I would like to wish all you fall-breakers a belated welcome back to midterm season! I hope you used the weekend to catch up on all your studies, because I sure didn’t.
Instead, I was busy losing my Renaissance Fair V-Card by attending the Maryland Renaissance Festival (don’t judge), in Crownsville, Maryland! Ye faire, started in 1977, takes place in the “16th century English village” named “Revel Grove”, located on “a beautiful 25-acre wooded site” in the outskirts of Annapolis. The event runs every weekend this year from August 23 to October 19 (rain or shine), so you still have one more chance to check it out, if you so desire.
I knew the moment I stepped onto the grounds, and was greeted by the most depressed-looking teenager in a ridiculous Renaissance costume handing out programs, that this fair would be a good time.
Some highlights:
1. Food on a stick - Because what’s a Renaissance fair without giant turkey legs and “steak on a stake”?
2. Delightful anachronisms - Like this sign for ATM’s.
Some lowlights (sp?):
1. Food on a stick - Because some foods, Renaissance fair or not, were never meant to be served on a stick (example: mac and cheese and chocolate covered cheesecake).
2. Awful costumes - While many customers participated in the festivities wearing era-appropriate costumes that added to the atmosphere of the fair, even more appeared looking like Jack Sparrow, or more inexplicably, animals.
3. Painful-to-watch stage actors - Like the self-deprecating sword swallower who felt the need to waste our time by cracking corny jokes and doing bad magic tricks before getting to what everyone came to watch in the first place.
4. Jousting - Sucks. It’s nothing like this. Or even this. Or even this.
Tags: Annapolis, Crownsville, Jack Sparrow, Jousting, Maryland Renaissance Fair, Sword-swallowing, V-Card
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October 1st, 2009 at 6:17 pm
I love to go to the Renaissance Fair! It is a great time for the whole family.