Renaissance Faire 2009

Ye Olde Rainaissance Faire deliveres thee goods. We had a blast. Got most of what I wanted to get done over the weekend, so instead of buying that longboard I wanted, I took the kids out for a good time.

• Someone dropped their VISA Platinum Card - If I chose to commit fraud I could have gotten away with it - I enjoyed not doing it. I finally gave it to a cop. It was like having the devil in my pocket, trying to jump out. A fun situation if you're at a Renaissance Fair
• The Beef Jerky Vendor, selling long sticks of beef was pretty funny .. "Get my meat and put it in your Mouth!" he would shoult. "Thirteen inches!" - Alot of moments like that in places like these. Enjoyed it.
• Kids were kind of off the wall at first, then they calmed down and got into it. Always have to break that commercialism. My youngest acted out for a while but he really liked watching the guy do tricks with the whip, and it was good for a little boy to get a chance to shout back to the guy on stage.
• I ate a fried pickle. The fun part was, it was so cold after it rained (real scottish weather ! ) that if I took a bite of it (it was basically, pickle spears sliced like french fries ) ... I discovered (much to my kids amusement) that I could blow steam out of my mouth like a great dragon.
• If the leather fits, wear it.
• Accents that are maintained through force of will tend to make people do funny things to round out a sentence whose prosody is slightly off. I really enjoyed the rain because as a result, there were not many people and the re-enactors were very free to talk with you one to one.

My son made a wax hand (putting his hand directly into a big vat of melted wax). The lady who colored his wax, while she was helping him , had one of her coworkers pour wax on the nape of her neck. My son picked some pretty strange colors, green, pink and red but the wax mistress really made it work, and it was obvious she enjoyed her work. I tipped her. The strange, red, green with a pink band across - and green glittery hand sits on the head of his bed, and he is fast asleep. My daughter is wearing the dragon pendant to sleep. I wore the kids out today.

Just FYI I tend to hide messages in and around my blog. 'Easter Eggs'. They're not in every post. For example, the one today is that there is a finite chance I go to the Carribean soon..