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My World Tuesday – Renaissance Fair
Posted by Stephany on November 23, 2009
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2:54 pm on November 23rd, 2009
The Carolina Renaissance Festival is a 16th century European-style medieval amusement park. Encompassing 22 acres in Huntersville, NC, it is one of the largest Renaissance fairs nationwide. This year marked the 16th annual celebration for the festival and was open on the weekends from October 10th to November 22nd.
Once you make the long journey (buy a walking stick!) from the parking lot, you will find 10 stages, along with numerous cottages, castles, kitchens and pubs (all buildings are permanent), street performers, rides, an arts and crafts fair, a jousting tournament and much more. The rides are very unusual and I was particularly impressed (it doesn’t take much to amuse me, eh?) with the huge rocking horse. I don’t have the exact dimensions but the head appeared to be about 6 feet high.
The food was good, the crafts were lovely and the entertainment was wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed the Tortuga Twins play, Big Bad Wolf, (the LC rating stands for “Loose Cannon”) and had a good laugh at the semi-raunchy filk songs of the Washer Wenches. I couldn’t stand long enough to watch all of the jousting, performed by the Hanlon-Lees Action Theatre so I missed the joust to the death.
The photos are broken into groups – general, faces, crafts, jousting – and I have just posted a sampling. If you would like to see the rest of them, please check this comment for a link in a couple of days.
You can learn more about the Carolina Renaissance Festival here.
3:46 pm on November 23rd, 2009
Hi Steph, love how you captured your shots, very clear and good lighting, too! I love the Village. I think we have one here, but I have never been to any of the festivals. I’d like to dress up too, if I go. How about you?
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Ebie, I have a lovely blue costume but I couldn’t remember which box it was in. It is fun to dress up for these festivals! — Steph
4:08 pm on November 23rd, 2009
It looks like great fun. One of these days I should go to a Renaissance Fair.
4:30 pm on November 23rd, 2009
Looks like you had a great day. Lovely serie of shots. Thanks for sharing :-)
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4:51 pm on November 23rd, 2009
Lovely photographs and I love your header.
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4:59 pm on November 23rd, 2009
your blog is fantastic!!! your photos magig!!!thanks for visitng my blog :))
5:22 pm on November 23rd, 2009
What great pictures. That must have been a beautiful day
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7:20 pm on November 23rd, 2009
That looks so much fun, a great My World post.
7:54 pm on November 23rd, 2009
Hi Stephanie! What a fabulous post and such colorful, terrific captures! It does look like such a fun, wonderful day!
Enjoy!
Sylvia
8:46 pm on November 23rd, 2009
Wonderful photos. There is a wonderful Renaissance Faire near Houston and it’s been years since we’ve been. Your post makes me want to go!
9:32 pm on November 23rd, 2009
Great set of photos. I went to a Renaissance festival once in Maryland and had a blast! Very entertaining to say the least.
Thanks for stopping by. :)
9:35 pm on November 23rd, 2009
Great pictures. It looks like everyone was having a good time.
10:52 pm on November 23rd, 2009
Stephany: What fun captures of the fair, nicely shot.
10:53 pm on November 23rd, 2009
Great photos from the festival – looks like everyone was having a bunch of fun.
11:28 pm on November 23rd, 2009
That looks like my kind of fair.
I love medieval festivals!
The pictures are beautiful and show us how much fun everyone had.
The weather looks great too :D
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1:47 am on November 24th, 2009
Looks like so much fun! I would love to go to one of these. Your wonderful shots captured well the merriment of the activities.
2:33 am on November 24th, 2009
It’s been a lot of years since I last attended a Renaissance Fair, but I remember having a lot of fun. Thanks for the great photos to jog my memory.
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2:52 am on November 24th, 2009
This must be a wonderful place schoolchildren to experience European history! Great pictures Stephany! Have a nice week.
3:34 am on November 24th, 2009
Wow, great pictures! Thanks for the information and I’m looking forward for more of this lovely pictures.
5:16 am on November 24th, 2009
The Renaissance festivals are great fun. Your photos are so sharp! Well done.
7:47 am on November 24th, 2009
This looks like an exciting place to visit! You got some great pictures of the fair!
9:16 am on November 24th, 2009
What MARVELOUS photos of this Renaissance Event! The colors and details just POP off the screen and bring back wonderful memories of Renaissance Faires I’ve attended in the past. Just BEAUTIFUL ;-)
Hugs and blessings,
9:33 am on November 24th, 2009
I love, love, love fairs and this one looks so much fun.
1:22 pm on November 24th, 2009
Oh what fun. Very colorful. Thanks for sharing.
8:18 pm on November 24th, 2009
I love these fairs, even if they don’t spell “Wrenaissance” correctly. :)
6:20 pm on November 26th, 2009
Nice captures! I really like the jouster. The colors on the leaf/butterfly shot jumps.
Remember the fair in Sarasota? Yours looks much better. Maybe I’ll come up for the next one.
4:48 pm on December 7th, 2009
I love that horse. ;-)
Paz
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