Renaissance Fair - NY 2009

I think this one deserves a post and a few comments. I took my son to see the last day of this magnificent action in the town with a seemingly unlikely name "Tuxedo" (unless that's where the tuxes came from, which I'm going to look into the moment I finish writing this) - Renaissance Faire. "Welcome to Shire, milady! Welcome to Shire, milord!" was how they greeted us with a very cool accent. Energy, costumes, treats, artists, full sun, camera with all the lenses I had to take with me (ended up using only one of them, but that's always been my problem - I don't want to miss something just because I didn't have the right equipment with me *lol*), my lovely little son's company (who wore a cowboy hat by the way - totally unfitting, but nevertheless looking very cute!)... should I say any more than that?

Photos are below, some with comments, some without :)

Not that I enjoy people fighting, but photographing these actors was certainly fun:







Then there were bridges where to cross it you had to hug a person, or kiss a person. This though I caught on one of the streets. She ran to him raising clouds of dust :)



Mmm...



The loudest girl on the fair! She can do lots of things too:



A beautiful admirer of my camera :)



The loudest girl's partner - the smile never left her face:



She was complaining about her shoes a little:



I think this guy was scaring young and single ladies with whatever he was pretending to hold as a baby in that thing:



Rawrrrr - I could hold his stare *lol*



He actually lost in that battle, but all my photos are dusty so I only have this one:



There's lots more, I'll post them somewhere else and share a link here. My particular interest was raised by the beer mugs everyone was carrying on their belts. So, look out for that one soon!

Have a magical day my friends~