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So...the Renaissance Festival...
Man, some people get really into it don't they?? Wow. I have to say it didn't quite live up to my memory of it, but it had been years since I had been there.
I can't decide where the people watching is better - there or the State Fair? :-)
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Re: So...the Renaissance Festival...
sooooo true!
I took DH the weekend before last and he was less than thrilled and more than confused with it all! I hadn't been for at least 12 years and had gone several times a a young child, so I had all these great memories . . . and now as an adult, a lot of it seemed beyond silly, DH just kept saying "This isn't authentic . . . I doubt they had/wore THAT during the renaissance!" And of course, he found the accents hilarious!
He did enjoy some of the stage shows though (the raptor dude was especially interesting) and I enjoyed walking around and reliving childhood memories, but all in all, it really wasn't all I had hoped it would be and the "cool handmade crafts" that I remembered were really not all that. A few things here and there were neat and several things brought back great memories (don't they ever update styles?!), but mostly was all just "meh".
I think that unless you have kids or are in the market for the kinds of wares they sell there (negative in both categories for me) it can be skipped.
I did enjoy watching the glass blowing demo until a smelly stoner sat down by us and started heckling the glass blower. Dude, just let the guy make his dragon goblet in peace!!
DH and I went the first year we were dating and it was interesting. Neither of us had been there before and we were both like WTF is this.I still don't understand if all the people dressed up are visitors or employees.
Fast forward 4 years and our neighbors belong to an organization that recreates this era. Every few months, a bunch of their friends get together and hold jousting matches in their backyard. The men wear armor and the women set up a big canvas tent and serve the men food and drinks. It's something to see.
Tired after a long morning of hiking and swimming.
Yeah, the glass blowing was probably my favorite part too. I can't believe someone would be so childish as to heckle! Did the glass-blower guy/gal say anything back to him? Not really smart to piss off someone weilding a long metal rod topped off with liquid glass! Idiot.
Both.
The glass blower played along at first but then just started ignoring the guy when he got really obnoxious. The heckler was barefoot wearing a Grateful Dead poncho and had a greasy ponytail and CLEARLY was on some sort of substance. He claimed he could make a goblet just as well. Hah, I'd love to see him try.
We have a friend in the UK who does this - - it is really odd. Apparently there is a whole big community of people who do reenactments - sort of like Civil War reenactments here, but they do renaissance/medieval stuff. They spend entire weekends camping out and living like they did 500+ years ago - - hundreds of people participate. It is really very . . . ummm, authentic?. They even have weddings and such in period dress . I don't know if it open to the public or if it is just for the people in costume to live in their own little pretend world . . .
When DH and I were at the RenFest, we kept saying "I wonder what Jo would think of all this?"
We're kind of going out.
I went for the first time this year, and I had a huge laugh at this:
My girlfriends and I were walking past a gentleman working at a stand, and as I walked by (34 weeks pregnant) he looked at my belly then back at me and said: "I know what you've been up to!!" My friends and I all giggled and I am sure I turned a million shades of red, but I played along, winked and said "You bet!"
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