Thursday, July 06, 2006

Twins?

Two Alpacas
Two Alpacas







Chewie and I
Chewie and I









As stated previously Chewie and I went to the Virginia Renaissance Fair last month. As you can tell from the picture it was very hot. In my happy hands you can see the mug I purchased. I got a pretty cool one for Elle with a pirate logo on it.

As you can see in the picture I was wearing a bright red baseball cap. We were sitting in the bar, enjoying the frosty goodness of a couple beers, when I was called up on stage by "Dinty the Moor". I figure my hat got his attention. He of course had no idea what he was getting himself into, we traded some banter back and forth for a bit. The gist of his schtick was that myself and the other guy he pulled up were going to fight a duel, with Plastic French Cocktail Swords. The first person who's sword broke was supposed to die in a dramatic fashion. Mine did. So I died. In a dramatic fashion. The audience loved it. Afterwards as we were taking pictures of some random things we wanted to remember, one of the ladies from the audience approached me to tell me what a good job she thought I had done (Specifically she said that I should think about taking lessons, so I could do more). It was a pretty good day over all. There are more pictures here, you can even see Dinty in a couple of them.

2 comments:

Lindsay Lamar said...

Dinty the Moore is an awesome name. And it's absolutely hilarious that someone saw a spark of potential in you :) But man! I wish people in Alaska realized how awesome the fair is in their own back yards! I'm sure the fair in Virginia was fun (and I'm sure it took less time to strike), but looking at the pictures makes me REALLY appreciate the amazing job that everyone does for the fair in Anchorage.

It looks like it was incredibly hot. Props to those people in costume :)

Anonymous said...

You really should consider those lessons though, I mean a REAL ren faire performer recommended them to you.

Heh...

Matt