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Today was day 1 of the Silver Kingdoms Renaissance faire.

The faire is at the site of our own faire last year.

Of course, these folks own the site, so save the rental fee to have their own faire there.

Even at their faire there was a lot of extra room.

ravena_kade,

morgan_lafaye & her roommate had a booth next to ours selling jewelry and things.

We did our historical show and more fruit died for it.

There were some interesting costumes there.

Some of our members entered the boffer weapon tournament.

One won

We tried not to disrupt it.

Before our second historical show,

perrin_o_ravnos showed up. He did the bagging of my falchion opponent. Only faire given how often he has seen the inside of that bag himself.

The historical show went well.

Once we finished, some people came up to me and said they had driven “all the way from the ocean” to see the show and could we do it again?

The ocean is about 50 miles. But...

Meanwhile,

perrin_o_ravnos entered the next round of the tournament.

He ended up fighting Devon, one of our other members for the medium category win.

Of course he’s been fighting with us for 9 years, so I wasn’t surprised he won.

We did our final show after some musicians we’ve seen at plenty of other shows.

Although we weren’t so happy at our first show for a musician who ran late, for our last show with folks we liked, we had no problem waiting.

As I’m in 3 of the 4 we’re doing, I only got photos of the last one.

Some of our CT folks had family and friends show up late (for the impending surprise party for Dave) so we did another historical show, including throwing a spear at Dave in front of his family.