So we ended up going to the Renaissance Festival on Labor Day - hoping that the forecast of rain would keep the hordes of people away. We didn't gamble very well and there were still tons of people there and they were all smoking - which lead to Owen and Mommy being out of commission for a few days because of our asthma - you just couldn't escape the smoke. We went with Owen's best friend's family and the boys had a blast together.
Owen was not too interested in watching the shows - this was supposed to be a comedy act for kids but...
jumping from bench to bench was more interesting.
Somewhere, Owen got it into his head that he wanted to have his face painted - he has been asking us for WEEKS and thinks that we just need to go the the face painting store and get it done. So we promised him that when we went to RennFest, he could get his face painted. He choose to have a dragon painted on his cheek. He did pretty good at holding still for the painter.
Papa and Dean watching anxiously.
Check out the swagger. He LOVED it and showed it off all day and was lucky to have it for two days because he didn't go to school the next day - thanks smokers for that.
Close-up shot.
We watched some jousting event - we ended up sitting on the Scotland side, but the boy didn't care. The rode horses back and forth and did some cool stuff with their swords. At least it kept his attention, unlike the other shows.
He did some bowling too.
They have a kids play group that is a pirate ship of awesome!! The boy loved playing on this - the ramp was pretty steep, but holding on to the ropes helped.
His favorite was the slide, he did this a million times.
We ended up buying him a dagger and a shield - needless to say it was a HUGE hit.
His shield has a dragon on it.
Since they both had daggers and swords, some battle ensued. Luckily, they were way more interested in hitting their daggers together then hitting each other.
Papa showing off his skills.
For some reason Owen decided to knight Mommy, so now she is "Sir Mommy".
Shortly after this a torrential rain started - thanks tropical storm Lee - so we made a run for the car and headed home. By that evening, Beki knew that both her and the boy would not be going to school the next day - they were both coughing pretty hard and had to take may doses of their asthma medication - they were both at home for two days trying to recover and both went back on Thursday. It was a lot of fun and we will be going again because we bought two day passes, but hopefully we can really avoid the smokers this time *crossing fingers*.
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