This year, my husband and I are going to be going to the Ohio Renaissance Festival, which is located just inside of Harveysburg, Ohio. I know that I have personally been trying for years, years to get people (at least like 25-30 people) to agree to do a "Group thing" with me (and my husband, of course) to go up to to the Ohio Renaissance Festival each year. I know that Tony (my husband) and I would truly love for people to go up there and join us and I really would hope people would go up there with us, not just to humor me for once, so I could actually say that I managed to get a whole honking group of people to go up there with me (so we could do a "Group discount thing"), but to see what would happen if a whole bunch of people just showed up at the Ohio Renaissance Festival with Tony and myself one year.
I know that Tony and I (or at least me, any way) try to get up to the Ohio Renaissance Festival to park then walk up to the main gate by no later than like 9:45 am on whatever Saturday or Sunday morning Tony and I decide that we're going to show up to the festival. The reason why we like to get up to the gate so early is because there is usually a "Pre-festival opening show" each weekend right at 10 am that I enjoy seeing for myself each year.
What I would really enjoy is to get like a caravan of people to go up to the festival with Tony and myself (with like vans filled with people) to go up there with us this year to the Ohio Renaissance Festival. There is a couple of caveats that go with this trip up there to the festival and I just only have a couple of complaints against a couple of them any way. There is a $2 parking fee that is cash only at the main vehicle entry that every vehicle must pay in order to get in to the lot for the festival in the first place. This parking fee is cash only, (which sucks, if you don't have like $2 to pay to park when you get there initially!!) As for the rest of the festival itself (once you get inside), all of the stuff is also cash only (for the most part) but there's a couple of always loaded, almost always busy ATMs hanging out in a couple of different spots, one by the entry way to the festival and one in the back, somewhere near the mud show's entrance in the very back corner of the festival's 10 acre lot.
Speaking of that lot that the festival is in, folks, here is the 2 problems that I have with that festival. One problem that I have is that the lot itself is very dusty, which in dry conditions can be mildly annoying, but when it rains, that lot at the festival turns in to a mud pit, (because there is not a "Paved walk way" of any sort there, but like wooden bridges, planks, etc.) I just don't especially care for the whole "Muddying up the car when I get back to it from the festival" after it had rained the day of the festival or the day before I went up there to the festival.
The other problem that I have with the festival itself is the whole "Port-o-potty" situation there at the festival. I realize that the festival is only open for basically two whole months on the weekends every year, but for heaven's sake, people -- those port-0-potties are nasty. I usually make darn sure that Tony and I carry anti-bacterial hand jell with us when we go up to the festival each year, just to make sure that our hands are clean (and our wrists as well.) I'm just glad that I don't go up there in costume or I'd be royally screwed (no pun intended) on the bathrooms, because the way that those dresses back in the 1300s were big ass monstrosities.
An example of these big ass dresses from back in the day is in my default picture. The lady in the default photo with me (I'm the one on the right in the green shirt with the mud on it) is the lady who played Queen Elizabeth I for just one year (in 2007.) That lady in the photo portraying Queen Elizabeth I in that photo is the third out of four ladies to play Queen Elizabeth I that I am aware of at the present time at the Ohio Renaissance Festival. (Another lady apparently played Queen Elizabeth I last year -- 2008 -- when Tony and I didn't go up there to the festival last year, because we wanted to do something different.)
Any way, folks, I am starting to get sleepy now, considering that according to the clock on this computer that I am at that it is currently 3:09 am. I will be adding more commentary to this blog (in a possible related blog) for all of you here. Before I forget though, folks -- if you wish to go up to the Ohio Renaissance Festival in Harveysburg, Ohio, Tony and I are planning on going up to the Ohio Renaissance Festival on September 19, 2009; (which is a Saturday, incidentally.) If you would like to join Tony and myself at the festival on September 19, please leave a comment here with this blog, (along with your e-mail address) and I will e-mail you the particulars through evite.com with all of the information that I have at the present time as well.
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