Texas Renaissance Festival!

My sister and I took the girls to The Texas Renaissance Festival yesterday. I've been going there since I was a kid and it's one of my absolute favorite places. We started with the Dragon Swings

 and then the King's Swings

Naia was a bit scared at first and not sure of all the loud noises.

Eaden, on the other hand, was excited about everything!

We watched a really neat demonstration on birds of prey.

 We watched The Mud Show

Then we had some lunch

and watched the Gypsy Dance Theatre.

We watched a parade of characters.

They loved Naia and she started to loosen up a bit.

We saw all sorts of folk throughout the day (no parade needed).

We checked out some demonstrations (they have an armoury, blacksmithing, broom making, candle making, coin minting, glass blowing, metal casting, pole lathing,  printing, papermaking, and weaving.)

Naia decided she was ready for The Dragon Swings.

Then we headed over to The Arena for a good ole' jousting match!

We sat in the English part of the stadium and so became English, chanting "England until we die!"

We didn't fare so well.

Here I am with my sister at the Renaissance Festival. I was probably about 10.