renaissance faires | The Crafty Nerd

I absolutely love renaissance faires. It’s so much fun to get dressed up in costume and pretend you’ve slipped back in time to the Renaissance days…

…just like Bryan and I did last weekend, at the Ohio Renaissance Festival! Despite me coming down with a cold, we still had lots of fun. We watched some stage swordfighting, perused the wares of many a shop, and got to enjoy my favorite part of any renaissance faire – jousting.

Yes, the Knights of Valour were there at the Ohio Renaissance Festival, including a couple of favorites from the TV show Full Metal Jousting. They do real, full-contact jousting – it’s really exciting to watch! (And a little frightening when someone gets violently unhorsed…)

While sitting at the joust, waiting for the queen to arrive, I happened to see a rather familiar pair of people in the stands…

Yes, even the Doctor and Amy Pond were in attendance at the joust!

I do love finding the Doctor at renaissance faires… at last year’s Ohio faire, I saw a Tenth Doctor wandering around outside the castle walls, waiting for the faire to open with the rest of the crowd. I also saw a fair amount of people wearing Doctor Who t-shirts, heheh.

If you’d like to see the rest of the photos I took at the faire, here’s a gallery of them all! I will say, my new camera did a very good job of taking good photos from a fair distance. I think this was a good investment for my blogging, that’s for sure.