This weekend, we headed out to experience that mandatory fall activity, the Renaissance Festival. We went to the Texas version of this great tradition. Here are some photos and thoughts.
- Renaissance Festival doesn't seem like the right term. Considering that many people come to these events dressed like executioners, knights, or William Wallace, I think Medieval Festival might be a better term. While there are some Renaissance-era themes at the event, like Shakespeare shows and printing press demonstrations, a lot of what happens at the festival comes from an earlier time period, like this skeleton ventriloquist:
- Anachronisms. While some looseness of historical eras is acceptable, I'm not sure if Native Americans or this guy belong at the Ren Fest:
I suppose that Native Americans were around at the same time as your typical Ren Fest characters, they were on a different continent. I think Ren Fest is exclusively a European event. And while the Nazis were in Europe, the 20th century has no place at Ren Fest (well, except for credit cards and Miller Lite).
- Why were there so many people wearing tails at this thing?
- Buxom wenches. I suspect that one did not see so much gratuitous cleavage during the Renaissance era.
- Jousting. I guess they're not going to have real, full-on jousting at these events, but what we saw was really fake, kind of like minor-league pro wrestling. I was disappointed.
we went to one that had real jousting. no one died or anything, Im sure its very controlled. I don't know what's up with those tail either!
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