The Renaissance Faire
pamelamyers | October 7, 2018
Mark and I took Sam to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire and as we hoped, she loved it! Many moons ago, before Mark and I were a couple, we went to the Ren Faire and had a great time. I still tell him that it was there, while watching the glass blower, that I realized I loved him. So…It is a very special place.
We urged Sam to dress in medieval garb, and since she still had her Merida costume, she wore it. It was a bit short now (wow, has she grown!) but it worked.
Sam really loved everything from seeing all the people in their costumes, to listening to people speak differently, to the music.
She is very into Harry Potter right now, so anything to do with dragons or magic was right up her alley. Oh, and notice the fairy wings? Yup, those are new. She couldn’t wait to put them on.
We wound up buying her a little dragon of her very own.
Surprise, surprise, there was not much there that Sam would eat, but we did find some treats that we all enjoyed. I had chocolate dipped cheesecake, Mark had chocolate dipped strawberries and Sam had chocolate dipped marshmallows!
She was starting to get a bit grumpy and annoying because she was hungry, so I was glad that we found something she’d like, especially something full of sugar for energy!
We stopped for a picture with a unicorn. Sam kept saying it wasn’t real and we kept insisting it was. Well, for all her insistence that it was actually just a pony, when the unicorn dust (glitter) that was put on her hand wore off she was literally in tears.
When we finally stopped for a glass blowing demo, Sam was entranced. We wound up coming home with a few balls, and Sam talked us into a ghost and a snowman.
Sam and I tried the maze, which was way harder than I thought it would be! We got turned around so many times, but finally made it out!
One of our favorite demonstrations was the falconer. He brought the coolest birds, but in Sam’s view, the very coolest was this owl who actually made an appearance in the Harry Potter movies! Sam took this picture of him, and then only a few days later, we spotted him in the movie!
One of our last stops of the day and we put Sam in the stocks for her grumpy behavior! We thought about leaving her there, but then decided she was too cute to abandon. 🙂 Sam has already asked us if we can go back next year and we probably will. Ok, not probably, we totally will. Maybe we’ll even get lucky and be able to go on wizard weekend!
