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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Beginning morning court dance	Doing an offbeat version	of the Spangoletta	very offbeat
Some very interesting	partner combinations	Sheriff Blood with this fine lady	The Queen seems to enjoy this number
Lucky Christophe	A more challenging approach to the dance	But there are compensations	He's not the only one to think so
1 of the amorous pretzel boys	The faire has a booth to play chess	Shakespeare's Love Child performs once a day at this shop	Some interesting fellows in the audience
Enraptured by the show	Lady Constance taking lead on this upbeat piece	These privateers showing their, uh...they have large, er..you know	A little wordplay fun with Row, Row, Row Your Boat

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