The 21st. Annual Arizona Renaissance Festival

I met our family from Canada and the Brooks family and we went for breakfast at Krispy Kreams for yummy doughnuts.Then we went to spend the day at the Festival .It was a gorgeous day about 70 and clear blue skies.There were lot of people there too. It was Presidents Day holiday and the kids were out of school.We enjoyed several concerts. We loved the Pirate one. They sang nursery rhymes for the kids and added to the end of the song ,the words, the window,the window, throw it out the window, repeated three times. So it was very funny. We had a lot of fun doing that.Then the boys big and little tried the climb Jacob's ladder.A rope ladder which was very difficult to climb.No one was successful in accomplishing this feat. Dawson ,Danae, and Austin tried bungee jumping.We saw many people dressed victorian style.We thought we were in jolly ole England. Some of the costumes I will post photos. Austin tried his hand at the big hammer to make the gong ring.He got the plague flea one.The top one was the Kyng, the second one was the stable boy.We had our picnic lunch of large smoked turkey legs and fried onion rings.The fairies were very pretty with the kids.The main event was the Jousting between the Sir Knight Joseph which was the one we cheered for and the Pirate dressed in red.While charging on there horses in a big arena, they performed sword fighting and javelin contests.It was very exciting, We were the cheering section for Sir Knight Joseph. After we enjoyed Dexter the fire walker.As you will see he walked the tight rope of fire.He was great too.They had all new shows this year.The Merimaids sang and danced Irish Songs. We watched The Birds of Prey which all the boys liked. We saw this twice.After enjoying frozen chocolate bananas,and candy apples.We watched Dawson help a Black Bird Magician start a fire. Dawson had a tee shirt which said {It was'nt me!} on it.It was along day we left about 7 p.m.It was getting dark.We were all tired. What a day to remember.Double click on photos to enlarge for the full effect.