Our second night was drier. We woke up fairly refreshed and ready to pack up the car. This was the tricky part...pack the car, but leave garb accessible...we managed, barely. The day started overcast. Once we had entered into the gate = downpour of rain. We ducked into several nearby shops in the attempt to stay dry for the next 30 minutes. Luckily, the rest of the day was overcast, sunny, and fine.
Being nerds, we all have different costumes for the second day. Tam's tabard is from a previous year; all I had to do was make a new undershirt. Jude could fit Tam's old undershirt, but needed the tabard. These are based on a bought Simplicity pattern...but I totally reused the dragon on Jude's from an old Gap shirt that he had outgrown. Two little musketeers...a bit late for this period of festival, but still uber cute.
We danced the maypole dance again today at Tam's insistence. This time, I grabbed the snapshot and let Brian dance around with Jude. Tam still only barely grasped the concept of the weaving... he kept trying to climb over the ribbons of the other dancers, rather than letting them pass under his outstretched arm.
We caught the pirates' comedy show (their stunt show had a flooded stage).
I laughed quite a bit at their version of charades... the poor audience chump had to guess Oden dumpster diving on mars with chicken gravy. He had not a chance, but they tried hard to portray it...complete with martian sounds similar to the ones from the movie Mars Attacks :-)
They also posed as life-size works of art...interesting.
Tamlin and Jude both had fans to cool them off in the heat. Tamlin mastered his by the second day, which was a bit warmer at times.
We watched a knife throwing show where one of the duo ducked into a bag and "disappeared" while the other person launched knives at him. Tamlin thought this was truly magical how he disappeared from the stage and appeared next to him at the back of the audience.
We watched one man swallow fire. The boys wondered why he didn't burn up.
I kept having to remind him not to try these awesome stunts at home...though the one juggler balanced Tam's sword on his thumb and flipped his fan around. Tam kept trying to do this throughout both days at the festival.
I love these shots of Jude...
"Why is the rum all gone?"
The ride choice for this day was the pirate swing. Both boys opted to go on and loved it. Big grins from both of them...which isn't surprising because both of them like to swig at playgrounds too. The worker did a great job of keeping them entertained too with cool stunts and silly jokes.
They even got to have a little duel with foam swords. This was uber cute 'cause they just didn't know what to do... and kept missing each other (like in a cartoon).
We did manage to get a family shot where all of us are looking at the camera at the same time. I'll take three out of four of us smiling. Such a fun-loving gang.
And Jude fell asleep again...granted, this time we were sitting at a kids' version of a robin hood show and he stretched out on daddy. Ignore his not quite authentic pink shoes :-) This zonking happened around 1:00 so we trucked out to the car and let Jude sleep in the carseat while the rest of us rested and ate a picnic. This allowed us to stay all the way to the end of the festival before heading off to home. I did very good and did not buy the oh-so-wonderful leather and suede bodice that fit me oh-so-wonderfully...sigh...if only we were still singing at festivals and could justify the expense...maybe in the future.
We all enjoyed the festival and I would certainly come to this one again...maybe alternating it with the Michigan festival (which has a bigger kiddie area). It was great to see different actors and artisans, but I wish to have seen more cast / street characters to interact with. Perhaps the rain kept some folk away.
Well, the costumes are all washed and nearly all put away until next year :-)
Yeah! Kiddo involvement! (And adult beverages to help). 
