I went to a medieval faire yesterday!!!

told me about it Saturday night at midnight, so I decided to wake up early to make the two hour drive to Gainesville, haha. I also sort of dressed up for it... I took one of my sister's old dresses and put an old velvet Halloween sweater on, along with my blonde wig. I think it looked sort of Renaissance-ish.

We watched some jousting and sword fighting and looked in all of the shops, and also played a few games like ninja star throwing (I won a necklace for hitting the target!) and archery. Well... I did archery, anyway. I accidently shot one of the knights in the head. Good thing he was wearing a helmet.

While we were shopping, a lady suddenly walked up to Nater and handed her a card, saying "You're in danger!!! Seek aid!" The card told us to go to "The Mystic Magic Tent" which we searched for for almost an hour before we finally found it. It turns out we were now part of some game in which Nater had been falsely accused of being a jewel thief and now had assasins after her. I got to be her knight ( ) and they gave us both little felt things to put on our backs marking us as victim and knight. (Nater's looked like a lemon. [link] Mine was more like a giant blue teardrop, lol. [link])

The guy explaining this to us told us we had the option of trying to find the actual jewel by following clues around the fairground, or trying to find an assasin with a dagger crest on his back at which point we had to steal his felt crest before he stole Nater's. If Nater took it, we would return to the tent and be set free. If I took it, though, then upon returning to the tent I'd have to swordfight with the assasin as Nater's champion.

We ended up finding an assasin after a while of being paranoid and walking around looking for clues. We ambushed the guy in a not-so-subtle fashion (LOL) and tried to take the crest off his back. The guy started shouting "MEXICAN STANDOFF!!" but we had no idea what that meant and I got the crest. He told us that saying Mexican standoff meant that the knight had to stand down, but we were like "WTF, no one told us that." So we went back to the tent where the instructor guy admitted that he forgot to tell us about that rule, which meant that I had to fight the assasin. If I won, Liss and I got to go free, but if he won, we "died."


I have videos of it!! Watch in high quality for added lulz. They're both pretty short. Part 1: [link] Part 2: [link] I should have gotten bonus points just for having to fight in a dress! If you watch, it made me have to hop around like a bunny to parry.

The way it worked was that we had to pin pieces of red cloth to the arm we fought with (our right arms) and the hip and leg at the knee of the same side. We had to hit each other's target with the tip of our sword, and they would stick to the sword. I thought the guy was going to let me win, or at least go easy on me. But he didn't, lol. Within the first 10 seconds of the fight, he already got two of my flags, HAHAHAHAHA. You can see my shock in the first video along with my "" face.

SO THEN I GOT SERIOUS.

I fought while guarding my last flag, despite the guy and his fancy fencing moves. Twice we had to stop fighting because once I tripped over an electrical cord and he got my flag while I was trying to get my balance, which didn't count, and also when he hit the flag with the side of his sword and sort of scraped it off, but that didn't count either.

Somehow I managed to win. The guy was kind of mad, lol! I got a card that he had to sign saying I was the victor. It was awesome. XDDDDD

The rest of the faire was really fun. They had elephants that you could ride, but I ran out of money to do it. We stayed for pretty much the whole day, and then stopped at almost every McDonalds on our ride back to Jacksonville because I had a gift card.

Where have medieval fairs been all my life????