Renaissance Faire

Today I took my family to the Renaissance Faire up near Ogden, Utah. It was so fun, but I don't have any pictures because I'm pretty sure that Gwen took my camera outside during the last big snow storm like a week ago and never brought it back inside. I remembered this as we were packing up to leave this morning. I remember her leaving the front door with it as I was trying to do a work out video and had asked her to leave it inside, but I'm pretty sure she didn't. I don't remember seeing it after that either, so I'm probably thinking that my birthday present this year is going to be . . . a new camera! I really wish I'd had the camera for today though.

I've never been to a real Renaissance fair before. I've been to other fairs that have had lots of similar parts to it but nothing like this. My favorite part, by far, was the full contact jousting. You should check it out. Just google full contact jousting and watch the YouTube videos or check out the Knights of Mayhem website. There's even going to be a TV series about these guys. Seriously. I would love to do this. My older sister has this not-so-secret secret that she secretly wants to be an author and is even writing a book. Well, I have some secrets of my own. If I wasn't a nurse, or if I had more guts and time, I'd want to be either A: a kick boxer, or B: on a roller derby team, or now C: a jouster. I now want to borrow my sister's horse and learn how to knock people off their horse with a huge wooden stick. It was cool. I was even a little jealous that one of the knights chose my super cute little niece Jami as his lady to fight for. Then he beat the National Champion just for her. It was awesome.

The rest of the fair was pretty much people in costumes selling homemade trinkets or turkey legs. There were a couple other interesting parts. There was a guy dressed like Jesus going around blessing people. You see, today was supposed to be the Rapture according to this bible guy in California who got a lot of press. Well, it's now after midnight and we're all still here as far as I can tell. There was a lady walking a baby goat that Emily loved. They had a Candy Cannon - a cannon that shot taffy up in the air then it rained down on us. That scared the bejiebers out of my sound sensitive Gwen. There was a band that Gwen and Emily loved and spent about 20 minutes dancing to and the band even gave them tambourines to hold. There was a perfect Jack Sparrow guy. I got to see him eat a pickle and it was just how I'd imagine the real Jack Sparrow would eat a pickle. We made fairy wings and drank mead and all got a little sunburned. Too bad it wasn't the Rapture today because it was a great day with my family and we would have gone out with a bang.