I have
always loved the Texas Renaissance Festival and enjoyed an adventurous, cold
day there the final weekend. Lords, Ladies, jousters, barbarians and turkey leg
proprietors will just have to wait another year to set up booths and camps.
My
daughter asked me to go and I gave her a big, fat “Yes!”
People
always ask if you went in costume. In my one-day’s notice, I did gather some “earthy”
robes and some jewelry I’d purchased over past festivals. But it was too cold
for costuming for us. I had a sweat shirt, rain jacket and other layers over my
festive garb. We went back to the car for a minute and Jasmine found her dad’s
overcoat was in the car, so we took turns with that. There were gloves in the
pocket. We had been sharing my fingerless gloves, one on each hand. So then we
traded off wearing one of each, so we’d have at least one warmer hand at a
time.
Jasmine’s
friend Meghan and her mother joined us and this girl showed up as a pirate in a
red dress under a black corseted overcoat and glittery eye makeup. It was
awfully fun to be with someone who would not break character because of a
little drop in temperature.
Even
when it was downright misting on our heads, we still rate the Texas Renaissance
Festival as “aces.
Traveling
with the folks
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