Cake, Anyone?

Looking back at some of my earlier posts, I realize that the main reason I used to have more posts was that I wasn't at all afraid of randomness, posting about cooking, hiking, reading, etc. I'm still pretty random at times, but I was trying to stick with knitting for a while, but what's the point of that? If I have a big project going, it may take weeks for anything interesting to materialize when I have so many other "exciting" things happening along the way.

For instance, I had another field trip this Friday with a different group of kids from my trip a couple of weeks ago, mostly consisting of our sophomore honors students, who stage a re-enactment of the trial of Louis XVI every year up in the mountains near our town. They all dress up and have various activities before the trial. They play games that people would have played during the French Revolution although I'm not sure that the French Jacobeans had pinatas, ha, ha.

A group of students fix a French dinner. We've had some incredible meals, thanks to some very helpful parents, (We're talking Chicken Cordon Bleu and Coq au Vin )  but this year's group didn't have a reputation for being planners or hard workers, so the other teachers and I weren't anticipating anything fantastic, culinary-wise, at least. They proved us wrong!

 The food was good overall, and one of the girls brought a cake that her "caker-decorator" sister had designed especially for us. It was a cake that only teenagers would fully appreciate. They did have a couple of arguments about who would get to eat the head though.

 

The students read A Tale of Two Cities before "Rev Fest," and every year I bring my knitting along, thinking that I'll be like Madame Defarge, sitting with my insidious knitting. Usually, though, I'm way too busy, and this year was no exception. But, I  have evidence of my good intentions, both to get a little grading done and to knit.

Although it is less than an hour drive for us to get to the recreation center in the little mountain town, where we have our re-enactment, my teacher friends and I all agree that we're always exhausted by the end of the day, so no knitting last night, but this morning, I not only knit, I nearly finished my tulip sweater. Knit Picks came through for me with my swish yarn, which was exactly the same color as my original skeins, that I had bought last year or even the year before.

I crocheted an edging around one of the sleeves, but I'm thinking about a picot edging. I like how that looks, even though I always have to look up how to do it, and I mess up a lot every time I try it. It's almost time to get out a crochet hook, I guess.