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Renaissance Festival
Mar. 16th, 2013 05:52 pmI went to my first Renaissance festival last weekend. My boyfriend really wanted to go, and I'd never been to one before and wanted to as well, so he took the Saturday off before his birthday and we went with his mom and stepdad. Mike had been to one before, but like I said I hadn't, so I wasn't exactly sure what to expect. I kind of wanted to dress up. When we had dressed up a couple of years ago for Halloween, one of my finalists for a costume was a cute Renaissance dress. For some reason I thought a lot of people would be dressed up, but not that many. I was definitely wrong, about 80% of the people were in costume. The theme that weekend was a pirate theme. They were having pirate costume contests. They were also having a pet fest, where they had pet costume contests, people were there to talk about pet safety tips, and shelters had dogs there for adoption. I was kind of in pet heaven, because there were soooo many adorable dogs around. If we weren't already living with three dogs, I would not have been able to resist taking one of the dogs home.
One thing I wasn't really expecting was so much bawdy humor. One of the first things we stopped to see was the comedy act that had lots of innuendo and even made a Whitney Houston joke, that I kind of didn't appreciate. There were lots of other comedy acts like that. Some were funnier than others. There was one with some guy who had a young assistant, who at first Mike and I could swear was a girl, but turned out to be a boy. They kept making sex jokes, like the kid actually made some joke talking to a woman in the audience that she should pick him instead of the main guy because he was actually versed in the ways of 69. Something like that. The day was kind of filled with jokes like that. There were lots of games, one was this fruit tossing game to try and hit the target, a guy with his face sticking out. The female "assistant" or whatever she would be called would try to entice people to play and she kept trying to get Mike to do it, but he's not big on games or rides at these things, so he passed but I really wanted to do it. Mike and the other kind of didn't have too much faith in my abilities to even get the tomatoes halfway across. I ended up surprising them, and myself, by being able to toss them pretty far. As you tossed them, the guy and the girl would do a lot of trash talking. I'm not great at handling teasing, but I was having a lot of fun, so it didn't really bother me. When I was almost done, the girl was like you're putting woman kind back like that girl who tried out for the football team. With the guy who played after I did, I think after he was done he touched his girlfriend or something and the target guy yelled at him "I don't think your girlfriend is used to you getting her that sticky."
( More Fun Times... )
Here are some pics:
( Pic-a-palooza )
Stacey
One thing I wasn't really expecting was so much bawdy humor. One of the first things we stopped to see was the comedy act that had lots of innuendo and even made a Whitney Houston joke, that I kind of didn't appreciate. There were lots of other comedy acts like that. Some were funnier than others. There was one with some guy who had a young assistant, who at first Mike and I could swear was a girl, but turned out to be a boy. They kept making sex jokes, like the kid actually made some joke talking to a woman in the audience that she should pick him instead of the main guy because he was actually versed in the ways of 69. Something like that. The day was kind of filled with jokes like that. There were lots of games, one was this fruit tossing game to try and hit the target, a guy with his face sticking out. The female "assistant" or whatever she would be called would try to entice people to play and she kept trying to get Mike to do it, but he's not big on games or rides at these things, so he passed but I really wanted to do it. Mike and the other kind of didn't have too much faith in my abilities to even get the tomatoes halfway across. I ended up surprising them, and myself, by being able to toss them pretty far. As you tossed them, the guy and the girl would do a lot of trash talking. I'm not great at handling teasing, but I was having a lot of fun, so it didn't really bother me. When I was almost done, the girl was like you're putting woman kind back like that girl who tried out for the football team. With the guy who played after I did, I think after he was done he touched his girlfriend or something and the target guy yelled at him "I don't think your girlfriend is used to you getting her that sticky."
( More Fun Times... )
Here are some pics:
( Pic-a-palooza )
Stacey
