Utah Renaissance Faire

Back in Texas, Sean and I were introduced to the Texas Renaissance Festival. It was one of our favorite things about Texas. The Texas Renaissance festival is one of the biggest in the country. If you don't know what a Ren Faire is, well, Lets just say that people dress up in period clothing, walk around at different booths and many Ren Faires have shows based on Shakespeare or jousting or anything you can think of. We were excited when we found a Ren Faire here in Utah. This faire was in Ogden.

Here we are in our costumes.

Sean actually made the green dress I am wearing!! (Yes, Sean does the sewing in our house, and is dang good at it!!) As you can tell, I am very pregnant at the time. Over the years we bought different things to add to our costumes like belts, boots, cups, and even weapons. We definately enjoy ouOne of the attractions we wanted to see was the full contact joust. Now in Texas, the jousting they did was all choreographed. It was kinda lame. If one knight was supposed to fall off, he fell even if the other guy missed. We had low expectations.

Before the jousting started, they had a troop of girls that did horse vaulting. The horse would trot in a circle while the girls jumped on and off and did tricks. Here are a couple of pictures of them. They were pretty cool.

Next came the jousting. Little did we know that we were about to see the coolest thing ever!! This jousting troop is called the Knights of Mayhem. They are currently working at making jousting a recognized extreme sport. This first picture is of Charlie Andrews who is the leader of the troop and current world champion in jousting. I took so many action shots. Here are a few. They actually had two different sets of jousting and we were on different sides for each.


Here is a video that I took of a hit. Yes, this is Charlie being dehorsed by his opponent. So awesome.