Renaissance Faire

The first weekend in April was the start of the Renaissance Faire in California! The Faire here is the oldest, biggest and original Renaissance Faire and it was so much fun! I've always wanted to go to one, but it's just never worked out, and I was so happy when it did this year! We got a Groupon for a family pack so we took Uly's little brother and niece with us.

I couldn't resist taking a picture of these two kids.  There were so many adorably dressed children I kept flipping out over how cute they were. We're definitely dressing up next year!

Jake got chosen to go on stage for this funny show this guy did.  He was so excited to have been chosen!

Peek-a-boo!

Queen Elizabeth!! I may or may not have gotten all a-flutter whenever we saw her, haha!

Can anyone see who I found?!

The Queen, again!~


One of the sweet older ladies that was working the kid's area told me that they do a knighting ceremony for the kids after the Queen's tea time and to hurry up and sign the kids up, so we did and I am so, so, SO glad we did.  The ceremony was just adorable and I am nerdy woman enough to admit that I was teary eyed the whole time.  I just am such a nerd about that time period and I know how much it meant to the men who were able to become knights, so to see these little kids get to be knighted, even if it wasn't real, was so adorable.

Of course, Oliver totally stole the show.  After each kid got knighted the gentleman in red on the Queen's right would yell out "I present to you Sir so-and-so, huzzah!" to all of us would yell out "Huzzah!" Oliver figured out that after the guy yelled it, he got to yell it too, but he yelled it AFTER everyone else had, which cracked everyone up.  

Introducing Dame Yasmine!

Introducing Sir Jacob!

And finally, Sir Oliver! Isn't that smile so darn cute?!

Sir Oliver and his daddy

He loved that sand pit and was just brokenhearted when we made him leave.  We're so mean!!

The Queen eating dinner...I think the guy on her left is supposed to be Robert Dudley.  I'm not sure how historically accurate they were keeping their "roles". 

And, of course, what day wouldn't end perfectly without Oliver conning two girls working a jewelry booth out of a cookie? 


We had such a fun time and we're already planning our trip there next year! If anyone wants to come, start planning your costume now!