Daily Archives: September 30, 2018
Winged Warriors and Chicken Ladies . . .
Jan and I were out the rig door this morning about 8:45, heading for the Texas Renaissance Festival up in Plantersville, about 100 miles north of here.
We were supposed to meet up with Brandi, Lowell, and Landon, but they decided to try again another weekend.
We did make a Valero stop here in Santa Fe for gas and then got to the Festival about 10:45. We learned last year to pay the extra buck for Preferred Parking, which includes a golf cart ride to and from your vehicle to the front gate..
Much more important for the trip back to your car at the end of the day, believe me.
Since we hadn’t had breakfast . . . or coffee this morning, pretty much our first stop inside the gate was to get something to eat.
Jan went with a new treat for her, Avocado Toast.
A new treat, and now her new favorite.
I started with my Renfest fav, Sausage on a Stick,while Jan got her protein fix with Chicken on a Stick.
While we finished eating, we watched the Clan Tinker Circus troop. Made up of the Tinker brothers and sisters, they do magic tricks, and other acrobatic feats.
They picked this poor lady volunteer out of the audience to juggle knives around her,
and later did a neat fire trick.
We pretty walked the place from one end to the other, with Jan checking out the many shops, but only buying some new lotions and creams from her favorite shop.
Later we split a Funnel Cake from the Black Forest Inn area.
The perfect amount of sweetie goodness.
We also checked out our favorite Birds of Prey area with this King Vulture.
Not sure if he’s trained to do this, he was sunning himself, or he died a few years ago, and then they had him stuffed and put a small motor in his head. But whatever, he just stands there like this and let’s his picture be taken.
I did notice though that he kept checking out any small kids around him, and drooling.
One of the fun things about the RenFest is people-watching. You never know who, or what, you’ll see.
Anybody from Lady Godiva,
to the Chicken Girl,
to a Winged Warrior Princess.
We really lucked up on the weather today. Yesterday it was forecast for 90% chance of rain, but that percentage started dropping this morning, and finally went away. This left us with beautiful weather all day and not a drop of rain.
So much for The Weather Channel forecasts.
By the time we had finished seeing everything we wanted to see, we found ourselves at the far end of the park, a VERY long way from the exit. So we hired a rickshaw to carry us to the front gate, giving all the peons our ‘royal’ wave as our driver (puller?) yelled at people to get out of the way because important people were coming through.
We finally headed out about 3:15, getting home about 5. And not a drop of rain.
Tomorrow it’s back to work for one day until we head out for Florida on Wednesday. I’ve still got some things to finished up on Tuesday, but not a lot.
Thought for the Day:
I know from personal experience that a mad hornet is much faster than an old Ford tractor.
adfs
