Sunday Streets!

Somehow, Doc and I must have forgotten that today was Sunday Streets. Luckily, we had headed over to Ritual to hang out this morning, and we saw the road closures. Well, I just knew that this time I finally wanted to use the roller skates that I had purchased from Schauplatz at a previous Sunday Streets… years ago.

So, after we finished at Ritual, we went home and got our skates! And spent the afternoon skating around at Sunday Streets. It was super fun. I was never very good at skating, and it has been years since I had done it, so it took a while for me to get back into it. But the whole time was still fun! I mean, if you need to learn/get comfortable with skating, there’s no better time than Sunday Streets. I also figure that’s the whole point of it.

Also, a lot of people loved my skates. They commented on how they hadn’t seen skates like them for many years. Which makes sense, because they were skates from Schauplatz, which sells vintage stuff. Too bad I couldn’t do the skates justice. One day!

Hooray!

Alamere Falls via Bear Valley Trail

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Today I hiked to Alamere Falls via Bear Valley Trail with Doc and Jon! It was a very beautiful and spectacular hike, ~15 miles in all. To be honest, our favourite part of the hike was the section of Bear Valley Trail about 4 miles in. There was a lot of steep sections, but the views were spectacular. However, on the way back, we skipped that section because it was so steep and instead took Stewert to Glen trails and it was much mellower, but less scenic.

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More Altmer Adventures

You may recall that I rolled a male Altmer Dragonborn recently just for the heck of it. Even though I still hadn’t finished sidequesting my female Dunmer Dragonborn into oblivion.

Sneaking up a mountain
My Altmer Dragonborn sneaking up a mountain

Well, he is still having his many adventures. Just recently, he thought that maybe Nelacar would be nice to him because they were both Altmer. I figured Altmer must be nice to their own kind at least. But Nelacar was always so aloof and dismissive of him, just like how he is to any other race. Frankly, he was being kind of a jerk.

So he gave up on being friends with Nelacar. Until one day the Dragonborn walked into the inn for some other business, and Nelacar immediately approached him saying, “When I saw this, I immediately thought of you! Take it as a token of my gratitude” and he pressed a Breton cookbook titled “Uncommon Taste” into the Dragonborn’s hands. Which surprised the Dragonborn because it was actually a really thoughtful gift, as well as a very kind and warm gesture.

Nelacar also decided to start eating bread immediately after his warm gesture.
Nelacar also decided to sit down and start eating bread immediately after his warm gesture.

Now, I haven’t finished the Azura’s Star quest line yet (I don’t even think I’ve started it), and I didn’t really do anything for Nelacar that would make him like me. Part of me thinks this must be some sort of bug that set his affinity for him to very high. But another part of me likes to think that Nelacar and my Altmer Dragonborn actually are best buds, and that cold, aloof dismissal is how Altmer show their love. An Altmer behaving in a way that isn’t outright hostility is a sign of affection!

And now I have to wonder, why did the cookbook make Nelacar think of the Dragonborn? Does he like cooking? Traveling? Eating exotic foods? Maybe the two of them should try to cook one of the recipes together sometime.