A bit of advice: if you're going to eat cinnamon-red-hots ice cream and coconut lime habanero ice cream together, eat the cinnamon-red-hots ice cream first, then the coconut lime habanero ice cream. The other way 'round will make the c-r-h ice cream taste far too sweet and the cinnamon will taste funny. Two delightful flavours as long as you eat them in the right order.
Made it out there. Made it home again. Much goodness, leading to much tiredness. Have not begun to try to catch up on email and LJ-friends yet. Never did get bowing pointers, but something mysteriously good happened to my bowing while I was up there anyhow. Will find out later whether any of it stuck. Still have a lot to learn in either case.