The past few years, it's been a tradition for my sisters and I to go to the Renaissance Faire together. So, of course, our little sister came down from Rocky River and spent the weekend with us. We tried to get up early enough to get to the Faire at 11:30, but that didn't happen. When we woke up, we drove over to ZenCha to have brunch. Lea hadn't been there yet but, since my older sister and I are always raving about it (we love tea), she really wanted to go. We all got bubble teas and shared chai tea cookies and an order of this delicious masala pancakes with carmelized bananas and mangos (at Lea's request).
After our little trip to ZenCha, we headed over to the South Oval for the Renaissance Faire. We wandered in through the stalls til we got to the pub-looking performance set where two guys were singing. We stood and watched for a little while before they started the next song, which the audience was supposed to participate in. We were put on the "Heavy away, haul away!" side. Whenever they pointed at us during the song we were supposed to respond with "Heavy away, haul away!" and make it sound at least moderately sing-songy. The other side had the part "And we're bound for south Australia" - which was of course a wee bit trickier, as it actually required them to sing, rather than shout. Because of that our side was quite a bit louder. At the end of the song, everyone sang both parts. It was pretty fun really.
After that, we marched over to a particularly interesting looking stand selling jewelry and bags. The second tradition we have is that, every year we each buy something. Last year we bought glasswork necklaces, but this year our purchases didn't match quite so well. Erin and I both bought siler rings and Lea chose a green beaded bracelet. *Side-note: Lea loves bracelets. Sometimes she wears around 30 at a time.
While we were shopping, it started raining. Hard. The vendor was running about battening down the hatches so his inventory wouldn't get destroyed. By the time we had made our purchases, though, the rain had pretty much stopped. We walked around a bit longer, listening to a dulcimer and pondering some of the outfits people were wearing that, being relatively well-versed in history, we recognized as not being from the renaissance period at all.
Overall, the Renaissance Faire was about the same as every other year: enjoyable, but not absolutely thrilling. But, nonetheless, we will be returning next year!
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The Renaissance Fair was a fun experience for me. I went to last year's RenFest with my sister and this year was much more extensive and entertaining. The shows were funny and the location, on the south oval, made it an easy way to meet my friends from all across campus. I love history and the Renaissance fair was a great way to see it come to life.
ReplyDeleteThe best part of the Renaissance Fair was listening to the Drunk Pirates performance with Esther Benatar. I think she agrees that going to see that performance together was the weirdest thing we will ever do together, but it was worth it to learn some drinking songs for when we're old enough to drink together. Also, finding nice replica zanpakutos that were WAY out of my price range but still fun to look at. (And yeah, zanpakutos are an anime thing, and in no way related to the renaissance. But I've found Renaissance-nerdiness and anime-nerdiness are pretty closely related. . .)
ReplyDeleteThe Renaissance Fair was tons of fun as always. I like to go to get to experience an organization that I'm not apart of to help diversity my OSU experience. It's great to see how much work goes into making the fair possible. Everyone in costumes looked wonderful and acting the part of actual people from the Renaissance seems like tons of fun!
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