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I did two interesting things this weekend, but I don’t have enough to say about each of them to make individual posts! First, I went The Point Restaurant and Bar in Dana Point with Anela and gem. Our friend Sean invited us to watch his dad’s reggae band. It was also Sean’s dad’s birthday! He seemed pretty popular!

The band was fun, playing a variety of reggae and classic rock covers. The venue was pretty cool too. It’s a bit far to go just for drinks, but if I was in the area or there was something happening there, I’d definitely go again.

The 30th annual Toshiba Tall Ships Festival was also in Dana Point! It was a beautiful day.

gem and I watched some pirates learn about Pirate High Tea from their admiral. It was an amusing performance in which the pirates struggle to understand the delicacies of having tea.

They also had dancers!

We met an adorable rat named Izzy the Pyrat! He had a little pirate’s hat and everything.

This blacksmith was making dice. He was pretty interesting and answered many of gem’s blacksmith questions.

He even made this rose.

Aboard one of the ships was a band playing amusing songs about being pirates. They’re called The Boo Hoo Crew. Despite claiming to be a children’s band, I liked them. “Old McPirate had a ship. / E-I-E yo ho!”

Then it was snack time. gem wanted to get corn, and it was buy two items, get a third free. I bought a corn dog with the corn so I could get an Arnold Palmer for free. They didn’t have any corn dogs ready unless I was willing to accept one with a split in the breading. Because I was okay with it, they even threw in an extra corn dog for free!

We got our corn all lathered up in mayo with a variety of delicious toppings.

gem was hungry!

While watching a weapons demonstration, we met the most adorable dog. His owner didn’t mind, so we showered him with attention.

Oh, right. Here’s the weapons demonstration itself.

And then we had dinner!

Recently, gem gave me a starter kit for Amish Friendship Bread. It’s a bag filled with some goop along with instructions that basically boil down to “mash the bag most days, add some stuff on day 6, and add more and bake on day 10.” On day 10, however, you add some ingredients, mix, create four new starter kits, and then finish preparing your bread. In this way, you keep passing it forward.

She also included a slice of her bread – blueberry bread! It was delicious.

Here I had everything I needed sitting on the table while I prepared the bread.

I decided to make apple cinnamon raisin bread. You can see the raisins pretty clearly, and the light colored chunks were diced apple.

I almost forgot to take a picture before it went in the oven.

An hour later, I had what certainly looked like bread.

I was anxious to try some because it was getting late, I was very hungry, and I had more things to do that night.

Because I was going out of town the next day, I needed to deliver the starter kits to my friends even though it was almost midnight.

I brought a starter to kit and slice of my bread to Anela first. She was nice enough to not mind me disturbing her so late. Next I drove to my mom’s. They were sleeping, so I left it hanging on their door. One kit went back to gem. My last kit I dropped off the next day at lunch at Purple Yoga for Sean, an instructor there!

Nom, nom nom.

It was super tasty!

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Reggae and the Toshiba Tall Ships Festival

Apple cinnamon raisin Amish Friendship Bread