Renaissance Festival

We decided to join some other friends of ours and head to the Renaissance Festival this year.  We had such a great time!  I love having these kids to take on little adventures, they make life so much more fun!

 

There were lots of fun activities there…Ryder did juggling school:

Daddy impressed us at the sledgehammer game, making the bell ring over and over, big muscles :)

Ryder shot a cannon..

He played on a Pirate Ship…

He got a shield and a sword (and later asked us to write Knight Ryder on them!)

Ryder and Daddy went down this huge slide…

What, you don’t see them coming down?!  Oh that was because Ryder chickened out once they got to the top, who didn’t know that was going to happen?!

Scott & Kara did go down though!

Ryder stuck to the smaller slide, which is still a big deal considering this is the first year he has come around and started sliding!

Of course we had to eat a turkey leg! (sorry Alan, had to use this picture as proof!)

And other yummy stuff, like chocolate covered cheesecake on a stick! (wow I’m really annoying with my mid-chew shots)

Your turn Maisy…

Awww the little monkey eating a banana cookie.  She was such a trooper the whole time.  Just rode around looking at every thing!

At one point Ryder tried to hop on and catch a ride…Poor Maisy!

The sweetest boys in the world bought me a beautiful pink rose!

 

The sweetest girl in the world wanted to hold it and smell it.

Then she turned mean and started slamming it on her stroller until it was nothing but rose petals on the ground!  She gets payback against her brother at every opportunity.

There were some pretty interesting things walking around this place…like this weird guy…

But there were some pretty awesome people there with us, like these people:

Our favorite newlyweds, the Bagley’s!

  

And The Seymour’s.

And us!  (apparently Ryder wanted to claim a different family at this point)

He was pretty attached to their little girl Kara and had a great time playing with her.

(or chasing her around telling her she had a belly ache and he was the belly ache doctor!)

I’ve known Justin & Scott for such a long time, I love that we have been able to keep in touch over all these years.

So that was our time at the Renaissance Festival.  Spent way too much money, but it was a great time with friends and the kids had a lot of fun, so it was worth it.

And…crash…