Way Back When
I always purchase at least two tickets to the Texas Renaissance Festival every year during their spring sale. Last year, unfortunately, I wasn’t able to visit TRF. This year, my daughter and I decided to make a spontaneous trip to the festival (with two tickets in tow). We arrived about thirty minutes later than we wanted to due to traffic, but that didn’t stop me from getting my first photo with the king!
Despite going to the festival for ten years now, this was the first time that I ever took a photo with His or Her Majesty. Next year I hope to get a photo with the Queen!
The first show that we watched was The Great Rondini! This was our first time to watch his performance and we’re glad that we did. Rondini is a superb magician and an excellent escape artist. After seeing him, we visited the Magic Garden where we ran into some fairies, a dancing class, and a topless girl from Texas!
After the garden, we headed to the Agora to watch Cirque Mythos and the Gypsy Dance Theatre. This was also the first time for my daughter and I to watch both of these groups, mainly because we spend so much time watching other shows. This year we decided to visit shows that we hadn’t seen before and we’re glad we caught both of these acts at the Agora!
As the day continued, we visited a few of the shops and ate and drank plenty of delicious things. I ended up purchasing two of the Gypsy Dance Theatre CDs and an adult beverage. My daughter got a Henna tattoo and some jewelry.
We also watched the Birds of Prey show (a first for me) and two of our favorite shows: The Fire Whip Show and Clan Tynker! All three of these performances were brilliant. As the years have passed, watching Adam Crack amaze audiences with his multiple whips has never grown old. Each year he continues to wow me, my daughter, and the crowds.
If I haven’t seen Clan Tynker perform, I haven’t been to TRF as far as I’m concerned. They were the first act that I ever saw at TRF and I’ve watched them every year ever since. They are family friendly and extremely fun to watch. This year I took a selfie with Santiago. If you ever go to TRF, I highly recommend checking out Clan Tynker!
One other new thing for us to experience was the Museum of Cruelty. It featured many devices of torture from the Dark Ages and even a few more “civil” torture devices such as the Guillotine and the Pillory.
I walked around the festival grounds with a massive grin on my face. It felt so good to be back “home” after having missed last year. Sooner or later I plan to camp at the festival to get the complete faire experience.
Here are a few other photos from our trip to TRF.
As always, thanks for reading my post. You might have noticed that I didn’t post anything for last week’s Throwback Thursday, and that’s because I was rather busy over the last week.
Expect posts covering DC Universe’s Titans real soon as well as other DC Universe offerings. I’m also going to throw in a few Christmas themed posts as well as we near that wonderful holiday.
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