Sunday, January 13, 2013

The Renn Fest 2012




Once again it was that time of the year that Marcia, myself, and a few of our friends went up to Maryland for the Renn Fest and once again it was a great time. Turkey legs and all sorts of food was had and enjoyed by all. The highlight of the day this year was the Danger Committee who we got to meet in person and got them to sign a t-shirt for me and we got their Christmas DVD "A Stocking Full of Awesome" which has become a new Christmas Tradition for us. The DVD is awesome and the shirt is sweet as they signed it for me. On the back it has their oath that they make everyone swear before every performance.

"I do solemnly swear I will not go home and try any of the stupid crap I saw those guys do, even though it would make me super cool."








Which is really good advice as you can see in the video they are juggling tazers.





The rest of the day we wandered around the festival and watched a lot of different shows and performances and laughed and looked at some of the unique artistic items people had for sale. One guy had chocolate sculptures on a stick in different flavors, the chili pepper one was interesting tasty but hot. Marcia thought the hand mold sculptures were interesting. I still liked the blacksmith and think it would be cool to learn how to do that and make something really cool. I can make a sword out of wood and other materials but it would be very cool to make one out of metal.


New this year Rachel Gray came with us on the journey and we met up with Amanda, Blake, Jeff, and Deborah we all wandered around and then sat and watched the joust yelling "HUZZAH!!!" as our knight rode on to victory. We saw Johnny Fox the Sword Swallower again this year and although his main act never changes he is fun to watch as he interacts with the audience very sardonically. The rest of the time we wandered and looked at all of the.......interesting costumes people wore. It is amazing how much time people put into making these costumes and some turn out pretty good while others should never have been attempted.





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