Unlike the first weekend, and most of last summer, this weekend was simply beautiful. The sun was out (again, making for bad picture taking days), but the temperature was sublime. Given that my "summer schedule" has fully kicked in, I didn't quite make it to opening gate either day -- in fact, it was pretty lucky that I made it in before the mid-day parade. What that means is that I've found it awfully hard to wake up before 10:00 am, but have been wondering why the faire is closed at 2:00 am. Am I alone in the wish that faire went on until after dark? Am I? Am I? I've been missing out on the wench walks by the new Wenches Guilde at Bristol, as well as the Pub Crawls that happen daily at 3:00 pm starting at the Pig N' Whistle (those, of course, are unofficial events). Instead, this weekend, I sat near the Dirty Duck most of Saturday people watching. Sunday, I took a nap at the Hamlet and browsed through most of the shops. I also learned that we should be keeping an eye on the upcoming game Red Faction 2. Why? While we won't recognize anyone in the game by face, we'll recognize someone's moves.

As Always... click on the image for a larger view...

Hanlon-Lee Joust company	Zoom	The red, white, and blue comes racing in	Dancing down at Thistlecroft
Swings	Barnum Bailey	Another general faire shot, this one looking from the Dirty Duck towards the Buttery	Glancing up Guildehall Row
Authentic Printing Press	At MacWhelan Press (I really like their Bristol Maps -- did I mention my birthday is this Thursday?)	Andrew Calhoun at the Guildhall stage (not a very flattering picture, sorry)	Hawking at Erin McKee Fyne Art
"Let's do Llama! Llama, Llama bo bomma, banana fanana..."	Pottery by Sutter Junction (they always have nice displays)	LA view of the tree and skies during my nap	It's my hat. It's on my knee.
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