Yesterday was a day to remember. The famous Scarborough renaissance fair!   Christopher, Caitlyn (my cousin), and I all dressed up for the occasion. Chris dressed up in a Robin Hood like costume. Caitlyn was a hunter dressed up in a leather like dress that she made herself. I was a fair maiden or a lady. I wore a dress that I have worn many times as an elf (like in The Lord of the rings.) and in a play. We have pictures of all of us we will see if we can get them up.my aunt and uncle and my parents dressed up in regular people of 2013. :) 

   when we got there, the entrance was the frount of a castle and they were getting the crowd ready to go in the king and queen walked atop of the castle and the towns people were putting on a little performance of acting. After this. Caitlyn all of the sudden plugged her ears and braced herself. Of course I am very confused and nervous. Then the queen and king said "open the Scarborough fair" then BOOM!!! A cannon went off! It was LOUD!! You could feel it in your chest! Now I understood my cousin. We were all aloud to go in. When we got in (and this was throughout the day) Oh man! The sites, the smells, the sounds, the laughter, the fun!!! I felt like I belonged there! No picture, no story can describe the true merriment in that fair!! It really felt like you were transported into the era. All the people who worked there dressed up and people who visited dressed up. Lets put it this way  few people dressed as if they were in the 21st century. Everyone acted as true ladies and true gentlemen or lords. If you were the part. Meaning some people were supposed to be drunkards  and of the sort. But most were of the royal kind. You can call me girly, you can call me silly, but I LOVED being call "m'lady" and "m'am " all day long! But there was one thing that I was called that I disliked! I was called "baby". Here is the story. 

   We were all walking and an African American dude said "come over here I am doing my show!"  We were the first ones there so we were in the frount. He said he was an escape artist and that he needed an assistant : 0!!!!  He said "she needs to be a woman, ...... Young,..... And RICH!"  we could tell it was either me or Caitlyn. But when he said rich.. I knew it was me. (there HAD to be gold on my dress!) I was very excited to go up there!!!.........… at first. He asked my name. After this he said that we needed to change my name, my identity to "baby". So I throughout the show he kept calling me baby. I knew he was just doing his show!but after he told me to do many things. I was....... Lets just say it went against everything mom and dad taught me not to get into. My uncle recorded most of it. We will try to get it up on the blog but it may not happen. But if we do and you watch it. There is crude humor. So just be warned. 

There are so many shows there but my favorite was the jousting. When you think of jousting you think of men in shining armor trying to knock the other knight off of his horse. This was family friendly. They had people hold rings for the knights to try to get their pole through. They did many variations. For example many rings at once rings, thrown up in the air, and of the sort. But there is more to this tale. (And if you are curious the good knights were on white horses) The crowd was in to sections, one half was rooting for the good and the other for the evil. We were on the good but we moved to the evil ;)! It was confusing because you have to boo for the good. But in my book ( and apparently Caitlyn's also) you cheer for everyone!! So many times we had to correct ourselves to say boo! They made it so that the knights had "arguments"  and interacted with the audience! Stuff like  the good says to the evil cheering crowd  "to all who boo us. I have one thing to say, I forgive you. For it is Sunday and it is the right thing to do" in such a manner it was priceless!! And the good to the evil  knights says "you are all embicils!" One of the evil knights says "I do not know what that what that means." The good knight says " it means   high and mighty!"   " Then we are all embicils!" Exclaimed the evil knight with his arm high, "in fact we are the greatest embicils of all!!" So in short they made jokes of that sort. 

   There were many, many things we did in that one extraordinary day! But those were my highlights!! 

  We are sitting here in the car dealership. The engine is having problems delaying our trip a bit. But they say an hour and a half. I pray that it won't be to terrible. But we are actually very happy. This kind of thing was expected, apparently.