The McKinney Family: Renasance Festival

In September we were able to go to our local (almost 2 hours away) Renasance Festival. Wow there were a lot of people! It was pretty cool. We went with a small group of people and because one of the guys we went with works for a DJ company, they let him rent their party bus for us to go in. It played music, and had lights, and even a fog machine. The kids really liked it.

There was a movie being filmed at this festival, "All's Fair in Love". I believe that Jack Black & Hillary Duff are in it. I think that's what some of the radio stations were saying. They were telling people that if they went in costume, they could audition for extra's in the movie. How fun. No, none of us went in costume. But it would have been fun.

Our driver bought an arrest warrent and had Tim put in jail for Falling Out of the Ugly Tree. One of the workers came and arrested him and then paraded us thru the street's all the way to the jail. We did stop in front of a group of visitors so that Tim could plead to them for his release. He was sent on to jail, they took no pity. It was fun and Tim did it up good.

We watched the royal parade go thru the town, complete with Queen Elizabeth (?). Later on in the day we watched a jousting match and that was fun, we had seats right at the rail. Ethan loved watching the horses and it was pretty cool watching a "real" jousting match. We even saw a guy dressed like a pirate that looked like Johnny Depp as Capt'n Jack.

Here are some fun photo's:

Merrick & Ethan parting on the Party Bus. You should have seen us on the way home.....

Half of the crew was sleeping.

Prince Merrick

(now he can see how he'd look like w/really, really long hair)

Prince Ethan

Princess Sophia

King Tim

Queen Christy

Johnny Depp

Look-a-like

Tim being presented his "Arrest Warrent" and then led off to jail

Tim pleading with a group of people to be kind and spare him the fate of jail. They denied him.

Tim enjoying the view from jail

In order to be set free, the prisioners had to do everything the guy in the kilt made them do. Including this silly song and dance. It was fun to watch Tim.