Jason suprised me by getting tickets for the Renaissance Festival a couple weekends ago! I suspected that was where we would be going, but I wasn't completely sure...since Houston has soooo much to offer when it comes to festivals, shows, concerts, and places to visit. The night before, I asked him if I could guess..."Does it start with an R...is it about an hour north of here?" He said yes...and I knew. So we headed out on Sunday morning. It was a gorgeous day...not too hot...not too cold. We arrived about 11:00 after having a yummy breakfast at Sonic on the way up (ummmm...I love their strawberry fruit smoothie)! We parked in a field, and headed up to the entrance gate. I was impressed already, and we were not even past the ticket collectors.
As we arrived, the king had called his court to order, which included on-lookers and about 50-100 people dressed in costumes. Everywhere we walked, people were dressed in a wide variety of renaissance-style costumes. We saw knights in shining armor, corsetted maidens, queens, kings, Tartans, Scottish kilts, fairies, monks, and many other creatively costumed attendees. The grounds were festive! Stages were set up for renaissance era-themed drama, music, knights on horseback, and falconry programs. We had written down the times for several programs, and wandered around the various shops and exhibits in between shows.
We learned about the Gutenberg Press...and I got to serve as the print shop assistant. They even put a "costume" on me...the floppy hat and protective vest-thing. I got to keep the print I pressed, too! That was cool!
We rode on an Elephant, and got to touch his trunk, too!
We cheered for the knights in shining armour jousting on horseback!
We listened to bagpipers! That was AWESOME!!
We learned about birds from the Falconry show! That was such a fun day! I want to come back next year!
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