Going back... Back into time.

June 01, 2016 / David Nagooyen

For the past 53 years, the Renaissance Pleasure Faire has taken place in Southern California. It has grown into an annual interactive playground and gallery for over 200,000 participants. Guest are not required to dress up, but I highly recommend it.

A group of friends invited me to my first faire last year, and I was hooked! Disconnecting from the real world and immersing myself in the culture of those who lived during the time between the middle and modern age was a humbling and exciting experience. Unfortunately, due to common story of, "As we get older, it's harder to get everyone together," my costume clad group dwindled down to a fraction of last year's. However, we reaped the benefits of not having to wait for anyone, and we got to do everything that we wanted at the perfect pace!

Free bowling... The drawback was that we had manually reset the pins and fetch our balls.

There were a lot of pay to play games, but this one was the biggest carni scam since a birdie told me that no one has won the jackpot in two years.

Pay to beat up dummies? Release that pent up anger kid!

Freshly made chips with bacon, cheese, sour cream, and green onions

It's harder than it looks. You need to be able to throw a fast ball to make the knives stick.

We won this medallion for getting the eggs in... Wait... What does it read?

Do you have the strength to hit the bell?

This picture shall remind me to never photobomb again.

So... Who wants to come next year?

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tags / Renaissance Faire, game of thrones, pirates, Renaissance pleasure faire, santa fe springs, medieval times, cosplay