Weather was perfect for the Renfaire yesterday (although admittedly the traffic going both up and back was a horror show.) It was a nice birthday excursion for Ariel and three of her friends, Alyssa, Danica and Noelle.
The costumes Kathleen did up looked great. And I have to say, I began to enjoy all the bowing and scraping from a number of the attendees, including guys who went to one knee and cried out, “King Arthur! My liege!”
Every so often someone would try to be challenging, shouting out things like, “Where are the coconuts?” To which I would reply archly, “Bloody peasants. Come, Patsy.” And I would gallop away with Kathleen right behind me, banging two coconuts together, while Caroline rode in the backpack on Kathleen’s back, wearing a jester hat and clutching a white Monty Python huge-fanged plush bunny.
Best was the bellydancers who hauled me up on stage during their performance and I danced with them while Kathleen discovered that her digital camera was out of memory. And the crowd was shouting “Hail to the king!” and “Long live Arthur!”
Right now I’m sitting here wearing the crown. Feels good.
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“It is good to be the King!”
Well, I’d say something like “Don’t let it go to your head”, but that’s exactly like where the crown is. Hmmm…. 😉
Sounds like a good time was had by all. I would have loved to have seen the looks on the faces of the coconut hecklers as you galloped off.
Hail to the king, baby!
It’s at times like that that you go back through the pictures you’ve taken, and decide which one to delete to free up memory.
Any word on a new King Arthur book? Last 2 where great! =-)
Enter your own Bubba Ho-Tep expletive filled line here…
Travis
Peter, etal.:
If any of you folks out there ever happen to find yourselves in Texas during any October, the annual Texas Renaissance Festival is every weekend that month and well worth attending.
“Must be a king.”
“How can you tell?”
“He hasn’t got s**t all over him.”
Preceding lines may fault for accuracy due to diaper duties.
Well, I guess it’s true. Camelot is a silly place.
that really is the cutest baby ever.
All hail King Author! (Or have ya heard THAT one before?)
I just want to know why King David…
(hmm, that’s another joke entirely…)
…why King David’s wearing the symbol from Robur the Conqueror’s aerial fortress, the “Albatross,” as seen in the Vincent Price movie “Master of the World.”
If so, everyone with him should wear one of those striped jerseys and the little hat with the tassel.