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June 6, 2005
A Faire a Week, that's all we ask.
Dawnise and I haven't really considered ourselves "faire geeks" for years - not since the group of irregulars we used to hang out with at Southern gave in to entropy a bunch of years back.
So I was surprised at how much fun I had just hanging out at the Port Gamble Medieval Festival on Sunday. It was an SCA event masquerading as a faire - it was probably about the same size as Corona faire in So Cal, with a similar number of vendors, and more in the way of SCA-ish demo encampments. Weather was English (cool, damp, occasionally downright wet), but that didn't put a damper (sorry) on the attendees.
We bought some random stuff - a couple cloak pins, a belaying pin for my evolving pirate garb, and Dawnise got some hair jewelry.
Next weekend we're planning to head to the Port Angeles Renaissance Festival, and the weekend after that we'll head back to Port Angeles for Pirates of Port Angeles. In early August we'll probably head down to Gig Harbor and check out the Washington Renaissance Fantasy Faire.
I suspect we'll find a faire in July, too.
We briefly considered heading over to the Northwest Renaissance Festival near Spokane, but a 6 hour drive seems a bit crazy.
I'm on the lookout for some good boots - having worn the same pair of Minnetonka moccasins for the last 15 (!) faire seasons. I've long lusted after a pair of Bald Mountains, but the price tag (they're up to almost $700 as of our visit to Georgia faire with my parents) has always seemed a bit excessive (or out of reach, as was the case when we were into faire enough to seriously contemplate them). I saw Son of Sandlar at Georgia Faire, and they make nice stuff, very comfy, but still nearly $400.
In case my mother-the-fair-nut is listening/reading - of course we can make the guest room available :) (That goes for most of the other folks who'd be reading this as well - just let us know in advance...)
Posted by dberger at June 6, 2005 8:25 AM
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http://www.camlann.org/summer_faire.htm and it is near Seattle too :)
Posted by: Nise at June 7, 2005 9:37 PM