Is It Time For A Faire Yet?

My calendar says it's Spring, but the weather today was definitely early Summer--a sure sign that Renne Season is fast approaching. Is it any wonder my friend Rachel sent me an email saying, "Is it time for a faire yet?" My answer: "NOT SOON ENOUGH!" It was one of those days.

This picture is from the 2003 New York Renaissance Faire in Tuxedo, New York. I think this was the year Rachel and I took our friend Lisa to her first faire and helped her pick out her first garb. This year's faire does not begin until August 4th. NOT SOON ENOUGH!

The first faire of "the season" for us will be the Southern Connecticut Renaissance Festival, which is the closest one to us--in Ansonia, about a 45 minute drive. Sometime in the next month or so I will pull out my garb to make sure it is clean and to make any necessary repairs and adjustments. However, this faire does not begin until July 6th. NOT SOON ENOUGH!

This picture, also taken in 2003, is from our favorite faire, the Connecticut Renaissance Faire, which after a disastrous flood at the Woodstock Fair Grounds two years ago, relocated to Hebron. It runs from late September through late October. NOT SOON ENOUGH!

Our "end of the Season" faire is King Richard's Faire in Carver, Massachusetts. It was so chilly during the first time we attended it (closing weekend three years ago) that we each bought a cloak to wrap ourselves in. Because it is a three hour drive, we usually take Friday off and make a long weekend of it. Friday we visit some place within an hour's drive or less from Carver (one year it was Plimouth Plantation, last year it was Salem), Saturday we attend the faire, and Sunday we make a leisurely drive home stopping one or two interesting places along the way. King Richard's runs from the beginning of September until mid- to late-October. Definitely NOT SOON ENOUGH!