{"id":1057,"date":"2006-10-18T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T16:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2006-10-18T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T16:10:19","slug":"renaissance-faire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/renaissance-faire\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaissance Faire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gosh, it’s Wednesday already! I never got around to posting what I ended up doing on Sunday.<\/p>\n

During my bachelorette party on Saturday Nita asked if any of us wanted to go to the PA Renaissance Faire<\/a> 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 (!))<\/p>\n

So I put on a long plaid skirt and met Nita at her house around noon.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/i> this time.<\/p>\n

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\nWaiting in line for the elephant ride<\/center><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\nRiding the elephant! Too bad the sun was in the wrong part of the sky to get a good picture<\/center><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\nBoy at metal shop putting wrap in Nita’s hair<\/center><\/p>\n

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\nA shop I picked up some incense and lavender at<\/center><\/p>\n

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\nNeat looking dead people<\/center><\/p>\n

Later in the day called to let us know he was on his way down. We had hoped he’d get there in time for the falconer, but he just missed it. We didn’t though! It’s always fun to watch falconers (especially now that I’m less afraid of birds), and this one was no exception.<\/p>\n

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\nFalconer’s hawk flying through hoops<\/center><\/p>\n

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\nFalconer’s falcon flying around the arena – this one flew closely over the audience a few times in the show, a very amazing bird<\/center><\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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\nFrench Knight at joust<\/center><\/p>\n

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\nFire 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!”<\/center><\/p>\n

The joust ended around 7 and we went over to St. George’s Baby Dragon Orphanage<\/a> to pick up the “baby dragons” that Nita bought, I took a picture of one of them.<\/p>\n

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\nBaby dragon!<\/center><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\nOn the way home we stopped at the Waffle House (which I’d never been to before)<\/center><\/p>\n

I’ll have to go again next year (and perhaps drag Michael along).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}