Ye Old Renaissance Festival

Marty had a few hours off from walking door to door on President's Day weekend, so we thought we'd make the most of the beautiful weather and take in some historical culture. And there's no better place to do that than at the Renaissance Festival! This festival comes around once a year, and has local people dressed up as knights, lords and ladies, fairies, witches, gypsies and more. They have booths selling all kinds of neat items like historical clothing, weapons, and even elf ears (prosthetics you can put on your ears to make them pointy).

There are also carnival games where you can throw or shoot almost any kind of medieval weapon - think axes, cross bows, knives, regular bow and arrows and more. You could even throw tomatoes at a jester (which Marty did - twice).

Since everyone else was dressed up, we let Brianne come as a princess. She LOVED being able to walk around with other people all dressed up. And the many characters there loved her, calling her "mi-lady" and "princess". She was in heaven!


Playing with a water balloon launcher with Daddy.


Meeting a "real" mermaid. Brianne was shy, and didn't know quite what to think of the mermaid.

It was pirate weekend the weekend we were there, so of course, we had to find a "real" pirate! Brianne was getting tired of being out in the sun, so we left shortly thereafter. But we had a great time!