Today we joined some friends at the Michigan Renaissance Festival. It's definitely an interesting crowd that you meet at a renaissance festival. It had been raining most of the day, so we also met quite a bit of mud. Why the the Ren. Fest.? Well the boys are all about knights and battles, they both recently filled up their good behavior charts so this made a good reward, and we were celebrating the rite of passage of Elliot starting kindergarten next Wednesday. The jousting was the most anticipated attraction. The kids ended up being most interested in the various games and the cheap plastic golden coins that you got as a reward for the games you paid to play.

Here is a bit of jousting footage: