Mom in Moonglade!

Greetings, Intrepid fans! Mom is back from her yearly winter vacation and was anxious to spend more time in Azeroth. So yesterday, after re-introducing her to the joys of fishing in Elwynn Forest, we took a short trek to the human starting area of Northshire.

Mom especially liked the fact that no mobs were going to attack her in the abbey, so we spent some time admiring the architecture and checking out all the barrels up in the bell tower. We also discovered that the bellringer has a small library up there, which I pointed out to Mom. Her response: "Books about wine, no doubt." Given that Mom has never done the quest with Brother Neals that rewards the Wine-stained Cloak, I thought that was a pretty insightful guess on her part!

Today I thought she might like to explore the druidic zone of Moonglade, since the Lunar Festival is on now and it's easy to travel there. Mom wasn't sure at first until I said the magic words: "It's safe and we don't have to fight anything!" So after walking to Stormwind City and shooting off a bunch of fireworks, both of us got our Lunar Festival Invitation and zapped ourselves to Moonglade.

We had a great time exploring the zone, including the village of Nighthaven. Because the demon-monster Omen is awake and haunts the bottom of the lake during the Lunar Festival, we elected to go swimming in the rivers that meander throughout the village. This was a great deal of fun and the rivers were deeper than I thought they'd be, as I wasn't sure if we could actually swim or if they'd only be shallow enough to wade. Fortunately in most cases there was no problem swimming around. I guess all those waterfalls from the treetops help the water table considerably.

I wanted to take her on a flight to Darnassus, but we were stopped in our tracks by the Moonglade night elf flightmaster, who informed us that we could not use the direct flight because neither of us were druids. How rude! However, it was just as well since Mom had to get offline anyway. We hearthed our way back to Goldshire Inn and bade our farewells.

I'm glad I got a chance to show Mom around Moonglade, since usually it's a druid-only zone and not usually accessible to anyone else until they reach level 50 or thereabouts. So this was a great opportunity to show Mom a little more of the game. With luck, we'll get a chance to go back before the festival ends.