Renaissance Festival Student Day – Part 1

There was great excitement around the house Monday as my two theater geeks eagerly prepared for their field trip to the Renaissance Festival.  Costume is a very big deal, and many details had to be perfected.

Tuesday morning dawned bright and early, and there was much bustling and parading and be-spangling and making up of faces and braiding of hair — I even succumbed to the merriment of it all and gypsied myself up a little with some dangly earrings, a swooshy skirt, white blouse, belt, and sparkly scarf on my head — and finally we were ready to depart at 5 minutes to 8.

The drive to the east valley was interrrrrrrrrminable (it always in, when you’re “on the way”, isn’t it?) but traffic was a piece of cake going out of town.  The pics begin below, with a couple of shots of the mist on the mountains as we traveled, and then our first impressions at the festival as we waited around at the gate for the rest of the crew to arrive. 

(Click the first – or any – picture to get into the gallery and see them bigger.)