Well, what year was it? 1987? 88? 89? Duke Sir Steingrim Stellari won the crown for another time.

It was quite an event… Lion’s Gate, I think. Over the Canadian border for us. …an all-night drive for me with a VW bus full of kids and mechanical problems in the middle of the night and….

…but we got to the site and set up and had a great time. Late in the afternoon of the Crown Tourney we realized that Steingrim was still in the running, so we decided to take the kids down to watch the semi-finals and then the final rounds. They were cranky-tired, but willing to lie down on a blanket and doze while waiting between bouts…. all but Sasha. He kept escaping and I was tired enough that it was a problem to catch him.

Worse still, when we weren’t looking, he got into Papa’s goblet of wine! We didn’t catch him at it until he was feeding some to Arthur, who didn’t like it. …and wow, did it wind Sash up!

He was making so much noise that folks around us started to complain and he and I ended up watching Steingrim’s victory from 1/4 mile up a neighboring hill!

He slept well that night, though, and woke up quite cheerful for the drive home.

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