Pictures from the Renaissance Festival.

As we enter the Labor Day weekend, I thought, why not post some more pictures from the Renaissance Festival my family and I enjoyed last July.

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Costumes

Walking through the shops and entertainment at the Colorado Renaissance Festival was like a time-line gone bizarre. Of course the majority of people were dressed for the hot weather, shorts and tee shirts, and then there were those that chose to dress for the fair in period pieces. At the entrance you could rent a costume for the day. Watching the mingling crowd was fun to observe and to photograph.

There were the nobility and royalty represented by the Elizabethan era. Mixed in with this were a lot of pirates. I had a vibrant conversation with one about how far they would come to bury their treasure. I saw Robin Hood a good distance away, (too far to get a good picture) what era was that? If I’m not mistaken between 1,100 and 1,200 A.D, he wasn’t wearing tights. There were faeries, no they weren’t the common everyday type, these faeries had wings and no, they weren’t flying silly, they were people dressed up like the magical creatures. The only picture I got of them didn’t turn out very well.

There were people from Scotland and Ireland, dressed in kilts. The bagpipe show was fabulous with the accompaniment of drums. A must see. They played traditional music with a good mix of contemporary songs. At one point they started with ‘The House of the Rising Sun,’ and blended in ‘Amazing Grace’ to finish. I found that a little strange, but enjoyable. There were other shows, one with washing wenches, another with German stand-up comics speaking perfectly good American English.

One thing I was curious about were the number of people sporting one or more fox tails. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get a good picture of this. I finally asked someone what this represented. He told me that during the Renaissance times, because people didn’t bathe regularly, they cut off the tails of animals they hunted and wore them so the fleas would go into the tail and not on them. Now that just made me itch!

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Torture in the Medieval and Renaissance Times:

At the Colorado Renaissance Festival there was a dungeon museum. By the time we reached it I just needed a little rest, so my daughters toured the museum and took pictures. All I can say about that is boy, I’m glad I didn’t live back then. Today we worry about accidents, car, plane, train and boat. They had to worry about being falsely accused and put in the dungeon. Today we worry about illness’ like cancer, which is long and painful, heart disease, kidney failure and many more. But we have hope of a medical break through and some of us live to be a 100 plus, still walking around in our right minds. They had to worry about the black plague or being tortured to death like having a cage with rats put on your stomach. Gross, but worse still, they put hot coals on top of the cage, as the coals got closer to the rats they ate your stomach to escape. Clearly, this was not a cast iron cage. So, considering all the various ways one could be tortured, I am content to dress up a couple times a year and play princess or pirate.

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Nancy

Colorado Renaissance Festival

We had a lot of fun. The Colorado Renaissance Festival runs from mid-June through the first weekend in August. I'll add more pictures daily, with a few comments. This group shows my two daughters and their children riding an elephant and a camel. Afterwords my grandson kept saying. "Meme, camel, Meme, elephant." Only, I can't type it the way he pronounced it.

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Colorado Renaissance Festival