This weekend is the Ashville Viking Festival, despite it's name, it is really just a small medieval, renaissance and fantrasy festival and not strictly devoted to Vikings at all. The festival runs the weekend only, so it is not only small, but a short festival as well... But still good and lots of fun despite it's size.

It's in the small town of Ashville Ohio, which is about a 20 minute drive south of Columbus. I think this will be the fifth year of the festival, and the fourth year that I have attended... Pretty wild considering I have only lived in Columbus for just over two years. This year, Jessica and I are going to do things a little differently, not only are we going to remember the camera this time, we are probably going to bring the camcorder as well...

Anyway, I think that is all I am going to write on the matter for now, I'll probably post something of a detailed account of my adventures after this weekend..

So Monday (Labour Day) I went back to the Pittsburgh area Rennaisance Festival. I had such a good time there last week, and I really wanted Jessica to have a chance to visit as well. Mike (not me, another Mike) came along as well, which was great, it's always merrier with more.

Everyone seemed to have fun. I finally got the last wall panels to Trish and Shannon for their tent (that I made for them). I showed Molly her almost completed Stays (which she seemed to love).

Silly me, volunteered to be a part of a show.... And I was pinched on one cheek (the one on my face you dirty....) while I was licked on the other cheek (again the one on my face!) for my efforts as a volunteer. All good clean fun...


So many funny things through out the day, far too many to relate.... But towards the end of the day, someone cracked a joke about Shannon trying on a corset. We'll being Shannon, he couldn't resist the opportunity for silliness, and so he went across and got fitted and laced into a nice little leather corset. The silliness didn't end there.... He wound up in bed with Jack Sparrow and Wil Turner, I think there was also an incident with Shannon still in the corset and Prince Valiant and Prince Charming, but I missed that one.... Things just get so rediculously funny with Shannon around... Too much fun.