Hello All:
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!!
