Home from farthing party

I hope to do more of a con report later; for now, I want to note that last night I tried two new foods, alpaca jerky (having never had alpaca meat in any form) and hani melon (I think Jon said hani, it might have been hami). The jerky didn't taste significantly different from beef jerky; the melon was okay, not as good as the yellow watermelon I'd been eating earlier in the evening, but Jon said this wasn't a very good example of that kind of melon.