Fest is Best

Our love for the Maryland Renaissance Festival runs deep. We never waste an opportunity to share our values with our kids. Fortunately it seems our boys share our love for delicious and naughty food and also jousting. Who doesn’t love a joust?!

It’s like a Monty Python movie, but it’s real.

The Maryland Renaissance Festival is something I look forward to all year long. Every year the husband and I swear that “We’re definitely going to dress up next year.”

Last year: Jack screamed bloody murder and was terrified at the thought of riding a pony. This year: Cowboy.

Last year: Henry swimming in utero like a little sea monkey. This year: 6 months old, and sleepy.

Jack learned about the bees. This is him showing us the queen.

Would you like a little Cirque de Soleil with your jousting, glass blowing, Celtic bands, theatre, yummy food, elephant & pony rides, sword swallowing and general merriment? Sure thing!

We brought the double stroller just in case Jack insisted on riding but he walked, almost the whole day. He of course immediately passed out in the car as a result.

Maybe next year we’ll take the kids one weekend and another weekend we’ll go by ourselves without the kids. How decadent would that be?!

Ye Olde Faire

We made our first of two trips to the Maryland Renaissance Festival this weekend. Seriously, there aren’t words for how awesome the Faire is. We started with a Fight Club show, which always includes a beef stew for me YUM!

Jack loved the stew and the show.

Then we went to the Bee Folks and caught a show at the Globe from their second floor window.

We climbed on the pirate ship playground.

We slid on the slide.

We checked out the elephants.

Jack and Matt shared a Scotch egg- it was supposed to be for Matt, but Jack loved it! Matt also had sausage on a stick and I had a chili bread bowl.

We caught the joust and Jack enjoyed a birds eye view.

Since I go for the food I’ll tell you what else I had: mint chocolate chip ice cream in a waffle cone, fish and chips and hot cocoa. We also picked up some gourmet honey from the Bee Folks and also nabbed some herbs and teas from the herbalist.

At the end of the day Jack was pooped!

Huzzah! Part Deux

Another wonderful fall weekend and another trip to the Maryland Renaissance Festival. We met up with Susan and Carter and also Field and Kate. Apparently Susan and Kate are due 10 days apart (according to my calculations)! We went to Fight School.
We checked out the pony rides (which Carter enjoyed) and watched the Elephants (which Carter also enjoyed). We ate: Scotch Eggs, 2 bread bowl of pot roast, bread bowl of chili, sausage on a stick. We tested out the hand made hammocks, comfy and fun!

Carter got his face painted with a dragon, which Matt was supposed to be taking a picture of. Why is it that he can operate his camera with the finesse of a prima ballerina and I ask for a picture of Carter’s super cool dragon and this is what I get.

We watched some Celtic singer/dancers.

Then someone, who missed his morning nap, got fussy and we had to call it a day early. As soon as we pulled out of the ‘parking lot’ this was what happened…
Had we stayed longer we would have had: chicken on a stick, beef bbq, apple dumpling and ice cream. (Yes, we do go for the food.)

Huzzah!

Good morrow! On this fair day we rode in out chariot to the Maryland Renaissance Festival. We thought perchance the weather would hold and we would be able to make merry all day. Ok, I just can’t ren-speak for the whole blog because I’m not that good so I’m done now.Jack was crowned king of all the land. Something about a sword and a stone; I’m a little fuzzy on the details.

We went to the herbalist…

where we learned about the fantastic properties of licorice root -slight numbing property and GREAT for teething!!

We saw Shakespeare’s Scum perform; Jack is their biggest fan! With performances like “Macbeth in 30 minutes or less” we always enjoy their shows. (Puke and Snot is not performing until October this year – for those who love that show.)

It was a bit of a long day for Jack. But we had a fantastic time. We didn’t expect top be able to be there as long as we were – you never know when the need for a nap will win out over other plans. We arrived at 10:30 and left at 4:30 YAY!

Anon.