Weekend Fun!

So.... No jousting... Boo!!!!! But, we did get to go watch them do something! We got a babysitter and everything, we show up to the fair on Saturday night and it is CRAZY windy! We wandered around the booths for a while then went and sat down, the first thing the announcer says is that because of the high winds, they can't do the jousting because the lances are made of real wood and it could be blown down into the horses face and injure the horses, but they would do some other things, which turned out to be fairly entertaining! Here are the knights that we were cheering on.

Sorry! I don't remember their names, we'll call them Sir Chubby and Sir Baldy. They divided everyone to cheer for one or the other, we had sir Baldy. The first thing they did was gallop past these stumps with the bulls-eye on them and throw an 8-foot spear at them for points.

Next, they explained that in Medieval (I know, I spelled it wrong earlier) times the knights would get prisoners to stand with fruit/veggies on their heads and try to run by on a horse and chop the veggies in half with a huge sword, so they got the jester up there, and I'm thinking "no way they are going to actually do this!" Well.... They did! they put a leather helmet on the Jester, then a metal one and had him stand (don't forget the crazy wind!) with a cabbage on his head and then ran by with the huge sword and chopped that cabbage right in half!! it was pretty awesome! It's not an amazing pic, 'King Arthur' literally had to stand there holding the cabbage onto the guys head and let go just in time for the knight to take a whack at it!

So after all the excitement we went to Red Lobster and had crab and lived happily ever after!

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