the medieval faire!
Oct. 7th, 2006 04:40 pmIt's several days later, and I think I've finally recovered from my adventurous day of Medieval faire-going. I finally did go to the Return to Camelot Medieval Faire up in Fox Lake, but circumstances conspired and I didn't end up going in costume. Oh well!
But anyhow, it was a nice day, and it was in a sunny park and there was jousting, which very few faires seem to have anymore, so it was nice to see that. But there were only two jousters, they could only do about four passes. I remember the days when Bristol used to have whole tournaments. But of course, there's something more magical about a joust when you're a little girl in a pink princess dress, sitting on a fence and eating ice cream in the rain while seeing knights in armor up on horses for the first time in your life. And then we got a picture with one of them with blood on his armor. Somehow, it's more exciting when people get unhorsed and there's blood. ;-D
Or maybe I'm just growing more hardened in my old age, because I have to say, of all the vendors there, I spent most of my time looking at the weaponry! Jewelry I have, and clothes I can make, but weaponry... that's a whole different kettle of fish! And it's just so pretty! The bejewelled and inlaid pistols and daggers are truly works of art. All the ones I liked were on the expensive side, however, and pretty heavy for carrying around a faire all day. There was one nice little Middle Eastern dagger with a curved scabbard that was prettily embossed, and very light, that I really wanted, but I didn't have any money, and Mum wouldn't get it for me. I tried to explain that I was going to make up the Folkwear Gaza dress next year, in order to portray a European noble lady whose true love was a Crusader whom she followed to the Holy Land, and who would therefore need a dagger to protect herself, but Mum is very unimaginative, and unmoved by such ideas. So, I was forced to return dagger-less, but hopefully I'll be able to either come up with some money or some guilt to lay on Mum by next year!
I also saw a very nice 'poison ring' there, which I thought would be great to send to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
solidor, accompanied by a note to the effect of 'Now you can make the Borgias proud!', but someone bought the last one! ;-D
Probably the best part of the whole day, though, was actually when we were driving back home. We stopped at a park on Beaver Dam Lake, just as the sun was setting over it. It was SO beautiful. The water was calm and glassy, and reflected the blazing pink and blue sky so that everything glowed in the sunset. There was a little island in the middle of the lake, and I found myself composing poems about Avalon and the Lady of the Lake in my mind. :)
And to top it all off, I got home in time for the new episode of Inspector Lynley!
But anyhow, it was a nice day, and it was in a sunny park and there was jousting, which very few faires seem to have anymore, so it was nice to see that. But there were only two jousters, they could only do about four passes. I remember the days when Bristol used to have whole tournaments. But of course, there's something more magical about a joust when you're a little girl in a pink princess dress, sitting on a fence and eating ice cream in the rain while seeing knights in armor up on horses for the first time in your life. And then we got a picture with one of them with blood on his armor. Somehow, it's more exciting when people get unhorsed and there's blood. ;-D
Or maybe I'm just growing more hardened in my old age, because I have to say, of all the vendors there, I spent most of my time looking at the weaponry! Jewelry I have, and clothes I can make, but weaponry... that's a whole different kettle of fish! And it's just so pretty! The bejewelled and inlaid pistols and daggers are truly works of art. All the ones I liked were on the expensive side, however, and pretty heavy for carrying around a faire all day. There was one nice little Middle Eastern dagger with a curved scabbard that was prettily embossed, and very light, that I really wanted, but I didn't have any money, and Mum wouldn't get it for me. I tried to explain that I was going to make up the Folkwear Gaza dress next year, in order to portray a European noble lady whose true love was a Crusader whom she followed to the Holy Land, and who would therefore need a dagger to protect herself, but Mum is very unimaginative, and unmoved by such ideas. So, I was forced to return dagger-less, but hopefully I'll be able to either come up with some money or some guilt to lay on Mum by next year!
I also saw a very nice 'poison ring' there, which I thought would be great to send to
solidor, accompanied by a note to the effect of 'Now you can make the Borgias proud!', but someone bought the last one! ;-DProbably the best part of the whole day, though, was actually when we were driving back home. We stopped at a park on Beaver Dam Lake, just as the sun was setting over it. It was SO beautiful. The water was calm and glassy, and reflected the blazing pink and blue sky so that everything glowed in the sunset. There was a little island in the middle of the lake, and I found myself composing poems about Avalon and the Lady of the Lake in my mind. :)
And to top it all off, I got home in time for the new episode of Inspector Lynley!
