2008 Renaissance Festival

Wow, you got some great shots. I haven't been there in years and years...I remember it as being a lot of fun.

I loved it. A person very close to me participates in the renaissance festivals he also participates in the highland games, tossing telephone poles, throwing huge rocks and some saber looking thingy. I've gone to a couple and it's wasn't a dull day. I'm glad you enjoyed it too.

wow that statue is so cool it looks like lots of fun

Thanks Janet! I had never been to one before and just loved it!

Lee...thanks! I would of loved to watch some of those type games but I don't believe they had them there that day. I did see a sign near the joust that listed a Human Chess game but we never did see it going on. But then the field was HUGE that it was being held in and we could of missed it.

Hi Sonia..you slipped in while I was typing. ;) It WAS cool. My daughter and I walked up to it trying to determine if she was alive or not..lol Here is the other 'statue' that was there. They handed my grandson a scroll...This one was cool too!!

Nice photos! A friend of mine sews costumes for this type of thing.

Wonderful fun, Kim. Renaissance festivals have been a constant favorite for our family.

How cool Marianne! I think it would be a blast to dress up in costume and go to one of these.

It sure was Madame Donna! I had never been to one..but Bill was saying they have some up here in NY. So I'm going to check them out for next summer. :)

I sure wish I had known!

Matt and I have been planning to go to this! It would've been nice to meet you there.

That would of been great! It was a last minute thing. My daughter's SO came home from work saying someone had given him 3 free tickets to get in. We took off the next day.

Cool shots. I went to one of those in Wisconsin years ago.

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Great photos! That is quite a place, looks like a permanent site for the Ren Faire. There are groups on Gather where you could post these photos, SCA on Gather and Renaissance Faires are two of them that I know of. My son is in SCA and does medieval fighting in armor. I am wondering where in Michigan this took place?

Thanks Marian and Dan!

Thanks Alison I'll take a look for those places. Here's the map and url for this place:

http://michrenfest.com/

so cool!! we loved it there. we went on the one friday they were open, and there weren't many people there (good for me in my wheelchair scooter). great photos!!!!

Thank you Jessie! It would of been nice to have a few less people there the lines were unbelievable!

I've been to a couple of jousting competitions at Warwick Castle in central England - and attended loads of Highland Gatherings in Scotland - in fact, when I was a youngster, I used to take part in the musical part AND the highland dancing.

Wow Ishbel. Now those I'd love to see photos from! What fun it sounds like that all was! :)

I love your photo essay! Well done.

Thank you Trudy! :)

Very cool, I've always wanted to attend one of these. Unfortunatley the tickets for the one here are outrageous!

Great photos, I like the hottie in the second photo the best. ;-)

It was nice getting the tickets for free. I think they were like $20 a piece.

Yeah he looked good all in his garb.

great photos.Kim.

Hi Kim,
These photos are great! I've been wanting to go to the Renaissance Festival for years and just never seem to get there. By the time I know it's happening, it's over. So unfair!
I currently live in Ann Arbor so you would think I could manage to find out about it before they are closing up shop eh?
I see myself on your little road map up above ::waves to self::
Thanks for the link to the website, maybe next year I'll actually make it!

Do you ever go to the civil war re-enactments? I always have fun at those. Whats not to love about cannons blasting away and Beaver stew!? Love it!

Thanks Bhawana! :)

Thanks Kerry. Oh and you are so close too! We traveled from Ohio, about 2 1/2 hours to get there.

We used to go to the civil war reenactments all the time! I used to live right across the road from the The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. I remember the first year we lived there there came this BOOOOOM and we all ran outside thinking someones furnance or something had blown up. We had forgot that that was the weekend for the reenactment. Hahaha..it was the cannons going off. They had them pointed right at our house. It would knock stuff off the walls. They must have redirected them as the next year it wasn't quite as bad. The dogs hated it. It scared them to death...all weekend long BOOM BOOM BOOM! My fav there was always the kettle corn....warm kettle corn...Hmmm... ;)

This is the one there:

http://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/newsroom/display.asp?id=685

so very cool!

Thanks Susan!

That looked great fun. Reminded me of festivals in England.

I bet the ones in England were unbelievably great! :)

Love it! Love it! Love it! What an interesting time era. I went to a Midevil festival once, that was much like this. Along with costumes, games, etc....many had Irish Wolfhound, Elk Hounds and other large site hounds of that time accompanying them. that was way cool.

I haven't been to one in years.I went once and wanted to go back.There was so much we missed on that trip.It's just so costly though.One day I'll go again....just don't know when.

We go to the one here in Tampa every year! I love going back in time!