Maryland Renaissance Festival: Scottish Weekend

Where else can you find so many men in kilts?

[med] | [big] | [info] The crowd gathers at the gate, pirate women too.	[med] | [big] | [info] There's a nice feature in one's cap.	[med] | [big] | [info] Revel Grove is about to open.
[med] | [big] | [info] Note the umbrella: Medieval Hello Kitty.	[med] | [big] | [info] Again, what's up with the cat theme?	[med] | [big] | [info] This kid has the right idea, sidestep the crowd.
[med] | [big] | [info] These men have black powder, and they know how to use it."	[med] | [big] | [info] Robin Hood!!!	[med] | [big] | [info] Good Ole King Henry
[med] | [big] | [info] Banners in Revel Grove	[med] | [big] | [info] Look real close — how does her hair do that?	[med] | [big] | [info] The pointy end goes in the other man.
[med] | [big] | [info] Fight School	[med] | [big] | [info] A tree nymph stretches before hiding in the woods.	[med] | [big] | [info] Johnny Foxx: Cups and Balls..and oranges..and apples...
[med] | [big] | [info] Tamara, Shawn Craig, and Alan watching Barto	[med] | [big] | [info] Barto spins a frisbee.	[med] | [big] | [info] Not good enough? How about inflating a rubber glove?
[med] | [big] | [info] Still not good enough? Dislocating one's arms and drinking a beer?	[med] | [big] | [info] What do you people want from me? Going through a barrel the hard way?	[med] | [big] | [info] Climbing up high?
[med] | [big] | [info] Wait. Putting my foot back here?	[med] | [big] | [info] Not good enough. We want fire!	[med] | [big] | [info] While standing on a tight rope.
[med] | [big] | [info] (Barto gets burned.) Yay!	[med] | [big] | [info] Now juggle it.	[med] | [big] | [info] Oh, and have people holding the tightrope.
[med] | [big] | [info] Yes. Juggle it. I'm serious. Go. What are you waiting for?	[med] | [big] | [info] Like this? Close. Now eat it.	[med] | [big] | [info] Barto swalllows the flaming torch.
[med] | [big] | [info] Now that's entertainment. Isn't Tamara demanding?	[med] | [big] | [info] Some booth.	[med] | [big] | [info] Some girl.
[med] | [big] | [info] Some actors seeing the improv group get more applause than they got.	[med] | [big] | [info] The Forest of Revel Grove.	[med] | [big] | [info] The Globe Theater
[med] | [big] | [info] An audience member getting drawn into the show.	[med] | [big] | [info] At any moment, Bob could pull you into the show...	[med] | [big] | [info] Or, Bob could screw with your head and choose someone else! HA! Go Bob!
[med] | [big] | [info] Thunderhold, the Iron Smith	[med] | [big] | [info] Did you know an iron smith can also get rid of pesky insects?	[med] | [big] | [info] Caber Tossing: a.k.a. flipping a telephone pole
[med] | [big] | [info] If it flips all the way over, you win.	[med] | [big] | [info] This is the first time the festival had 'a girl' toss a Caber.	[med] | [big] | [info] Yes, it's heavy. But she's doing it.
[med] | [big] | [info] She's really gonna do it...	[med] | [big] | [info] She did it! She really did it! She threw a telephone pole!	[med] | [big] | [info] "And she gets a high-five for being the first woman ever at the festival to do it!
[med] | [big] | [info] Oh yes, she's 'the man!'	[med] | [big] | [info] Again? Uh, no thank you.	[med] | [big] | [info] So, her friend tries.
[med] | [big] | [info] Boink!	[med] | [big] | [info] GiGi: the fairy mime on stilts.	[med] | [big] | [info] She smiled at me.
[med] | [big] | [info] GiGi finds another stilt person.	[med] | [big] | [info] The Drench a Wench got wet.	[med] | [big] | [info] The Half Moon
[med] | [big] | [info] Spontaneous Belly Dancing	[med] | [big] | [info] Spontaneous hideousness.	[med] | [big] | [info] Actresses upstage the men.
[med] | [big] | [info] Mind control - RenPower!	[med] | [big] | [info] Dear God, they've got Tamara!	[med] | [big] | [info] Bob, you wicked, wicked man! Release the masses from your mental enslavement!
[med] | [big] | [info] The mind wipe begins... were they a secret agent or Mars, or not?	[med] | [big] | [info] The woods of Revel Grove	[med] | [big] | [info] Hypnotized, these young ladies are about to get poked in the butt by their imagination.
[med] | [big] | [info] Yes, that is a man in a kilt walking a tight rope over a crowd.	[med] | [big] | [info] Occasionally, he falls.	[med] | [big] | [info] Occasionally, he does not.
[med] | [big] | [info] Man in kilt on tight rope above crowd proposes on one knee.	[med] | [big] | [info] To celebrate, he juggles fire and knives.	[med] | [big] | [info] And manages to set his face on fire.
[med] | [big] | [info] Sure, let the little girl pimp your music.	[med] | [big] | [info] Bag piper.	[med] | [big] | [info] Who knew chicks liked dancing to bag pipes?
[med] | [big] | [info] Who knew wives didn't like husbands photographing chicks dancing to bag pipes?	[med] | [big] | [info] Who knew bag pipes were so darn loud?	[med] | [big] | [info] Check out that tail on that one.
[med] | [big] | [info] More bag pipes. More dancing.	[med] | [big] | [info] Drink booth girl without any customers.	[med] | [big] | [info] We know who can solve that!