This past Saturday (April 28), J & I went to a Fiber History Social day at a park near Jacksonville. There ended up being about 15 ladies there. We had knitting, spinning, crocheting, sew (on machine and by hand), tatting, weaving and combing wool for spinning. Even though it was a fairly warm day, we were set up on the front porch of the park's education building and there was a really nice breeze. Most of the ladies there are also involved in Civil War re-enactments - which I think is completely cool! Anyway, at the end of the day another lady came up with a couple of really great patterns for Civil War era dresses....She told us that JoAnn's had their Simplicity patterns on sale for $1.99 (yes, I did end up at JoAnn's)!!!! J & I left the part about 2:30ish to take in a couple of LYS. Knitwitz was the first we went to. There I bought light pink mohairish yarn for a gift I am making, a beautiful Fiber Trends shawl pattern, green lace weight yarn to make the shawl with, some yummy roving (lime green and a kelly green) and circular needles. J ended up with some really beautiful roving and a couple of SP gifts. We then made our way over to A Stitch in Time. Here to took advantage of some reduced price back issue Interweave Knits magazines. J picked up a couple of skeins for the Crayon Box jacket she is working on. We started home....

After a little while, we stopped to get a drink...and got back on I4. About half an hour later, we come on a sign that says Daytona Beach...It was at that point we realized, we had gotten back on I4 going the wrong direction!!!! So, we got ourselves turned back around and headed west. We had dinner at Don Pablos and decided to go to JoAnn's. We arrived at JoAnn's at 8:45 (closing time is 9). We quickly made our way to the patterns and started looking at the Simplicity books. I bought 5 patterns and J bought 4. We finally made it back to my house around 10! Since we had left my house around 6:30AM, it was a VERY long day!

Sunday morning, J, DH & I had breakfast in Mount Dora and then headed to Target. J was picking up some more SP stuff and I was just shopping. I found this really great, red bag on the clearance rack for $9.96...It is big enough to be a knitting bag and a purse, so that is what I am using it for.

This Saturday, May 5, is the Knit and Spin Because We Can event in Oviedo. I am looking forward to that. It is always nice to spend time with people who can understand my passion for all things fiber! :-)

On a non-knitting/fiber front, tomorrow (May 4) is the 5th anniversary of mine & DHs wedding. Ahhhh...Just thinking back, this time 5 years ago, I was in a laundromat because my mom's dryer had bit the big one the night before and I had to have dry clothes for my honeymoon!!! Also, on this day 5 years ago, DH's oldest brother's wife broke her heel in 10 (yes, 10) places as she was coming down the stairs of her house to leave to go to the airport to come to our wedding - needless to say, they did not make it to Florida! And, another event that took place that day happened to DH's parents...as they were landing in Atlanta, their pilot had to abort the landing because there was a plane (wasn't supposed to be there!) on the runway he was trying to land on....DH's parents said they were never so frightened in all of their life... Anyway, all turned out well (okay, sister-in-laws foot took a long time to heal, but she is walking like it never happened now)...