We usually make a trek to our local Ren Fest once every season.  This past weekend was the last weekend, so we needed to get on that!  Our festival is one of the largest in the country and it was packed on Saturday.  The huge field was full of cars, as were all the overflow lots.  We got there at 11:30, which is a bad time.  It means we waited a long time to get through two lights and then when we finally got up to the park people weren’t following the traffic signs to form two lanes to go in.  So…I passed probably at least 50 cars to get into the lane that no one was using for no good reason.  That wasn’t really helping the congestion.  They figured it out after I got in the park before them and people quickly followed.  Sheep. 😉

As you can see from the photos below, I put the kids in their costumes from last Halloween.  If you want your kids to get a lot of attention…dress them up LOL!  I was hoping to get some great shots of them in their outfits, but that would have required cooperation.  They didn’t feel like cooperating. *sigh*

These are fairy houses that are on a path in the woods.  The houses are 1/2 the size of a children’s playhouse.  Very cute! 

What I got when I tried to get them to pose for me.  To get the full experience of this walk you need to imagine two smallish children constantly asking “Where are the animals?” and “When can we ride the animals??”  We should have gone there first and gotten it out of the way.

A boa constrictor – this was a pretty big and long one.  They each petted him.

 

Another perfect pose for mama.

This should really say, “Bad Manors” 😉

The kids rode an elephant, llama, camel, ponies, a wooden horse jousting contraption and a giant rocking horse.  We bought too much stuff, but it was stuff for the kids.  Anya got her wings, a painted leather pink butterfly mask, and a pink pouch for “stuff”.  Kai got a leather attachment for a belt to carry his sword and a wooden ax.  A good time was had by all, but we got a bit tired of carrying the kids or tell them to stop dawdling.  There were so many people that dawdling usually meant people ran into them.   We were there for about 4 hours and that was enough.