Renaissance Festival

Last weekend our family headed up to Ogden. McKenna was preforming at the Renaissance Festival. We decided to make a weekend of it. We had a great time! It was really nice to get away and just spend time together. In addition to the great sites we saw we had fun hanging out at the hotel pool.



The Festival itself was really fun (not as good as the one in Arizona--but pretty cool). There is a story behind the picture of Gannon. We were walking down the little path when this man approached Gannon and wanted to "Knight" him. He made him kneel on a little pillow, he had him pinkie promise to be a good Knight and then sealed the whole deal with his finger print. Gave him a sword and then turned to us and said "that'll be 5 bucks". (Meanwhile a woman had taken Kennedy off to the side and was making her a fairy.) So my 5 bucks quickly became 10. I was so taken back.....I didn't know whether to be mad or impressed with his marketing. Gannon took the pleage to heart--only I think he may have been a dark knight-- many a knight was hit from behind so I figured it was worth the 5 bucks to watch grown men run from a 3 year old that approches and says "FIGHT".

The jousting was really good too. I didn't realize it was an actual sport. Our show had a near catastrophe which only added to the realism.