Best Date EVER!

Cari set everything up and made plans for us to have a date.  A day with no children.  A day away from the house.  What to do?  What to do?  

The day before our date we made our plans and decided to head to the Carolina Renaissance Festival near Concord, NC.  

If you don't feel like reading the rest of this blog, I'll go ahead and tell you it was the best date ever.  We spent the whole day at the festival then ended our day out with a steak dinner.  

For anyone still reading this, the Renaissance Festival was SO much fun.  We're already talking about taking the kids there next year.  This year we got to experience it without the constant begging for random merchandise and complaining of starvation every time the pretzel vendor walks past.

Everything you might expect can be found at the festival.  Stages spread across the grounds featured belly dancers, a sword swallower, juggling, comedy story telling, and yes, a joust to the DEATH!

As you walk the paths through the festival, shops line both sides.  People walk around in full costume interacting with everyone, small groups play music with a hat at their feet, and carnival games like throwing axes and climbing a rock wall are mixed in as well.  

Some of our favorite acts were, Barely Balanced (acrobats and juggling), Thom Selectomy - Comedy & Sword Swallowing, Zilch the Torysteller - Tairy Fales, The Ded Bob Sho - funny puppet!, and Vegetable Justice - throw a tomato at the guy taunting you from the wall.   

It's easy to let the routines of your life swallow up your time if you allow it.  It's important to have a break once in a while and fully enjoy the day.  That's the kind of day I just had with my best friend.  My wife.  Cari.