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We leave for Pennsic *Real Early* Saturday morning, aiming to arrive so as to not have to wait around too long to be allowed to begin setting up. We are in our traditional spot at 133 Plunder Lane.

We'll have a social area in the back of the shop similar to last year's setup where we will be hosting the Tablet Weavers' Tea on Thursday of war Week at 3pm. We may be hosting a schmooze session of folks on the Medieval Sawdust mailing list, possibly on Sunday afternoon, but that's way up in the air.

Tuesday, 8 August, is our 25th wedding anniversary. I've got a bottle of Port Ellen whisky that will get cracked then (along with whatever other bottles of whisky I take up). We'll be running diverse specials in celebration. I can't tell you specifics, in large part because we haven't sorted out what they all will be. I suspect that "25" and "silver" will play a prominent role.

Drop by and say howdy!

Moving along to September, my lovely wife instigated further celebration, to wit, a cruise. We'll be taking the Baltic Capitals cruise on Norwegian Cruise Lines.

We head over on Thursday evening, 7 September. Our itinerary is:

Day	Port	Arrive	Depart
Fri, 8 Sep	London (Dover), England	- -	4:00pm
Sat, 9 Sep	Transit of the Kiel Canal	- -	- -
Sun, 10 Sep	Warnemunde (Berlin), Germany	7:00am	9:00pm
Mon, 11 Sep	Cruise Baltic Sea	- -	- -
Tue, 12 Sep	Tallinn, Estonia	8:00am	5:00pm
Wed, 13 Sep	St. Petersburg, Russia	8:00am	overnight
Thu, 14 Sep	St. Petersburg, Russia	- -	7:00pm
Fri, 15 Sep	Helsinki, Finland	8:00am	4:30pm
Sat, 16 Sep	Stockholm, Sweden	9:45am	3:30pm
	Cruise Swedish Archipelagos	- -	- -
Sun, 17 Sep	Copenhagen, Denmark	7:00pm	overnight
Mon, 18 Sep	Copenhagen, Denmark	- -	12:00pm
Tue, 19 Sep	Cruise North Sea	- -	- -
Wed, 20 Sep	London (Dover), England	5:00am

So, if you are in one of those locations and would like to meet up with us when we are in town, drop me a line and we'll try to make it happen. Saint Petersburg is fully booked with tour excursions, in large part because otherwise we'd have to make our own visa arrangements and that seems like too much trouble for too little reward, given the tours available to us.

We were planning to have lunch at the Old Hansa in Tallinn and would welcome company. I'm hoping