My daughter, Jessica, decided that the way to get in the mood for the renaissance fair was to get her hair braided…

Because… you know… wearing a cloak and walking around with a guy dressed as a monk wasn’t enough…

You gotta do what you gotta do…

It was quite a process…

It did turn out to be pretty cool…

There are real flowers in her hair… and if you look really close, you can see the cyborg/hearing implant that is drilled into her skull. She lost the hearing bones in one ear when she was little, due to repeated ear infections and surgeries. Now she is a freekin’ Borg!

While she was having her hair done, I wandered off…

I may have had a few beers…

Which may explain why Jessica was later able to take these photos of me, engaged in a religious argument… (involving, as I recall, the moral inconstancies inherent in a monk carrying a sword)… with a stump.

We even saw a wedding party walking by… a real-life wedding party… because these people got dressed up to get married old-school style.

So, that’s about it for our adventure at the ren fair…

It really was a fun thing to do together… and yes, I do see that I look like a young emperor Palpatine in that picture…

I really wish I had tried the axe throwing, but we had had a long day…

I mean, I was really only there for one full day… and a couple of half-days… but we did a lot. I hope you join me for the rest of the story of my weekend adventure later.