Top 10 Reasons to Visit a Renaissance Festival
10. It’s hard to fit the word “Huzzah” into everyday conversation.
9. You’ve never really liked to use utensils.
8. Talented artisans.
7. Musicians and magicians.
6. Insults and vulgarity are part of the fun.
5. A good jousting match is hard to find in suburbia.
4. Camelot is your favorite movie.
3. It’s been a long time since you’ve eaten an entire turkey leg.
2. You still like to play dress-up, and the Renaissance Festival has the only castle for miles around.
1. Where else can an entire audience be entertained by characters with names like “Puke and Snot”? (RIP Snot.)
If this sounds like your cup of ale, these are some upcoming Renaissance Festivals:
- New York Renaissance Faire, August 1-September 20.
- Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire, August 8-October 25.
- Minnesota Renaissance Festival, August 22-October 4.
- Michigan Renaissance Festival, August 22-October 4.
- Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival, August 29-October 4.
- Maryland Renaissance Festival, August 29-October 25.
- Kansas City Renaissance Festival, September 5-October 18.
- Ohio Renaissance Festival, September 5-October 25.
- Carolina Renaissance Festival, October 10-November 22.
- Texas Renaissance Festival, October 10-November 29.
- Louisiana Renaissance Festival, November 7-December 13.
Linda (minnemom) writes about family travel at Travels with Children.
Although her trip to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival with kids didn’t go so well,
she and her husband went on one of their first dates there together. Isn’t that sweet?
Photo Credits (in order of appearance): midiman; chrisbb@prodigy.net; Rory Finneren; puroticorico; trazomfreak; Beau B; AMagill; zepfanman.com; tribbles1971; chefranden; greyloch; all on Flickr.
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Oooo – don’t forget the King Richard’s Faire in Carver, MA – near Boston it is a favorite spot for New Englanders from Labor Day almost through to Hallow’s Eve!
http://www.kingrichardsfaire.net/
Great post!
The Minnesota Renaissance Festival is our very favorite. We dress for it (see my post at Have Kid Will Travel here: http://blog.havekidwilltravel.com/2007/09/minnesota-renaissance-festival-shakopee.html. We’re even dressed up.
One thing, only half of Puke & Snot performs now. Puke died last year.
We have one but we have to wait till next Spring. I can’t wait!
My two biggest reasons to visit the Colorado Ren Fest are.
Twig the Fairy and Sonia the Bellydancer.
Thanks for using my photo of P&S.! ^.^
thanks for using my pic of the turkey leg eating dude! That’s actually my husband! LOL!
This is an insight, because we have nothing like this in England…oddly enough…?