Gosh, it’s Wednesday already! I never got around to posting what I ended up doing on Sunday.
During my bachelorette party on Saturday Nita asked if any of us wanted to go to the PA Renaissance Faire on Sunday. I thought I wouldn’t feel up to going (after all, I didn’t get home until after 1AM Sunday morning). But when I got out of bed around 10 Sunday morning I felt like going. I let Michael know (and asked if he wanted to go, but is bachelor party went a bit later than mine and he wanted to get beer bottling and some house cleaning done (!))
So I put on a long plaid skirt and met Nita at her house around noon.
The drive out wasn’t bad, and it was a beautiful day to go. First thing we did when we got there was to grab some food, Ren Faire food is so yummy.
Early in the day we walked past the elephant ride. I’d never ridden and elephant before, and regretted not doing it at the last Ren Faire I was at, so I just had to this time.
Waiting in line for the elephant ride
But Nita didn’t want to ride with me and the minimum was two riders. So another woman in line (whose friends didn’t want to ride with her either) ended up riding with me.
Riding the elephant! Too bad the sun was in the wrong part of the sky to get a good picture
We went to several jewelry vendors, idly shopping for shiny things for me to wear on my wedding day. I ended up with a squirrel necklace that I’m 90% sure I’ll wear at the wedding. Nita ended up buying both of us some pretty metal hair wrap things.
Boy at metal shop putting wrap in Nita’s hair
A shop I picked up some incense and lavender at
Neat looking dead people
Later in the day
Falconer’s hawk flying through hoops
Falconer’s falcon flying around the arena – this one flew closely over the audience a few times in the show, a very amazing bird
At 6:30 we attended the joust. It wasn’t a normal joust, since they’re doing the Halloween theme thing, but I think that made it even more interesting!
French Knight at joust
Fire at joust – this was pretty fun! The demon knight in the show came in with this whole fire thing. Shortly after he arrived I put away my camera and said “I don’t want to take pictures -I want to watch!”
The joust ended around 7 and we went over to St. George’s Baby Dragon Orphanage to pick up the “baby dragons” that Nita bought, I took a picture of one of them.
Baby dragon!
The Faire was wrapping up by then, the official close time is 8PM but it was dark out and all the shops started closing right after the final joust.
On the way home we stopped at the Waffle House (which I’d never been to before)
I’ll have to go again next year (and perhaps drag Michael along).