which is a wonderful thing. And I was rather wrong about this church not celebrating Michaelmas: they had merely transferred it to the nearest Sunday, and there were special icons and banners and golden chasubles and goodness knows what else.
Also, a bunch of churches in this part of the diocese are putting on a renfair, and some of the organisers came along in princess dresses carrying the stuffed head of a pig and played the Boar's Head Carol on the organ (I swear I am not making this up). Afterwards one of them accosted me and told me I should come along and be a shepherd. Good grief.
After all that, we went to Chuck E. Cheese because it's Rio's and Plexq's birthday coming up, and I fell asleep in the middle of the place with all the video games blaring. Then Amy and John and Fin and I all went home and ate pound cake (which is like madeira cake) and talked about politics.