Now if you are going to go to a Renaissance Fair, go to a professional one like the one in Bristol. Don't go to one hosted by the local Elk's club behind Wal-Mart. You will be bored, but a big one like the one in Bristol there's a lot more things to do. First of all, more activities. The Renaissance Fair Jake and I went to had a variety of activities to enjoy. There was archery, ax tossing, and a rock wall as well as others. The fair also had more shows, such as jousting, music, comedy acts, and acrobats. One of the shows we went was called Barely Balanced, a trio of comedic acrobats. I laughed so much I nearly cried.
There was also so much good food, I had a cheesecake on a stick. it was a slice of cheesecake coated in chocolate. As you can guess, I was off my diet that day. There were plenty of shops to buy nearly everything related to the medieval time period. My favorite shops were the ones that the toy weapons. When I went to a Renaissance Fair for the first time when I was 5 or 6, my dad bought me and my younger brother of two years wooden swords and shields. Yeah, he gave a 5/6-year-old and 3/4-year-old wooden weapons, you would think that could have been a disaster. It wasn't too much. Though seeing the wooden weapons now, there was swords, shields, spears, axes, maces, hammers, flails, and epees. If only they these things when I was a kid. There was also a shop that sold real swords, the cheaper ones cost as much as my weekly paycheck.
It's also fun to see people dressed up in costume. With a Renaissance Fair, you get people in medieval wear, fantasy wear, pirates, and even some steampunk. I surprise to see people in steampunk at a Renaissance Fair since steampunk deals with the Victorian Age. I also saw people dressed as members from the Assassin's Creed video game series.
Overall I enjoyed hanging out with my cousin, though I wish we had more time to explore the fair. I would love to go back to that Renaissance Fair again.
I'm Colin and these are the ramblings of a guy in his twenties.
