I have to say, part of the fun of the day was watching my household in action.
Besides that, the main focus of my day was heralding. I've done a fair amount of it, of course, but it's been occurring to me that my experience is oddly specialized: I've almost entirely done *solo* courts. I've been Jehan's Emergency Backup Herald for several years now (called upon when none of the Real Heralds were available), and I've mainly run Royal Courts in odd circumstances where I was the only good candidate. (For example, since we only had a couple dozen Easterners at the SCA 30th Year Celebration, I wound up as Royal Herald there.) So I realized that I had better participate in a couple of courts as a team member, before I step up to trying to lead such a team, so that I know what it feels like.
In practice, it went well, although it was a bit silly and complicated. I wound up wearing two tabards into Court. I heralded Baron Jehan in, and ran Carolingian Court. Then I snuck off to the side, whipped off the Carolingian tabard in favor of the royal one underneath, and took my turn doing an award in Royal Court. (