Princesses, Pirates, and Pixies

If you've never been to the Georgia Renaissance Festival, this is something you ought to try at least once. I have never had any desire to go to this event near the Atlanta airport until last night, when I learned it was "buy-one-get-one-free" weekend. So we made the hour-and-a-half trip to Fairburn for a very entertaining afternoon.


Here are some things that I found very interesting: all the rides we powered by man, not electricity. The swing ride was driven by two men pushing the center piece in circles, the pirate ships were powered by a pulley-system that the rider had to manuever. The crafts they sold were all handmade--no plastic! The wooden swords and shields and fairy wands and wings made of ribbons and wire. The Lipizzan stallions were beautiful to watch and the costumes were all so detailed. The petting zoo had some really cool animals both Kinsey ad Max enjoyed. But my very favorite thing of all was Mother Goose, who actually lets you hold her and pet her.



Here are some things that I found, uh, interesting: I realized that all the people in the parking lot who were dressed up were NOT workers of the festival. I did not know that pirates, beasts and fairies were all considered "renaissance". Also, some of the costumes were scary. There were elf ears, little goat horns, and very big women stuffed in teeny tiny corsets! We actually bought tickets to go back again, believe it or not!!!