The drive to the Renaissance Faire took just the predicted one hour, so we arrived early enough to snag a parking place on center aisle right in front of main entrance, just two rows out.
That certainly made for an easy "hike" back to the car when we were leaving, tired out from all the walking we'd done.
The weather was most cooperative, though by mid afternoon we were happy to find shade. We'd both slathered on sunscreen before we went in, and despite spending almost 6 hours in the sun got no color.
Of course many of the folks in "SPF 1000" costumes
didn't need to worry about the sun...
Among the acts we attended was one of my personal favorites, Zilch's spoonerisms, which yesterday was Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Mary was a good sport about sitting through it since I know that with her hearing issues she missed much of it.
Zilch the Torysteller has been "peaching teople how to leak in a spifferent danguage," for over four decades.
Waiting for that to start we caught the finale of a trio of jugglers
who were passing flaming batons back and forth -
which does make you wonder
how their parents survived their teenage years...
Naturally we made sure to catch another of my favorites,
the Birds of Prey demonstration on the green -
and also a new one for me which featured some cute "pirate" dogs searching for treasure. By that time in the afternoon it felt good to sit down in the shade of a tent (once we found it!) to enjoy the half dozen pooches (all rescues) going through their paces. Unfortunately the stage was not raised high enough to afford us a good view of many of their tricks.
Bonkers, the newest dog in the troupe (and working his first show) was a barker.... until the trainer "commanded" him to speak, at which point he always quit. <g>
Lunch was the "mandatory" turkey legs (of course neither of us could finish ours) which Mary agreed was perfect faire fare, and shopping various vendors is always fun. (I was good, and only came home with some earrings, a book, and some adorable sewing-themed buttons.)
Even though I'd brought along my camera I ended up not taking photos - except for this one of a dragon chair (still a work in progress) that has been under construction for many months. It had a hefty price tag that reflected all the man-hours that have already gone into it, and truly was a beautiful work of art, though sadly my pic does not showcase it very well.
All-in-all it was a rather perfect day (my back did wonderfully!)
so we 'may' <g> have do it again next year!
MANY thanks to Marna for comping me the tickets!
Once home I was pretty wiped out, and 'drifted' on the couch until dinner. There were the usual issues with mask leakage last night, and so after my bathroom run didn't even bother to put it back on since I wanted to go back to sleep as quickly as possible. I must have been tired - I slept in this morning!
Alex popped over last evening to say good-bye before blasting off to a friend's near the airport for the night (his flight to Florida left at 6:30 this morning.) He wouldn't be quite as close as if he slept in an airport pod....
although I have no idea if those are even available here -
but that at least put him only 5 minute drive away rather than half an hour.
For the next several weeks he'll be living in a condo on the beach
while working Spring Break (tough gig, right?)
He won't be back until the end of the month, when he and Tom will then be off to Rich & Suzie's to go fishing.
I reminded him to send me the dirt bike pix before he left,
and here they are:
Today's plan is to quilt all three of the remaining placemats.
That would leave only the bindings,
which (in theory) should go rather quickly.
So now off to start being productive this morning -
before it turns into afternoon!
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