My Trip to Renaissance Festival

At last i got something to update my blog after a long time. The reason for not updating was I was little busy with office work (some project deliveries) and other I hadn't been to any place which I can share with you all.
Well this time I been to Renaissance Festival, a cultural festival where over 80 stage and street performances by more than 200 professional actors and stage artist who recreate the look and feel of an English Renaissance Village in the year 1585.The Sterling Reniassance festival is delighting the people since 1977 and this year was the 30th Anniversary. It was the beginning of Summer splash !!

This was my first trip going out with An american family. We all (India team) were accompanied by our Onsite Manager (Jason Middaugh), along with his wife (Tina Middaugh) and one of our senior employee (Kay Dorrance). We reached the festival place which is just 1 hour drive from Syracuse. The way we reached we could feel the ambience taking us to old time. Even the ticket counters and the support staff wore costumes belonging to that era. Even there was a facility where we can hire a costume of that era and move around like that. We thought we are comfortable in what we are ;). The first show was 16th century warhorse tournament, where people called as knights show thier valor by fighitng with swords and joust. A live and full armoured sword play tournament was organized, it was thrilling excitement watching the horses which are so strong and hefty, haven't seen such horses before in my life. Wow ! watched a live show where people on horses fight with swords and try to destroy the opponents. The horses running, fight with the swords and shield and the most important was the play where each player carries a long spear and come in opposite direction on thier horses.This was exciting as we normally watch these stunts in hollywood epic movies oonly. Four Knightss were representing each side surrounded by audience and people cheer thier favorite kinght . In the last, the knights represented from our side won the tournament. HIP HIP HURRAY ! We all took snaps with the knights and the horses.
Next was the comic show called Mud Beggar's Show. These muddy beggars perform thier hillarious and classic comis from within the depth of town mud pits. Everyone cheered for them and it was another true performance by the stage actors. Now its time for Snacks and people are really crazy for food. We can find lot of varieties of food but to my unfortunate they are all non-vegetarian :( . Peopl were frenzy about Turkey Leg and Pork fodd.. ahhhha ! I hate to talk about it , anywaysy for me I had some cheeze pizza to keep my stomach calm.
The next show is called as Theater of Fools - Wacky comedy and magic show.Enjoyed the show as it was interactive with the audiences. People were asked to come on dias and help the actors perform thier show. The best part what I liked here is that audience/people never hestitate to participate and when they do they give 100% committment to it. This is something which we can learn from them. This goes in my learning things list ;)
Then there was another spanis show, I couldn't understand much of it, but as part of chorus laughed when people laughed, clapped when people clapped. We took few more snaps here and there. One more unqiueness of this festival is the Artisan's program, as it is the best of its type in the nation. People visit just to stroll the lanes and discover unique handmade gifts or special luxuries for themselves. Well any people having interest in artistry can really enjoy moving around. I'm not that great fan of it, so just kept on moving. One thing which I saw was pottery, artists created a beautiful jar through pottery in front of my eyes. I wished I had camera at that time with me to take the snap.
On whole it was great and exicting days spent after a long time. Well the day hasn't ended here as we thought, suddenly we planned to go to Fair Heaven Beach which is just 5 miles from that place. We spent good time near the beach by just handing around . Saw people playing beach ball, some people swimming ( if I had any idea about it, I would had brought my swimming costume, anyway better luck next time) and some people doing the most patience job. Can you guess ??? Its Fishing man, people sit for hours with a stick in hand and waiting for some fish to get into their trap. And some people enjoying riding on speed baot. Here you know some people have thier own Yatch board and they carry with them whenver they come to beach. People are ready to shell down few buks to lead a comfortable and luxury life here.
Well things don't stop here. We came back from the ride and straight away head to Pizza Hut We were literally hungry and ate one of the best pizza' i had in my life.
How about finishing the day with some more fun. So we went to Movie 'Mission Impossible III' in a near by theatre and spent the remaining evening.What a day I had folks, it took me to 15th century with all swords/spears and ended the day with fancy gadgets, missiles and pistols.
Thats all friends, hope to keep you updated regulalry. Hope you enjoyed the blog.