Being largely of Norwegian and Swedish descent, my sister and I decided to lean hard into this year's Scandinavian BreyerFest theme (especially since the pandemic denied us the opportunity to be ridiculous for the Celtic Fling theme in 2020). This largely consisted of goofy social media posts...
Sarah's apropos festing gear...
and silly shirts.
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| "Some of us will have to sit up front with the lutefisk." |
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| Those of us of a certain age will still sing the jingle. |
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| Mom's dala horse shirt is adorable. |
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| Look, I told you we're nerds. |
Sadly, my dad's "McOlson's Lutefisk Burgers - One Sold" shirt is in need of replacing, so it was only with us in spirit. We also forgot to order more lefse, damn it.
The annual BreyerFest drama kicked off before we and our nonsense arrived in Kentucky. The host hotel, the CHIN (Clarion + [formerly the] Holiday Inn North), may or may not be allowing room sales next year. The whole hotel is being renovated and things are going swimmingly, but only in a very literal, the back-half-of-the-hotel-flooded (more than once) sort of way. Heavy rain storms caused a terrent of water to flood down this hallway and out into the back lobby by the 500 and 600 room block several days in a row. The infamous carpet there was definitely getting whiffy by Saturday. Uffda. There was also melodrama over whether or not room sales signs would be allowed, construction debris taking up precious parking spaces, and other shenanigans, but I'll leave that all for Facebook.
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| (Photo yoinked from Shauna) |
We arrived late Wednesday afternoon, and the first of the daily downpours met us as we cut through downtown.
Luckily, our hotel has an overhang out front, and we were able to unpack the van pretty quickly without getting soaked. After a quick dinner, we headed over to the CHIN to see the Hagen-Renaker Tennessee Clinkees sale in The Horse You Want (BHR) sales room. Much loveliness was on display, and a bunch of our favorite china collectors happened to wander through while we were visiting. It was an excellent way to start BreyerFest!
While wandering the halls later, we stumbled upon a strange clinky...
She appeared to be embroidering with bloody thread.
And she came with a warning.
I contemplated rescuing her for the laughs, but decided it wasn't worth the risk and put her back on her perch. She had migrated to another floor the next time we saw her. I hope whoever has her now has put a circle of salt around her at the bare minimum.
We ended the evening with safe, uncursed clinky loot from Kristina L, Heather W, and Ed A. More pix forthcoming. Not bad for our first evening's raid on the CHIN!
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| My adorable HRTN Bibelot line Calendar foal |
