North Texas Irish Festival 2008

[RowdyRed]

Nope - wasn't me.

Saturday I had on my new County Meath mini (mostly green) and Sunday in my Holyrood (brown and blue). Both days I had brown boots.
And I say "mini" even though both kilts are over 18' long.

If memory serves, you were coming in the Scottish clan area, I was going out.

[Cynthia]

Thanks, Rowdy! I wish I'd gotten a photo with you, not to mention more photos of some of the festival areas. I don't know why I was so out of it with the camera -- it's like I forgot I had it most of the time. By the way, I meant to tell you how lovely your skirt was! It was very nice

I was fortunate enough to have seen some of Ron's photos and recognized his kilt (it really is a nice kilt, love the colors). I didn't know what you looked like, but kept an eye on the SCD area because I wanted to meet you, too I wish there were an easy way to spot XMTS members in a crowd like that because it would have been nice to meet a few other folks. I also wasn't sure what everyone's plans were and didn't want to take up too much of their time since there were workshops and bands playing, and I'm sure everyone had plenty to do while they were there. Maybe next time we can come up with a "meeting place" (the SCD area/Scottish Clan area was great... very easily found and I hung around that area a lot). Aside from having the XMTS tartan (I don't, but maybe someday -- I really like it), I am not sure if there are other ways to help make ourselves more visible to each other. Normally I don't wear my hair down, but since I didn't have any tartan or anything else that could stand out from the crowd I couldn't think of anything else.

Anyway, it was wonderful to meet you both. It really was a fantastic time, even if I was a bit overwhelmed with how big the place was. So much to see! After I got home, I realized there were a few things I wanted to go back and look at closer and forgot. D'oh!

I'm definitely looking forward to the Scottish Festival!

[RowdyRed]

Well, there was some talk about having a banner, or some such sign, made to hang up whenever there was a gathering...to help identify a common meeting spot and to provoke more interest for the un-kilted. ("XMarks? What's that?")

MKMound might remember...he talked with some/one of the moderators on here to see if that was ok....

I don't recall what we planned to do about it, though...must have been on a Kilt Night when the beer was plentiful...int:

[Dirk Skene]

Good people pix. I gotta get over to meet the DFW rabble some day.