Ren fest

This Saturday we finally made it out to the Texas Renaissance Festival and had a great time.   We go every year and have a different experience every time we go.   The weather wasn't quite what we wanted -- we were hoping for a cold snap -- but it was still a great day to be outside.

We like to get there early, so we got up fairly early (it is a weekend, so we let ourselves sleep in a bit), and got on the road.  Its a good little drive to get out there, but with music and great company its all part of the fun. 

Kevin's goal was to do things he hadn't done before this visit, and we both accomplished that!

I tried out the rock climb, it looks like a castle turret so they call it 'storming the castle'.    It was my first time trying rock climbing.   I am terrible - couldn't find any handholds, but they were nice and let me swap to one of the sides used for kids - that was much better!   More handholds, but it was still hard.   When I'd gone up as far as I wanted to go and they told me to let go so they could let me down it took a lot of effort to let go of the wall..  (We have pictures, just need to make time to download them)

Kevin's first was stepping up to the 'tomato guy' and throwing tomatoes at him.  The guy insults everyone the whole time, and Kevin called it - he poked fun at his height, pretty funny...but I don't think I'd want to put myself  in his crosshairs!

The people watching is spectacular!   It was the Barbarian Invasion themed weekend, so there were lots of costumes for barbarians and really costumes of all kinds - we even so a "Where's Waldo Waldo" and a Trekkie...what either of those have to do with Renaissance times, I don't know.   We were both anachronisms...

We finished off the day with a funnel cake and then headed home.   It was sad on the drive in and out to see how many trees (and homes) were destroyed by the forest fires.     There were so many scorched trees, and there is no end in sight to the drought.

The rest of the weekend was spent doing school (K) and getting ready for Thanksgiving (me).   I'm already halfway through my 2 day work week!