For something fun to do on a beautiful weekend, we traveled out to the Renaissance Festival. There are so many things to see and do there, but when we arrived just in time to catch a juggling show, we ran in and found a seat. About a 1/3 of the way through the show, the very talented jugglers scanned the audience for "helpers" and walked right out to us to grab Travis. He was called up with another guy and they started out juggling pillows around them. Kinda weird...but THEN....they pulled out the knives...yes, knives. They ended up calling another girl up too and they proceeded to juggle KNIVES around my honey's face. Before they started, Brenna was a little concerned...uh..mommy...what are they doing??? I took pictures and video, but you can hear me a few times on the video going eeehhh, ooh, hehe (nervous laughter) to match the expression on Travis' face I'm sure. Everyone came out safe, but what a crazy way to kick off our visit.
We walked around all the booths, saw LOTS of people dressed up in costumes, ate some delicious food, got Brenna's face painted and enjoyed a couple of other shows. At the end of the day was the Joust to the Death show, so we wanted to make sure we got a seat and we are so glad we did. It was really cool! We were sitting in the section that would be cheering for the "bad guy" which had Brenna very conflicted. In our prep for the actual joust, we had a cheerleader of sorts telling us who to cheer for, what to say, etc. And to get the crowd pumped, they had us yelling insults at the other parts of the crowd who would be cheering for the "good guy." Brenna wasn't crazy about cheering for the bad guy, she prefered to cheer for the good guy, but understood that it was all pretend anyway, so she could play along. At one point, we were instructed to yell, "Hey you! You suck!" and Brenna specifically said to me, "I'm not gonna say that. I want Santa to still bring me presents." It made me giggle, but also proud that she wasn't giving in to the pressure to go against what she knows is right. Such an angel :) At the end (you know...the death part) she was nervous so I reminded her that it was pretend and then she really got into the cheering. It was a very exciting show! We're so glad we went!
Afterward, we got to chat a little with the guy we were rooting for, you know, the bad one. He was really friendly and told us all kinds of things about the show! His armor suit weighs close to 75 pounds and they all travel around the country for various festivals. This is their full time job! Pretty amazing!
