King Richard’s Faire Fun!
Had a great time at the faire today! it was pretty cool, the whole thing was mostly in a forest. They had all these colorful small house like buildings they were selling goods out of and food.. and apparently these vendors actually slept in the top part of these small cottage/shops during the ren-faire.
They had l of shows but we sort of wandered just waiting for the ones we were mostly interested in. There was the Big Cats show and the jousting. The food was pretty good too! I made sure to take lots of pictures. I was finally glad to go, because since moving to the US from Canada I was told King Richards Faire was the best. Each year we kept saying we’d go, and well it has to be six years at least and finally we went! I made my husband Tom and our friend promise to take me this year.
Tom and me outside the festival, on the way home..eating ice cream!
Avery and me sitting at the jousting show and eating the “kings nuts” they were delicious! (they were roasted almonds with sugar and cinnamon)
Tom and I looking at some of the Renaissance inspired clothes. They were expensive otherwise I would have bought this top! would have been a saucy wench if I wasn’t wearing my shirt under it!
Tom and Avery dressed as dashing ren-men!
Tiger and cub
This is Hercules, he is a liger, a mix between a tiger and a a lion, which makes it a HUGE cat. And we were told that 2009 this cat was official the biggest cat in the world recognized by Guinness book of world records
Cubs playing
The King of the Fair with his jester and someone else. They were overseeing the jousting tournament.
Some people showing off old war horses, showing their elegant skills on the battle field.
Jousters! They had four knights they introduced. Naturally we all decided we like the green knight best, cuz he was the evil bad ass one, and we were fortunate enough to be on sir knight Jame’s side of the arena, we were his crowd! Tom, Avery and I had an awesome time working up our side of the crowd. We cheered our knight and got people booing the others XD
September 19 2009 05:05 pm | Daily Blog