Hello my Rennie Friends,
So a few months ago Fangirl and I attended the Upstate Renaissance Faire & Medieval Market in South Carolina. Fangirl had worked the faire before and thought I'd enjoy it. I'd been missing going to a faire since the one in Asheville said adieu in 2005.
We left at the butt crack of dawn as the Captain's family would say. It was rainy and we hoped the faire being and hour and a half away would be out of it. We stopped for a McD's breakfast. Just a little something to give us a pick me up.
Due to not getting any sleep the night before I was tired. I'd hoped to nap while going there, but if I did it was like a minute or two. I enjoyed the new places I was seeing, noting the Dollar Generals every few miles on the road till we got to Greer.
Sadly the rain was here as well, but we were going to enjoy it anyway. Even if the lawn had ton of puddles. Fangirl purchased us some umbrellas at the previously mentioned Dollar Generals:
I was so happy to get to wear my dress I hadn't wore since the year of the Captains wedding where I got it, and the same year I wore it to be a dragon tamer. The hat I'm wearing I got at the 2004 Mountain Renaissance Adventure Faire.
Fangirl couldn't traverse some parts of the puddled lawn due to her balance issues she still has from her medical problems last year, so she'd find a seat and let me wander the faire so I could see it all.
It was fun going around the faire even if my feet got drenched in the puddles, they washed the pink off my skull beads on my shoes. I saw some great booths, so many things I wished I could have bought. I marveled at the blacksmith's tent a bit. I'm always fascinated at people crafting with fire. There was also performers there. I didn't get to see a lot cause we were getting drenched, but enough to have felt good about going.
So after the faire we headed back to North Carolina with a pit stop in Asheville since it was still early, we hadn't hung around the fair long since it was raining, so we stopped at Morgan's Comics to show off our garb and shop. By this time our McD's meal had warn off so we went to the Cracker Barrel, where I changed cause I needed to let the girls breath. While I was changing my dress Fangirl bought me a friend this cute reversible octopus! I hadn't been doing well because my night owlness at this time meant I got no sleep before I went out, and lack of sleep worked on my anxiety.
I brought the little guy to lunch with me. He apparently was craving french toast too.
We then went to Jo-Ann's for some costume supply shopping, and after a while wandered our tired way back home.
I highly recommend if your near the Upstate area of South Carolina It's free to get in, on flat land if you have issues with hills, and it's in a beautiful location. I definitely want to add this to my yearly events.
Well that's all for this post. Next time we'll talk the Smoky Mountain Geek Expo and 20th class reunions. Have a good week, God bless, and Huzzah!
