On Saturday we made our annual trek out to the Maryland Renaissance Festival. I love the Ren Fest, and I look forward to visiting every year. I'm finally starting to figure out the layout of the one here, to the point where I only needed a map a few times.
This year we made an effort to look at the shows ahead of time, so that we'd have some sort of game plan. It's always disappointing to hear about a cool show, only to realize that you've just missed it. But thanks to our preparation this year we basically did nothing but watch shows.
We started with the aerial silk performance, a short but really impressive show. Then we made our way over to the Wheel of Death, which had been recommended by the woman who braided my hair. It was amazing. The man was a fantastic performer, and he put on a really funny show. After that we watched the joust, and caught the tail end of a musical act I'd wanted to see while we topped off our drinks at the bar they were performing at. Then it was on to the Shakespeare's Skrum performance of Hamlet.
The shows filled up the day, though we did stop into a few shops here and there. I got a cute purple purse, and I had time to get my hair braided right at the beginning. But we missed the game shop this year (probably in our bank accounts' best interests). I'm glad we managed to cobble together such an excellent schedule of shows, though. There was much laughter and awe at death-defying stunts. And now there are even more shows I want to catch next year.
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