My Visit to the Georgia Renaissance Festival

In May 2006, my loving husband decided to take the children and I to the Georgia Renaissance Festival. I had only been to it once before. When I was a teen my Advanced English highschool class had taken us on a field trip to the Georgia Renaissance Festival. My friends and I had so much fun that I couldn't wait to return some day. I knew it would be a while since my parents would never have gone to something like the Festival, nor would I have been allowed to drive all the way to Atlanta myself.

So back to May. A mere 13 years had passed since my last visit to the Festival. Each Spring, when the festival would arrive, I would pine to go. There were always reasons not to go. We didn't have the money. My husband thought it was stupid and didn't want to go. The children were too young. The weather was bad. Just always something.

Well for Mother's Day, Tim (my husband) had heard my pining long enough. He got up the day before and said "Let's go to the Renaissance Festival tomorrow". I was so excited that I yelled "REALLY!?". Of course, I suppose it helped that one of his work buddies told Tim about how much fun the festival was. Thank you Josh!

We woke up early Sunday morning. Since we live over and hour and a half away from the festival site, we had to get on the road early to make it down there before the gates opened. We loaded the girls up in the van and off we went. Everyone was so excited but none more than I.

We arrived at the festival about 15 minutes before the gates opened. The parking lot was already very full and there were people standing around everywhere. Many were dressed up in their Renaissance costumes. What a sight to see. There were also a lot of the festival actors and actresses roaming through the crowd and mingling with the commoners.

I saw some lords and ladies. A few Musketeers. Some fairies and pixies. There was even a very friendly executioner carrying his rope noose. He was yelling that we were all terrible at being an unruley mob. Apparently, in his opinion, we needed more pushing and shoving to obtain our unruley mob status.