Sunday, September 5, 2010

King Richard's Faire

My visit to King Richard's Faire in "Carvershire" was more a feast for the eyes than for the stomach.

The land was filled not only with citizens of interesting dress and manners, but with visitors from afar clothed in garments tight or flowy or of a variety of nations or periods, armed with bow & arrow or drum or sheathed knife. Lad or lass, king or princess, wolf-man or fairy, t'was a variety of folk who passed before mine eyes.

Shows of magic and of mirth, of whips cracked high and low, of washer maids with bare feet, tales of Alice the princess in a land of wonder and confusion, great cats with their stripes, and knights who aimed at rings before facing a fight to the death. Our day was quite filled!

Games of skill and luck, axes and knives aimed at wooden shield paintings, arrows that find their mark in walls of hay. Rides run by the strength of men up high in the air. Lots to do. Shops to peruse. Clothing of fabric, clothing of leather, capes of wool, ears of fairies or of feline, toadstools and peeking worms, fairy wings, dragons for wrists, metal curls for hair.

Prior to my visit, two things I was so informed of the consumables of this land:
1) They have turkey legs, like Disney.
2) Avoid the food, everything is equally bad.

My visit was not for the purpose of seeking food to be ingested with relish, however, a visit of a length as we had intended would require the periodic refreshment of the body. Thus would I recommend the Kettle Korn which comes in small portions in paperbags for the price of 8 tickets or larger portions in plastic bags for 12. (Get the large if your party is of an appetite to demolish it.) Many choices come with fryes, so you are unlikely to need to order such fryes on their own for 8 tickets, however, you may wish to order the tasty option of sweet potato fryes for the price of 11 tickets, or a bloomin' onion for 6 - both of which arrive hot and fresh from the fryer, so consume with care! If thy appetite is for clam chowder, I wouldst suggest that thou obtainists thy boule of such chowder from the Witches' Kitchen, where portions of the creamy liquid seemed both greater and hotter than that which I had obtained from Canterbury Kitchens as served by newly arrived youthful members of the shire.

Expect not too much, and you may yet satisfactorily fill your stomaches enough to continue your wanderings and enjoyment of the land.