Scarborough Renaissance Festival
May. 18th, 2010 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rickvsWent to the Scarborough Faire on Sunday, and had a good time, although we nearly melted. I was pushing Rachal in a manual wheelchair, while Pat rented an electric one, and we covered a bit more than half of the grounds, I think, before we pooped out.
Scarborough's jousting show provides an interesting contrast to the dinner show at Medieval Times -- the Scarborough knights were working outside in the sun, first of all, which impressed me more so far as stamina goes. The Scarborough show also made a conscious effort to entertain fans of pro wrestling, including one guy making a "top-turnbuckle" dive from a standing position on his mount's back.
I also briefly saw Zilch the Tory-Steller ....this is a dude whose speech is littered with Spoonerisms, and figuring out which fairy tale he was rattling off on the air last month is how I wound up with Scarborough tickets in the first place. I didn't stick around for his whole act, but had to snicker at the snippet I did catch: "...and that's how I lost my job at Fuddruckers."
Scarborough's jousting show provides an interesting contrast to the dinner show at Medieval Times -- the Scarborough knights were working outside in the sun, first of all, which impressed me more so far as stamina goes. The Scarborough show also made a conscious effort to entertain fans of pro wrestling, including one guy making a "top-turnbuckle" dive from a standing position on his mount's back.
I also briefly saw Zilch the Tory-Steller ....this is a dude whose speech is littered with Spoonerisms, and figuring out which fairy tale he was rattling off on the air last month is how I wound up with Scarborough tickets in the first place. I didn't stick around for his whole act, but had to snicker at the snippet I did catch: "...and that's how I lost my job at Fuddruckers."
