Halloween Weekend: Part 2 - Renfest

Saturday night after Bryan and Traci left, Corey, Cody and I packed up and headed over to Houston to Ryans place. We left around 6pm but the pics I took of the buildings at night came out horrible, digital cameras fail at night. I took this one the next morning:

We had never visited Ryan at his place in Houston so we took the opportunity to visit before the four of us left for Renfest. It also saved us the trouble of a hotel the night before, or driving all the way there in the morning. We were worried about getting there too late in the morning and having to deal with traffic and parking but they had more traffic control out this year as well as bigger signs to the location. The previous years it was a matter of knowing where the place was if you wanted to find it.

Cody and Corey dressed up, Ryan and I were the bums and didn’t. I like Renfest because you don’t feel so out of place not dressing up. I remember Scarborough Faire being a little snarky about not dressing up. The guys had gotten breakfast burritos before we left and wanting to steer clear of digestive distress I opted to wait to eat till we got to the Faire so the first thing we did was go and grab some Gyros and Mead from the Greek pavilion. (yeah i know mead and gyros but they are soo good together!) Here was my food:

Corey getting some mead: The cheapest place to get Redstone Mead if you dont have a Grapevine Market near your house.

While we were eating the Gypsies started playing and dancing over in the theater in the Greek section:

I love going to Renfest to see all the cool costumes everyone wears.

And for the first time I saw EVERY Renaissance being represented! See Grete below:

And of course the best part of the Faire is the fake jousting! Its like the rodeo for nerds:

My favorite thing about it is shopping, however the incense place we went to last year wasn’t there this year. They added some other cool artisan booths. The blacksmith was doing demos when we were there this time as well as the glass blower. There were a lot of new booths and vendors though, which was good because you see a lot of the same folks selling the same stuff you got last year. For instance we bypassed the leather cup store and the pirates sword shop because it was the same stuff we already had. This year was mostly about the mead and food. Both worth the trip.