|
Post by Sir Black Fox on May 18, 2009 6:06:43 GMT -5
Although Saturday's gate count was just over 500 folks, every one of them had an incredible time at The Virginia Renaissance Festival. The new vendors were awesome and some of the more seasoned vendors had permanent buildings!! The place is growing in leaps and bounds and if you need to get your faire-on, this is the event to start with. Saturday saw some personal ups and downs (literally ups and downs). Up because folks like Mike & Joanne, Blair and April, showed up to hang with me for a bit in the new version of the Pyrates Way/Faire Magazine tent (when it was up). Then came a huge gust of wind and pulled the whole thing down. . . . so I had to set it up as version #2 which held up the rest of the day. Then the big winds and über-rain started and I took the tent down myself during the night . . . . put it all away as the rains got worse in the a.m. and bugged out before the show opened. VARF also experienced some wind/rain damage, including a corner of the pub tent collapsing (repairs were underway when I left). I STILL had a blast and can't wait to get back down there this coming weekend as all the McCrack family show up to party. I'm going down there early on Friday to set up tent version #3 (de-bugging and redesign has been underway since 6 a.m.). Go to : www.varf.org for more information on the festival and then GO!
|
|
|
Post by Scotsman on May 18, 2009 8:46:31 GMT -5
See you on Saturday!
|
|
|
Post by Mathemactor on May 18, 2009 11:47:37 GMT -5
Go to : www.varf.org for more information on the festival and then GO! Hmmm. It turns out the the weekend of May 30-31 is one in which I am actually between plays! (No performances!) and so I am going to try to get down to VARF that weekend---I'm not sure yet which day. And, strangely enough, it will be the first time in my (long, long) life that I have actually attended a Renaissance festival as a patron (and, for that matter, the first one outside of MDRF that I will have ever attended.) I'm not sure how to be a customer, but I'll try. Now, I don't have a costume (outside of tights, which I won't wear by themselves), so I'll probably be in the same stuff I wore to the sheep and wool festival---tee shirt and jeans. And I look forward to attending. By the way, is there any food-on-a-stick available down there?
|
|
|
Post by willpaisley on May 18, 2009 16:15:37 GMT -5
Although Saturday's gate count was just over 500 folks, every one of them had an incredible time at The Virginia Renaissance Festival. The new vendors were awesome and some of the more seasoned vendors had permanent buildings!! The place is growing in leaps and bounds and if you need to get your faire-on, this is the event to start with. Saturday saw some personal ups and downs (literally ups and downs). Up because folks like Mike & Joanne, Blair and April, showed up to hang with me for a bit in the new version of the Pyrates Way/Faire Magazine tent (when it was up). Then came a huge gust of wind and pulled the whole thing down. . . . so I had to set it up as version #2 which held up the rest of the day. Then the big winds and über-rain started and I took the tent down myself during the night . . . . put it all away as the rains got worse in the a.m. and bugged out before the show opened. VARF also experienced some wind/rain damage, including a corner of the pub tent collapsing (repairs were underway when I left). I STILL had a blast and can't wait to get back down there this coming weekend as all the McCrack family show up to party. I'm going down there early on Friday to set up tent version #3 (de-bugging and redesign has been underway since 6 a.m.). Go to : www.varf.org for more information on the festival and then GO! Good to find out what happened to you. I was rather busy the first part of the day (I missed dress rehearsal for obvious reasons, so I was constantly being blindsided by additions to the schedule ), so I just caught glimpses of you reassembling your tent. I didn't really put two and two together until I came on Sunday and saw that you were gone. Not a bad day to miss, from a vendor perspective - cold, damp and quiet (VARF isn't yet big enough to need rain days to drive off the 'danes the way MDRF does). This Saturday - M'Cracks and O'Dannys, together in rural Virginia. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. By the way, is there any food-on-a-stick available down there? Believe it or not, I don't think so. There are all of two food vendors; one serving fish and chips (as well as Scotch Eggs) and one serving grilled/wokked pitas. Looks like it's BYOS (Bring Your Own Stick).
|
|
|
Post by Sir Black Fox on May 18, 2009 21:11:15 GMT -5
By the way, is there any food-on-a-stick available down there? Will's right. . . the only viable food-on-a-stick is the $7.00 turkey legs which Blair said were OK. . . however. . . there are LOTs of sticks in the woods . ..so if spider, beetle, tick, or bug-on-a-stick is your favorite form of protein, FREE EATS!
|
|
|
Post by Scotsman on May 19, 2009 5:53:24 GMT -5
Mmmm ... I'll stick with Guinness!
|
|