This past Labor Day weekend I ventured to a new faire. I along with several folk from Scarborough were guests of the long running Minnesota Ren Festival. About 30-40 minutes from the Twin cities, the show was an interesting mix of plentiful shops, amusingly oddball street characters and bawdy stage acts. In fact I would say this faire had a noticeably higher number of bawdy and racy acts than the typical faire. These were good acts but they would definitely raise an eyebrow or two. The weekend itself was quite the radical excursion.Friday had temperatures comparable to Texas, followed by nasty thunderstorms in the night that left 90% humidity the next day. By Monday the weather was quite ideal, cool and accomodating even the heaviest of garb. Despite the extreme weather I had a very enjoyable time.

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For information regarding this faire, check out: Minnesota Festival's Official Site

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The Molly Hares performing on the Troubador Stage	This charming fairy is Twig	The troupe The Masque doing their rendition of Henny Penny	They also do serious works like Macbeth
A pair of Divas	Cut, Thrust, And, Run indulging me	Thought it would be an fun shot since all the guys were in tights	An albino corn snake
The faire also has a juggling school	Twig passing out fairy stones	Around the corner, is Piecemeal, the grumpy fairy	Count Borgia makes disparaging remarks about the guards
Alice doesn't take kindly to attacks on her commander	It gets quite brutal	They plan on finishing this later	Borgia enlists this lad as a second for the coming duel
I liked this topiary peacock near the Pavilion	You'd think there'd be an easier way to carry ice	I think I know that masked performer	A last shot of the boys, from their base of operations?

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