Ohio Renaissance Festival 2010 Photos

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I just wanted to share the photos from where Tony & I went to the Ohio Renaissance Festival up in Harveysburg, Ohio yesterday with all of you here.  I also wanted to take the time to mention to all of you that you missed a decent time up there at the festival this year.  Today, (October 17, 2010) is the last day for the festival for 2010, so after today, the festival is now closed until next year, (the American Labor Day weekend in 2011!!)


Tony and I were at the festival with one of my co-workers, Danielle and Tony's friend, Dave yesterday.  Tony, Danielle and I were at the first mud show of the day yesterday and I would like to talk about that mud show in some detail here before I show you all the slide show that I have from the photos that I took yesterday.  The reason why I want to talk about the mud show in more detail is because a whole lot of the photos in the slide show are of the mud show here.


The guy who did the narrating for the mud show, a character named "Chunky" wasn't there this year.  In Chunky's place was a character named "Willie Winkie" or something like that at the mud show.  When you watch the slide show from the festival below, "Willie Winkie" or whatever his name was yesterday is the guy in the blue plaid kilt, the curly blond hair and red beard.  Tony and I are in agreement about Willie Winkie  --  he was not that good as an actor, although the guy got all of the lines right, etc.  In fact Willie Winkie made Tony and me miss Chunky being on that stage at the mud show really bad, because Willie wasn't any where near as funny or personable as Chunky has always been at the shows in the past 7 years.  In fact, last night, I told Tony that Willie Winkie needed to "Go home, do a lot more practice and come back in 10 years" or something to that effect as Tony and I were walking in to the local grocery store to buy our groceries.


Other than the mud show, Tony and I had fun with Danielle and Dave at the festival.  It was actually great to get to walk around with another girl at the festival by myself and have Tony hanging out with just Dave as well.  Now, as a side note, no Tony and I were not trying to hook Dave and Danielle up as a couple, (because both Dave and Danielle are single!)  Tony and I actually invited Dave and Danielle up there with us, so Tony and I could have somebody other than ourselves to hang out with for a change.


On a different note about the festival, Danielle and I went through the "Tower of London" torture chamber together.  I now have some comments about the "Tower of London" as well.  The price to get in to the "Tower of London" has dropped from $5 to $3 for adults and it is now free for children 5 and younger.  I would definately not take a child under the age of 5 inside of that "Tower of London" at the festival because it would probably give them nightmares, due to some of the stuff that is in there being on the more gruesome side  --  in fact, there's even a note stating this information at the booth where you pay to get inside of the exhibit.  There is also a notice under the sign that shows the admission price to the "Tower of London" that also says "No photography or videography permitted inside," so you will not be seeing any photos from the inside of the "Tower of London," but you will be seeing the outside of the place in a few different spots in the slide show below.


As far as taking photos go inside of the "Tower of London," I wouldn't dare take any photos inside of there, because it needs to be redone.  There is several spots that are actually showing some serious signs of wear and tear inside of the exhibit, like the part of the "Neglected cell," where the guy has hung himself.  If you look at the hanging guy inside of the neglected cell closely enough, you can tell that his right leg has broken off at the knee and it keeps moving up and down in the breeze (but inside of the pants that the dummy is wearing in the display), not to mention that the plaster is starting to seriously peel off of the dummy's face, hands and feet as well in this particular display.  This isn't the only part of the "Tower of London" that needs some serious touching up here.  A lot of the other figures are suffering a simular fate to the dummy in the "Neglected cell"  --  the plaster is starting to crack and peel really badly in different places in those figures as well.  There is one display that the figure looks "Okay," (if you want to call it that here) and it is the figure that is in the "Seven steps to heaven" display  --  it isn't showing any signs of any kind of weathering or the other issues that I mentioned above that are wrong with some of the dummies in the other displays.


One thing in the "Tower of London" that I thought was great was that some of the figures were actually moving, (even if it was only very limited movement, mind you!!)  The executioner was moving up and down somewhat with a decapitated person's head in the executioner's one hand, while the executioner held his axe in his other hand.


Tony told me that he enjoyed the belly dancing, but not all of the cigarette smoking that Tony had to deal with at the belly dancing show that Tony and Dave went to while Danielle and I were going through the "Tower of London" on the other side of the park.  Tony said that the one blond headed girl who did the belly dancing last year (in 2009) was there again and the girl had another (different) girl with her from who was with the blond headed girl last year.


Any way, enough about what Tony and I did at the festival with Danielle and Dave for now.  Here are the much awaited photos from what the four of us did yesterday at the Ohio Renaissance Festival in Harveysburg, Ohio.  Tony and I hope that you can join us there next year, (in 2011!!)  Tony and I hope that you enjoy the below photos!!  :)

2010 Ohio Renaissance Festival Plug & Announcement

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Here is an informational video that I just shot that I wanted to share with all of you today about the Ohio Renaissance Festival this year, (2010.)  I am also going to include a link here to see the actual copy of the photo album that I show in the below video here in a moment, but first, I want to say that as far as the video goes, I have a request in it that is of interest to  all of you about going to the 2010 festival with me.

Any way, here is the link to the page that the photo album that I show in the video below is located on to see it yourself:  http://tonymelaniesphotos.shutterfly.com .

Now, for the afore mentioned video, folks!!  I hope that you all have a great evening!!  :)

Ohio Renaissance Festival Information.

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If you are still interested in joining me on October 16, 2010 at the Ohio Renaissance Festival in Harveysburg, Ohio; please leave me a message here with your real name and a legitimate e-mail address for yourself and I'll shoot you an e-mail with the particulars on the event!  I also have some other information here below for all of you tonight!


I am going to be leaving from where I live here (in Cold Spring, Kentucky) with my huband, Tony around 8 am local time, [which is Eastern time, by the way] to get up there to the festival, because it takes me like an hour and some change to actually get up there from here.  Tony and I hope that you can join us this year!


As a side note, (and I cannot off hand remember if I have mentioned this information previously here), if it rains in the days preceeding the day that Tony and I are heading up to the festival, the grounds there are going to be rather muddy, so if you join us there, please be advised to wear closed toed shoes, or you're going to end up with some muddy, little piggies on your feet!!  It would also be a great idea to take up a light weight jacket, because in October, it gets rather nippy rather quickly in Harveysburg, Ohio; not to mention that it gets rather chilly on that hillside where the festival grounds are located there as well.


Some other useful information is that you might want to bring your digital camera with plenty of batteries, so you can take pictures, while you are at the festival.  Oh, and if you go to the mud show, please try to not sit in the front row or in the front middle with your digital camera out, because those guys actually throw mud and I've actually gotten mud on me in 2007 from the guys throwing mud during the show that I watched that year, (not that I'm complaining, mind you, I'm just warning you now!!)  If you opt to sit in the front row or even where you can see the mud show really well, I also reccommend that you buy yourself a disposable camera or 2 and use them exclusively at the mud show, (which is what I did last year and it was worth it, folks!!)


On a more cost effective note  --  you can pick up the admission tickets on the web page that I have posted in a below blog on this page or you can pick the tickets up at any cash register at any Dayton or Cincinnati, Ohio area Kroger grocery store, like what Tony and I might do this year.  (Tony and I bought our tickets at the south Cold Spring Kroger store last year for the 2009 festival day, incidentally and it saved us some money back then, by the way.)


Also on a money note, they use to charge $2 --  cash only for the parking.  I checked the web page below lately and I noticed that they aren't saying anything about the $2 parking fee here, folks, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they have quit charging it.  So, just make sure that if you are driving separately from Tony and myself that you come up with the $2 that it takes to park in American dollars, or you might not be able to park on October 16.


Since I am on the subject of money, folks, not that I'm trying to cheat the folks at the festival out of some money, but I reccommend packing yourself a lunch and eating it out in your car, because you can get your hand stamped, go out to your vehicle and eat your meal at your vehicle to save yourself some bread, (and I'm talking money!!)  The reason why I am telling you this afore mentioned information now, is because the food and drinks, (even the alchol, for those of you who are 21 years old or older and can buy alchol here in the States) is rather pricey in nature, [in other words, something in the way of either food or drink that would normally cost you like $5 at the local Kroger would probably cost you like $10 at the festival, no lie.]  Although if you want to try out the food, just be prepared to pay through the nose for it, although those turkey legs are really good and huge to boot as well.  The mead (an "Adult beverage") is really good there at the festival, even though it is expensive there as well.


Any way, folks  --  I am going to have some more information on the festival soon here for all of you, but I just wanted to share this information with you tonight!!  I will be talking to you later!!  :)

Another 2010 Ohio Renaissance Festival Plug

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I have another Ohio Renaissance Festival 2010 plug for you tonight that I wanted to post here.  This is a very short video tonight, so happy viewing!

Ohio Renaissance Festival Mud Show From 2009

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I saw this below video and I just thought that I would share it with all of you today.  This below video is from the 2009 season of the Ohio Renaissance Festival's mud show.  The mud show is hysterical and very muddy, (because the preformers involve the audience with the mud!!)

I hope that you enjoy this below video, folks!  Oh, and don't forget that I offically inviting you to meet me at the festival this year, (2010) by sending me a message either here or in you tube to give me your real name and your real e-mail address, so I can invite you to join me this year on October 16, 2010!!  I hope to see you there this year!

Ohio Renaissance Festival 2010 Information & An Invitation

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I have a video below that I wanted to share with all of you that involves the Ohio Renaissance Festival for the 2010 season here.  This below information that is contained in the video is about you potentially getting to "Meet Tony and myself" here this year, (if you wish to do so!!)

In the below video, I show the web page for the actual Harveysburg, Ohio festival here.  There are couple of characters that talk in the video from where I pull up the web page for the festival in the video, so fair warning, if you see and hear other people talking, that's what is going on in this video here.

As for the actual web page itself, the Ohio Renaissance Festival's actual web page is http://www.renfestival.com/.  I can tell you that if you want to save some money on your tickets, I would reccommend either buying your tickets from the web page itself or visiting any Cincinnati, (Ohio) or Northern Kentucky Krogers to buy the tickets, because you can pick the tickets up from either location.  Fair warning though, folks, if you buy your tickets from the above web page, you'll possibly need a printer, because you'll have to print the tickets out after you buy them, (if you don't do the "Will call" thing), because the festival will not paper mail them to you any more, (for some strange reason.)

As I mention in this video, as I did above here, if you would actually like to meet Tony and myself at the Ohio Renaissance Festival this year and you want me to actually invite you this year, here is what you need to do  --  leave me a message here with your real name and your real e-mail address and I'll send you an evite with all of the particulars (including the Baptist church's address that is actually next door to the festival), once it gets closer to time.  I am planning on sending out the evite on or around the middle of August here to everybody, just as a fair warning.

So, without further adieu, here is the video, folks!  Oh, and by the way  --  keep an eye out for more updates in relation to the 2010 festival date mentioned in the video below!!  :)

New Ohio Renaissance Festival Videos Tonight!

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I realize that it's actually been a while since I have actually put a blog in here about the Ohio Renaissance Festival, but seeing that I now have a couple of new videos that I shot earlier today that pertain to the Ohio Renaissance Festival, I just thought that I would share them with all of you tonight.  These videos are an update of some previous videos that I shot, (back in 2009) about this year's event, (2010) that I wanted to share with all of you here.

I hope that all of you enjoy watching these below videos of the Ohio Renaissance Festival!  Maybe I will see you there this October at some point that day!!  :)

An Invitation, A Story & Other Information.

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I wanted to post this blog here today, because I wanted to share the below video montage with you, due to the nature of the information that these below videos contain in this video montage.  I talk about this year's festival, (2009) and I also talk about next year's festival, (2010.)

I also offer an opportunity to all of you out there today to do something with me in person in 2010  --  show up at the Ohio Renaissance Festival, along with a bunch of your friends.  I talk about me planning an event through evite.com, a party web site, where I am going to get a group of folks together (of at least 15 people) and go to the festival next year --  in 2010!  I hope that you provide me with your real name and e-mail address, if you are 100% serious about going up there and me actually inviting you to join me at the Ohio Renaissance Festival in October 2010.

Any way, folks  --  without further adieu, here is that video montage that I mentioned above!  If you are interested in doing what I just described above and joining me in October 2010, just follow the directions that I provide in the below video montage and I will take it from there.  Happy viewing, folks!!

The Mud Show Photos From 2009's Ohio Renaissance Festival

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I know that I was going to post the mud show's photos here as soon as I got them developed.  Well, I have gotten the photos developed here and I have officially uploaded them to shutterfly.com.  Now, I have them ready to show you all now.  So, below is the photo display of the mud show's photos for your viewing pleasure.  There is also below that photo montage a link to a web page that shows what all of the photos from the 2009 Ohio Renaissance Festival looks like as well.  I hope that you enjoy looking at all of the photos and everything here, folks!!

Ohio Renaissance Festival 2009 Report

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I am sorry that it took me a little more than a month to actually write about the "Trip" that Tony and I took to the Ohio Renaissance Festival up there in Harveysburg, Ohio on October 10, 2009.  Tony and I had a fun time up there at the festival this year.  I just have been so backed up between working some crazy hours at work, being sick and a whole lot of other stuff, so again, I am sorry that it took me so long to get this blog posted.  Below is the particulars and the slide show on my trip to the Ohio Renaissance Festival on October 10, 2009 with my husband, Tony and our friends.


I think that I am finally getting an old wish of mine finally coming true  --  I am finally getting a group of people to go to the Ohio Renaissance Festival with me each year now.  While I was at the festival with my husband and some friends back on October 10, 2009; we got to talking about making this a "Yearly thing" that we all get together and do on the weekend of Columbus Day.  (Which Columbus Day was that Monday, October 12, 2009.)


I really wanted to give my review of this year's Ohio Renaissance Festival here, so here it is, officially for all of you today.  After you read my review, below that (as I mentioned previously above), I will have a slide show of the photos that I took while there at the festival as well.


For starters, I want to say that I had a really fun time watching the "Theatre in the Ground," a.k.a. the "Mud Show," although I did end up with a damp hiney from the wet bench that I ended up sitting on during the show, but it was still a good show.  Now, I don't have the actual photos from the "Mud Show," because I used two, (2) disposable cameras to take the photos, (because they actually throw the mud at people, just like Gallagher busts watermelon at his shows here.)  I haven't gotten around to getting those photos printed, but I garantee you that as quick as I do get those photos printed and back to me here in the near future, I will be posting another blog here with those photos of the mud show for your viewing pleasure.


The mud show that Tony and I watched that day was called Beowolf and it was hysterical.  The other show that the three (3) guys at the mud show put on is called Dante's Inferno, which is also good, but not nearly as strange and funny as their take on Beowolf.


As I was watching the mud show version of Beowolf, I was reminded of how back on September 17, 2005; "Chunky," (the guy who plays the narrator in both afore named shows) was doing his opening monolog and Chunky said:  "Oh  --  Kentuckians!!"


My response that day to Chunky's comment about Kentuckians was a very loud and happy "Whoo hoo!!"


Now, see, back on September 17, 2009; Tony and I were both wearing matching "Just married" t-shirts.  When Chucky looked at Tony and I and Chunky noticed what was printed on our shirts, Chunky said:  "If you're Kentuckians and you're just married, that means that you're on your honeymoon!!  You two can stand up, so everybody can give you a round of applause!!"


Of course, Tony and I stood up and everybody in the audience back on September 17, 2005 gave us a round of applause.  I still think that was really cool that Chunky did that for us back in September 2005.


Now, I digress back to October 10, 2009 and the trip that Tony and I made to the Ohio Renaissance Festival that day.  The next thing that Tony and I did after the show was to meet Tony's best buddy, Dave near the gate, along with Dave's younger brother, Danny and Danny's girlfriend, Emily.  Tony and Dave were basically playing "Marco Polo," sans the swimming pool, because Dave was having a little trouble finding Tony and myself; then Danny and Emily as well.


When Tony and I hooked up with Dave, Danny and Emily, we really started having fun then.  We all went to the "Washing Wenches" show near the main gate, which is hysterical as well.  One of the ladies threw a sock at Tony and the lady hit Tony with her sock.  I kept trying to get Tony involved with the show, but he would not get involved.  I was of the opinion (and I still am with him here) that a little public embarassment is good for him, especially when it's all done up in fun, mind you.


When the show ended, I was getting hungry, considering that it was about 12 noon at that time, and Tony and I hadn't eaten anything since like 9 am that morning.  One nice thing about the Ohio Renaissance Festival is that if you get your hand stamped, you can go out to your vehicle, get yourself some food and drink, (if you brought it up there with you, of course) and sit out in your vehicle and eat it, with no trouble.  Of course, you are not allowed to bring any outside food or drink with you, 'cause that's just the "House rules" there.  I don't really care about the "No outside food or drink in the festival rule," because I mainly take my own food and drink up there for even when Tony and I are on the drive home, due to us getting really stinking thirsty on the way home as well.  (As a side note, Tony and I have started packing a cooler that is filled with bottles of water and food, because the food and drink at the festival is somewhat on the expensive side here, mind you  --  like King's Island food expensive, mind you!!)


When Tony and I finished eating our lunch with Dave, the three of us walked back in to the festival to watch some more shows and to sit in the "Sky Chairs."  I highly recommend the "Sky Chairs," because they are very comfortable, even Tony enjoys them and Tony can sit in them without them breaking or Tony exceeding the "Maximum weight limit" on them as well.  Tony and I have said that once we move to where we have an actual place to hang some "Sky Chairs," that we will finally get some of our own.


When Tony, Dave and I finished sitting in the sky chairs, we went to see the live action, no holds barred joust.  One thing that I want to share that I think is some really good kudos to the Ohio Renaissance Festival is that the actual horses used at the festival is horses that have been "Rescued" from abuse and neglect.  I think that this is a good thing that the Ohio Renaissance Festival does for these horses.  The announcer at the joust, (who used a p.a. system) actually announced this fact about the horses being rescued animals at the end of the show, which I also wanted to share with all of you as well.


Tony, Dave and I had parted ways with Danny and Emily, because Danny and Emily wanted to get home, since it was Danny's birthday and Danny wanted to spend time with Emily, (being that Emily is Danny's girlfriend and everything.)  Tony, Dave and I had a really good time watching the joust as well.


When the joust ended, both Tony and Dave needed to go to the bathroom.  Now, as far as the bathroom situation goes at the festival, this is my only complaint against them there at the festival  --  they use port-o-potties in trailers.  One good thing is though is that they do provide some soap, water and paper towels for people to use, but I still take some anti-bacterial hand gel, just to be 100% safe, in light of the H1N1 outbreak in the area and just to help Tony and I not catch any serious illnesses here, while we are at the festival.


While Tony and Dave were using the port-o-potties, I sat by the maze, which is near the jousting field and the church, called "Saint Peter's church."  People can actually get married and have their receptions there at the festival, (I almost got married to Tony there, but he and I did renew our wedding vows there in that church back in 2007 though, in a mass renewal of vows ceremony at the festival that year.)  As I was waiting, I did take some photos of like the church and other things around there, near the church and the maze.


When I hooked back up with Tony and Dave, we went to see the "Human Battle Chess" match, which was taking place nearby on the "Downs."  There at the chess match, Tony, Dave and I saw the new lady playing Queen Elizabeth I, along with a new guy playing William Shakespeare.


I have to stop and say right now that there has not been a William Shakespeare impersonator at the festival since 1996, because the original guy passed away back in 1996.  (I have to also mention now that I have been going to the Ohio Renaissance Festival with the execption of 2 years here since 1995, so that's how I know this information here about William Shakespeare.)


After the chess match ended, Tony, Dave and I left the festival and went home.  Tony, Dave and I had a really good time.  Now, before I send you all to watch my long slide show here, I want to re-iterate something that I have said in a previous blog here on this Ohio Renaissance Festival blog chain  --  if any of you want to join Tony and I next year, (in 2010!) to go to the festival, please let me know and we will be happy to have you join us next Columbus Day weekend!!


Now here is the slideshow of the photos that I do have ready for all of you.  Please note, these photos belong to me, so do not claim them as your own, these photos are copyrighted to me, thanks in advance!!

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Here's something that reminds me of Tony.

Roy Orbison : California Blue

Here's a good song here by Roy Orbison -- "California Blue."

Wishing Elvis a Happy Birthday!

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Yeah, I KNOW that it isn't Elvis' birthday right now, but I just thought that I would share this video with you now any way. I've been looking for this video for a while now, 'cause I haven't seen it in a few months. :) I'm just happy to see this video here, so I can share it with all of you.

Useful Information Sheet

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Below is a fact sheet about the Ohio Renaissance Festival that I just thought that I would share with all of you tonight. I got this fact sheet off of the Ohio Renaissance Festival's page, http://www.renfestival.com/ . This fact sheet has all of the particulars about the festival itself and makes me excited when I think about going up there on September 26. (Incidentally, Tony and I have decided to push back our going up to the festival from September 19 to September 26, because we have a birthday that we must celebrate or the person who is having the birthday the week ended September 19 is going to be ticked at us.)

Ohio’s Premier Family Event – Celebrating 20 Years of Cheers!

2009 Event Fact Sheet

Dates: September 5 – October 25, 2009 – 8 Weekends – Saturdays, Sundays & Labor Day

Hours: 10:30am – 6:00pm

Tickets: Adults $19.99; Children $9.99 (ages 5-12); Children under 5 FREE. The best discounts are online at www.renfestival.com.

Group Sales: The more the merrier! Group discounts are available for groups of 15 or more. Call (513) 897-7000 ext. 244 for details or visit www.renfestival.com.
Parking: Parking is only $2! Also, special reserved parking for persons with special needs.

Where: Renaissance Park ~ Harveysburg, Ohio - Conveniently located near Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus just minutes off I-71 or I-75 on State Route 73 in Warren County.

Theme: This 30-acre permanent village has been authentically and historically re-created in the flavor of 16th Century England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Entertainment: Visitors will see a full day of entertainment including full-armored Jousting the way it was done over 400 years ago by real Knights in shining armor. Queen Elizabeth I and her Royal Court preside over the festivities as dozens of Renaissance musicians, dancers, comedians, jugglers, sword-fighters, storytellers and hundreds of costumed performers entertain patrons of all ages on 12 stages in nearly 100 shows per day.

Arts & Crafts: More than 135 crafts merchants display in this unique Medieval Marketplace. Master artisans demonstrate their timeless arts of glassblowing, jewelry making, blacksmithing, stone carving, leather crafting, weaving and more.

Food & Drink: Giant Turkey Leggs, Steak-On-A-Stake, Stuffed Spuds, Bread Bowl Stews, Hearty Ales, Flavorful Wines, Delectable Desserts and Vegetarian selections offer even the most discriminating taste buds a true Taste of the Renaissance.

Must See: * The Swordsmen – 2 itinerant gentlemen with sharp swords, quick reflexes and even quicker wits for an entertaining balance of comedy and the manly art of swordfighting.

* Knights of Valour, real knights in shining armor, do battle in 3 Jousting Tournaments each Festival day.

* Theatre In The Ground (aka The Mudde Show) presents literary classics with a comedic twist performed in Ohio’s only Muditorium, where comedy meets Earth.

Test your skills in the gaming area or climb the 25’ Castle Tower, then visit the
Tower of London Dungeon of Doom. Eat, drink, shop, enjoy the shows,
ride human-powered rides, and visit with Royalty at the 2009 Ohio Renaissance Festival.

Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (Elvis tribute - video)

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Here's an "Elvis tribute" that I thought would go good here. I know that this is isn't exactly "High quality" in the video department, but it's still an excellent song.

Elvis Presley - Amazing Grace

Hello Again, Folks:

Here's another good Elvis Presley song, but it's a gospel song this time. I hope that you all stay safe this weekend! :)

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Ohio Renaissance Festival Thoughts For 2009.

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I just thought that I would share some "Useful information" with all of you tonight. I am still hoping to get some "Brave souls" to agree to follow Tony and I up to the Ohio Renaissance Festival this September. I still (as of today, June 28, 2009) haven't had any volunteers to join Tony and I in a "Caravan to the festival," as I had offered back on May 1, 2009 in the first blog on this part of the page. I totally realize that some folks might be reluctant on going up to the Ohio Renaissance Festival in Harveysburg, Ohio with Tony and myself, so I totally understand how folks probably won't be so willing to go up there with us to go to the Ohio Renaissance Festival.

Even so, I would like to at least offer up the festival's own web page here for you to take a look at it. Here is the page for the Ohio Renaissance Festival: http://renfestival.com/ . This page that I have here provides everything from driving directions to the festival from places, such as Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky; Columbus, Toledo, Dayton, Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio but from like Indianapolis, Indiana as well. If you were wanting to like google directions, the nearest "Real location/address" is the Southern Baptist church, which is the "Next door neighbor" to the actual, physical location of the festival itself. The Baptist church's actual "Physical address" is 10600 East State Route 73; Harveysburg, Ohio 45032. If you're still in doubt about the location, trust me, the driveway for the actual festival there in Harveysburg is literally one driveway down the street from the church. God only knows how many times that I've actually googled the church's address (and google shows the church's name, along with the address) and google says that the festival is like .0045 miles away from the church itself. (Translation: You could freaking ass walk to the festival's driveway from the church's driveway there in Harveysburg, folks!!)

To be perfectly honest, folks, the festival's actual lot is pretty much in the church's back yard, (you can see the actual festival grounds from the street and the festival is directly behind the church, mind you!!) Of course, there's like at least a football field length or more between the actual, gated part of the festival grounds and the end of the church's actual, physical property up there in Harveysburg, Ohio.

Speaking of that church there in Harveysburg, Ohio; folks, I also have something about that church to say as well. That Baptist church there in Harveysburg, Ohio once upon a time, (back in the early and mid 1980s) had a preacher there who over the course of the 1980s, 1990s and up until the fall of 2005 was at Southern Baptist church in this part of Northern Kentucky. This church in Harveysburg had the preacher leave from them and go to that Baptist church in Northern Kentucky.

What ended up happening to this preacher that was at the church in Harveysburg, Ohio and then some church here in Northern Kentucky? Well, let's just say that the preacher's activities eventually made the news, and not in a good way at all. What happened to this preacher is that well, let's just say that the man got caught with his hand in the financial cookie jar with the man's pants around his ankles; with the guy's "Little buddy" doing a salute to a woman who was not his wife. The ending of that story, folks, is a good one. The preacher was sent to jail, (but not for a long enough time by some people's standards around here, including myself) for embezzlement of at least $500,000 US. Most people around here in Northern Kentucky would assume (and probably correctly so) that this preacher (who I will not name here or the church that the guy stole from here) stole probably upwards of over $1.5 million US. Of course, the US government couldn't concretely prove that this preacher stole that $1.5 million US, but the government could prove that the preacher did steal the $500,000 US though, (through the help of bank records from a local bank here.)

To this very day, every time that I go to the Ohio Renaissance Festival and I drive past that church there in Harveysburg, Ohio in my little car; I wonder to myself sometimes: "Did that preacher that was once there as a pastor also possibly steal money from this church as well or did this church get really stinking lucky with that preacher not doing it here to them? You know, a taste for stealing church funds has to come from somewhere. I mean, you don't up and develop the taste for it one fine day -- it's like allowing wild bears to develop a taste for human food out in one of the western national parks -- once a taste for stealing from the church coffers is acquired, then it really sticks with somebody, especially a power hungry pig like that preacher man that got convicted of it back in 2005."

Like I just told my husband, Tony, if you were to tell me that no, the crooked preacher man did not steal church funds from that church up in Harveyburg, Ohio; then I probably won't be too, too shocked. On the other hand, if you were to tell me that yes, that stupid pig of a preacher did actually steal from this church up in Harveysburg, Ohio; then my question would then become: "Well, why didn't this church report it to the feds when all of the stuff was going down in relation to this preacher back in 2004 and 2005 in Northern Kentucky?? I think that if that was the case, then I think that the church there in Harveysburg, Ohio should come clean now and at least let the federal government know what had happened back in the mid to early 1980s at that church in relation to this preacher."

Any way, folks, enough about the criminal preacher (who only ended up spending like 24-36 months in jail -- no joke, that's how long he ended spending in jail in the end. The stupid pig plead out, because I think that the stupid idiot realized that the federal government had the man by "The short hairs," if you know what I mean, folks!!) I want to talk some more about the Ohio Renaissance Festival here. Now, as I was mentioning above, before I got side tracked, the web page also has a place where you can purchase tickets for the festival itself, right along with seeing the "Themed weekends."

Speaking of the "Themed weekends," folks, Tony and I are right now planning on going up to the Ohio Renaissance Festival on September 26, 2009. On the weekend of September 26 and 27, 2009; the theme of that weekend is the "Oktoberfest Weekend." When I say that Tony and I are going on "Ocktoberfest Weekend," I am meaning that this particular weekend will have the emphasis on the Germanic section of the festival.

On a related note, Tony and I (unintentionally, of course), ended up going to the Ohio Renaissance Festival on what was "Romance weekend" on September 17, 2005. Of course, the weekend of September 17, 2005 was the last weekend of our honeymoon, which was all too ironic on that count, (and wasn't deliberately planned that way on our parts, either!!) My favorite story from September 17, 2005 is that Tony and I were wearing our shirts that said "Just married" on them (that we had bought earlier in the week in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee on the main part of our honeymoon.) While we were sitting in the mud show, the one guy named "Chunky" went "Oh, Kentuckians" and I very loudly went "Woo hoo!!"

When "Chunky" saw what Tony and I were wearing, "Chunky" said: "You're Kentuckians, you were just married. . . . That means that you're on your honeymoon!!"

"Chunky" had Tony and I stand up and had everybody give us a round of applause at that point in the show. Amazingly enough, even tonight as I think about what happened back on September 17, 2005 at the mud show; it still makes me smile, (as it does Tony!!)

So in closing, even if you all don't actually do a "Caravan to the festival" with Tony and myself this year, I would at least like to invite all of you to meet Tony and myself there this year on September 26 to "Have a good time at the Ohio Renaissance Festival this year." I hope that Tony and I get to see you there at the festival up in Harveysburg, Ohio this year!!

Ohio Renaissance Festival 2008 Closing Gate

Hello All:

Here's another interesting video for you to watch today!! Oh, and please read the blog that I wrote below about THIS YEAR's Ohio Renaissance Festival on this page!! Happy viewing and happy reading, folks!!

Ohio Renaissance Festival 2008

Hello All:

Here's another interesting video from the Ohio Renaissance Festival for your viewing pleasure today.