I haven’t been to a Renaissance Festival for many years, and this one exceeded my expectations in every way. This fair wasn’t set in a dusty field like I expected. The site was dedicated to the festival and had permanent structures painted in vivid colors in many different archaic architecture styles. The festival is set amid leafy shade trees, and it is landscaped with greenery, ivy, and flowers. The paths are covered in wood chips. There are colorful banners, flags, and an equal amount of real and tasteful fake flowers everywhere. And everyone’s costumes were really cool and very colorful.
There were a lot of shows that you could watch, and we watched two of them. We watched the Vilefication Tennis, where teams of 2 would fling insults across a row of peasants. The moderator awarded points. The insults were raunchy, and many of them consisted of yo mama jokes. We also watched a sheepdog demonstration. The sheep were released and they started eating grass as fast as they could (this was entertaining in itself). The first sheep dog demonstrated to us all that a sheep dog was meant to do in life. That dog herded sheep extremely well. There were 4 other sheep dogs that demonstrated what can go wrong with a sheep dog demonstration. We got to pet one of the dogs during the demonstration, but that was one of those things that went wrong. 
We spent most of our time browsing. The artisans and their wares were spectacular. The chain mail was very fun to look at, and I was amazed with what people came up with. The glass blowing was also really cool. We watched a glass blower make a glass fish. There were medieval costumes, swords and weapons, hair braiding, and hats as well.
Here are a few more details about the Renaissance Festival.
-
If you want a pickle, be prepared to be publicly humiliated by this guy who strides around and gestures with his tongs. Once you get your pickle, he is going to make lewd comments about “your pickle”. I don’t know if it was worth it. The pickle wasn’t anything special.
|
 |
- You can get married at the Renaissance Festival. I heard they reached their 1000th Renaissance wedding recently.
|
 |
- If you wanted a turkey drumstick, the wait (at all times of the day) was at least 20 minutes. We might have missed an important part of the Renaissance Festival, but we didn’t wait.
Tags: chain mail, renaissance festival
This entry was posted
on Sunday, September 16th, 2007 at 7:20 pm and is filed under Ramblings.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
