By Deborah Murray
On Tuesday evening, the second night of our recent World-Wide Web seminar series in Dallas, Erni Wade of UniForum and I treated the hardworking instructors of the class to a night on the town. After a couple of days of grueling instruction, Dave Kensiski and John Stewart experienced an evening of excitement and laughter at the Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament, a restaurant featuring both a meal and a realistic medieval tournament.
Everyone was seated around a large dirt arena where the knights fought for the diners' entertainment. The evening began with a falcon named "Odin" flying freely around the auditorium. We were seated in the "yellow" section. (Each section corresponded to one of the knights in the arena.) We soon realized we were among a fairly youthful crowd. It turned out to be a large group of high school freshmen, the honored guests of the evening.
We were seated in the middle of this group along with their chaperones ...no, not us, it was their bus drivers! When the announcer introduced the yellow knight, our hero turned out to be a Brad Pitt lookalike, and the surrounding crowd started screaming. It appeared the high school boys were envious of the knight's long hair and good looks, and the girls began to flirt incessantly with him.
Soon after, Dave and John went into a rendition of Monty Python routines and proceeded to entertain us and the surrounding crowd for the remainder of the evening. These two turned out to be not only a very talented instructional team during the day but also an entertaining duo in the evening. Lucky for us!