Pure Imagination

For Halloween this year we went with a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory theme.  The movie always reminds me of when my childhood friend Shauna and I stayed up all night playing the game Payday.  We played the game by the light of the television set that was showing this movie over and over again.  We would have to stop playing the game for a few minutes during the tunnel scene.   I love that memory.
Trent made a great Willie Wonka and I was a natural fit for an Oompa Loompa.  Trent had a fun idea for our church's Trunk and Treat.  We used the theme of the Wonkavision. The Wonkavision is a machine that could take a large candy bar and transport it through the air and send it through a television as smaller size candy bar.  We had the kids push a button on a hand held toy that had colored lights spin around.  They then tapped the large Nerds box and then would reach underneath to grab a smaller one that they could take home.  All the kids loved it!

Maryland Renaissance Festival

Okay, okay. I give in.  Yes, I love when people dress up in period costume.  This blog is full of period costumes and I might as well just own up to it.  So when you are someone that likes to people watch and see renaissance garb, you must go to the Maryland Renaissance Festival.  We went with some good friends of ours and their adorable daughter and had a wonderful time. 
This is the festival of all festivals.  The village was built just for the renaissance festival that comes each year.  It is like being transported to another time.  There was great food like the whole turkey legs, steak-on-a-stick, and apple dumplings.  There were so many wonders to behold and games to play.  The main event was the live action jousting. 

Many performers that juggled, told jokes, and put on plays.

This is the closest we came to dressing up....this year. 

The Scenes

 

 

Our friend's daughter got an elephant ride!  She was so excited.

Games like Skittles (a little like bowling but the pins are tied down with a rope on the bottom), Jacob's Ladder, and renaissance plinko.

 

This might have been the throw that bounced off the top and hit the game attendant on the head.  Oops.

Acrobatics!

 

We got in a little trouble during the day and spent some time in the stocks.  Trent for Gluttony as he ate everything in sight and Mandy for being a fop.  Yeah, I did not know what it meant.  It seems to mean someone that is too concerned with appearances which was perfect for me as I was judging others for walking around with fox tails.  But seriously, fox tails.  That does not make sense.

 

Now for jousting with the royal party.