Ohio Renaissance Festival 2010 Photos

Hello All:


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!!  :)