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Saturday, May 10, 2008

Utah Renaissance Festival

We hit up the Utah Renaissance festival this weekend. It was the first time we have ever been to something like this. We were looking forward to it - to seeing lots of people dressed up, sword fighting, jousting, midevil food and everything else.


Well....we walked away from the event probably giving it 4 out of 10 stars. There were TONS of midevil clothing vendors, but not many food places (Dustin wanted to try all the food)...in fact Dustin was shocked they were charging $8 for a turkey leg! They had some booths that were suppose to show how they made all the weapons and stuff...but of course they all had signs up saying "we will be back later". Okay who does that during a middle of a Saturday? We found one group of people that did "actual" sword fighting. Then right before we left we found the jousting. That was cool to see - our poor knight we were rooting for got knocked to the ground though - it has to hurt really bad, the armour weights so much you can't get off the ground without help. Oh - and we finally concluded that all the high school nerds hang out at these things - apparently they LOVE to dress up and talk all midevil.


We definitely don't regret going - but probably won't go to this again here in Utah..... oh well as they say... Hazzah!


Nick and Sarah - check out the headgear!


"Actual sword fighting"


Dustin, Brandon and Nick - enjoying some rootbeer!


Zach being cool - he actually wore the sunglasses for quite some time


Jousting - pretty dang cool

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