Ren Faires

[aichambaye at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., aichambaye at y... wrote:
> > Does anyone here go to Ren Faires?
> 
> For years I enthusiastically attended Southern California Faire 
> several times each summer (as a customer aka 'turkey') and once 
> travelled up to Northern Faire, and I have a ton of clothes from 
The 
> Dye Spot 

I love them!

and showier clothiers and lots of accessories, and I've 
> dressed several of my friends so we can go as a group, and one of 
my 
> missions in life is to induce Regina to buy herself a decent sword. 
> She always goes thru this pattern in which she REFUSES to spend 
> enough money for a good sword and REFUSES even harder to let anyone 
> else give it to her as a gift, so she buys some cheap piece of crap 
> intended for hanging on some Muggle's wall, and then she's too 
> ashamed to be seen in public with the crap sword and accidentally 
on 
> purpose loses it....
> 

OK. Talk to a vender... have them sell her a really nice one at a 
proce she can afford, and make up the difference to them under the 
table!


> but I missed going to Faire even once last summer and I expect that 
I 
> won't go this summer (last weekend, April 28-9, was Opening 
Weekend) 
> because, ever since my chiropractor got married and moved to Marin 
> county, my back has been hurting so much that the *thought* of 
> walking around all day makes me cry....
> 

that's AWFUL! (The pain, I mean. Missing faire is just too bad).

> Why do you ask?

Because I go, and love it, and what I have been doing for three days 
is making new garb. Just wondered if my obsession was shared here! 

Heather M.