Family pictures!

Fleet Admiral JD · Post by **Fleet Admiral JD** » 2005-08-10 01:14pm

I didn't realize knights wore white socks to their mid-calves

Kidding

Very nice pictures, Mr. Wong. You're real fotunate to have such an excellent family.

Ligier · Post by **Ligier** » 2005-08-10 05:52pm

Nice pictures. I can attest to Medieval Times being a jolly good, er, time. Not cheap, but managable if you can wrangle a group together to go.

Incidently, as a sidenote that I'm sure everybody will be interested to know, I live three blocks away from Medieval Times in Toronto.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-08-10 07:01pm

Looks like you had a great time; me and the kids went to a petting zoo yesterday. A little more tame, but it was funny hearing Daniel cry when the ducks nearby quacked.

charben · Post by **charben** » 2005-08-10 08:58pm

Great photos. Mike, is your dog a Lhasa Ahpso or some other breed? My family had a Lhasa when I was young. They have tons of personality and are extremely cute as puppies, kind of like Tribbles with legs.

Son of the Suns · Post by **Son of the Suns** » 2005-08-10 09:08pm

Fleet Admiral JD wrote:I didn't realize knights wore white socks to their mid-calves

Kidding

Very nice pictures, Mr. Wong. You're real fotunate to have such an excellent family.

I bet you my first born that he has a fanny pack under that chain mail somewhere.

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2005-08-10 10:55pm

I'm still getting some humor from having pictures of guys in platemail neatly bookending a nice piece of field artillery. Is it just me or does it just cause a little chuckle?

*hears crickets*

damnit.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-08-13 10:46am

CmdrWilkens wrote:I'm still getting some humor from having pictures of guys in platemail neatly bookending a nice piece of field artillery. Is it just me or does it just cause a little chuckle?

*hears crickets*

damnit.

You're just weird

Actually, they fired that piece off while I was there, during the artillery demonstrations. They also let loose with some older cannons. Basically, they fired that gun as well as everything in this picture:

It was, of course, fucking loud.

Some more pics are at http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/Family/ in the "2005" section.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2005-08-13 11:11am

In that album of yours, I believe that unidentified APC was known as a 'Bren Carrier'-- driver, Bren gunner (that's the machine gun on the carrier there, in action it'd have been down on the fairing or sticking through a firing slot) with some passengers in the back. Used by the Brits in WWII and some time thereafter, I believe-- designed to provide a light armoured vehicle to support forward advances, if I'm right.

Excellent pictures, incidentally...

EDIT: More details: http://www.lancers.org.au/museum/bren.htm