Texas Renaissance Festival

Manor New Tech High's third annual trip to the Texas Renaissance Festival was a relaxing getaway from school. We left around 8:45 and arrived at the festival around noon. We began by making our way to the nearest food shop. I purchased a very delicious 'sausage on a stick' for $4. All of the meals were $4, which I though was a little high, but I suppose that's what you have to expect at a place like Ren Fest. We then began a quite extensive search for an ice cream shop. After passing several 'Frozen Drink' shops and one 'Pudding' shop we finally stumbled upon an ice cream vendor. We had to eat our ice cream pretty fast though, because it was already one 'o clock and getting quite hot out. We sat with our melting ice creams and watched the jousting death match. The match was between England and Spain. The match was very entertaining, even though poorly acted out at some points. I was cheering for Spain, who lost in the end, which kind of sucked.

Being full of food and a little exhausted from the combination of humidity and walking so much, i decided to sit and watch a play. I left after about three minutes though. I had no idea what was happening on stage, and one of the actors was extremely obnoxious. I made my way to the rock wall, where anybody could pay $10 to climb the 'challenge wall'. If they made it to the top they won $20. I watched three of my friends make no progress up the wall, I felt horrible for them for losing 30 bucks for nothing. The wall itself looked nearly impossible to climb. After that disappointing endeavor we walked over to the 'sphere play' lessons, which were free! We learned some pretty cool stuff that can be done with spheres. My friend Mason bought one, even though he wasn't very good at it.

Finally we walked over to the Globe Theater where we signed in so that our teachers would know we were there and not off lost in the maze or something. After everyone was accounted for we loaded up the buses and began our drive back to Manor. The bus ride home seemed faster than the ride there, but we were all extremely thirsty. It was very hot and there was very little room in those little bus seats. It was defiantly not a comfy ride. But the trip as a whole was pretty fun i suppose. Minus the fact that there is little to do without having to overpay for everything, I had an okay time. I'll just say that its been fun going there these three years, but I am somewhat glad that I won't have to go there again, I think I've had enough of the renaissance for quite a while.

-Nick