ren fest 2007
again, despite my better judgement….
for some reason i got a bug in my brain that saturday we should go to the Minnesota Ren Fest. not to call anyone and plan to get together, just get up and go. and we did and it was fantastic.
boo loved it. one of the first things we did was get our face-painted. boo picked her own design, between strawberries or a butterfly. she picked strawberries. and she sat so still and had the funniest look on her face during the face-painting, but when it was done, she loved it.
then, i bought her a purple fairy skirt and wings - which literally made her squeal with delight. she just wanted to run around and be a fairy - which was good because most girls her age are enamored of being princesses. lots of ren fest folks commented on the tiny purple fairy, “must have washed her in too much hot water!”, etc. it was great. our little strawberry pixie.
we went to the petting zoo and she loved it. there was a sheep hearding/sheep dog demonstration going on and we were at the back of the pen. so when the sheep dog rounded up all the sheep, they charged right at us. boo thought it was the best thing ever, then the dog herded them out again and she said “oh, going away, bye bye.” hubbin took her on an elephant ride and to see horses. the two of them spent a half an hour at the herpetological society looking at turtles while i did some shopping.
all in all a really good day. i’m so glad we went.