Nothing beats a Sunday full of pirates

I'm still exhausted from the Long Island Pirate Festival, hosted by Ye Pyrate Brotherhood. Six of the Crimson Pirates were able to head out to the Long Island Maritime Museum and I, for one, had a blast. (My sweetie ladyjoust was teaching yesterday morning, so she missed the festival, and I missed her.) We saw picoland and fjordhopper, which is always a double pleasure.

This was the "first annual," which I know is a grammatical faux pas, but I do hope the event takes off. For a first year event, they did a great job. They had a few terrific bands (particularly The Brigands, who musically plundered the place and Pirates for Sail who are not only a hell of a lot of fun, but actually have a bigger crew than the Crimson Pirates.), the food was delicious and cheap (two of my favorite things!) and the kids who came out were ready to play. I got to try out the "What would you do if your ship was captured by zombies?" game and the little scoundrels loved it.

We did three sets, all a lot of fun. Then around 3:00 the skies opened, soaking pirates, guests and instruments. So we packed everything up and loaded the cars. Technically, we were done for the day. But Dan, Robin, Ann and I hadn't really eaten yet, so we came back in to grab a bite and a beer. When we got to the main picnic tent, we found that the Brigands, Pirates for Sail and, I believe, Bawdy Buccaneers, were gathered under the tent doing a "shanty-jam." SCHWWEET. They quickly called us over, and we got to perform together for another hour or so. Perfect ending to the day. It made the 5 hour round-trip completely worth it.