To The Alehouse!

This weekend was lots of fun, and I didn't even do anything I was planning on doing Friday. Everything sort of changed mid-stream. My plan was to spend the weekend cleaning up my apartment, doing a major clean type deal because it really needs it, going over to my friends for a little while on saturday. However, all of this changed when i got my replacement drivers license in the mail on Saturday.

I usually go to the Sterling Renaissance Festival in Sterling, NY every year with my sister, but she ended up not going this year for several reasons. My friends (Jay and Wassy) were going on Sunday, but I didn't really want to spend the money since we were going to be doing the state fair at the end of August, and I wanted to save money for that. However I did really want to go this year since they got a new owner and had a lot of improvements.

I had settled on not going though…until my drivers license arrived in the mail. Which means I could also partake in some of the consuming of spirits, which was all I needed to push me over the edge of going, so we rearranged plans and they swung by Sunday morning to pick me up and off we went.

We arrived promptly on time, no thanks to the GPS continually falling off their windshield (I need to get the weighted mount thingy for it…), got our hands stamped and started wandering around the shops a bit. My friend Jay wanted some coffee so we stopped by one of the vendors to grab one but they had a little problem with their coffee machine. So what started out as a quick coffee pitstop turned into a 10 minute coffee wait. I had to take a picture of the cup of coffee so that it will be preserved for all time. And it is there to the left.

After the coffee we headed to catch the rat show which I saw last year and my friends hadn't seen. It was as good as I remember it being and my friends enjoyed it too, which is also a plus. After the rat show, the pubs had opened, so we took a little break and had some lunch and mead/beer depending on who you were (I went with the mead).

We wandered on over to where one of the new attractions was, some acrobat type people who put on a really neat show. The pictures don't really show how high they were but they were high enough where a fall would hurt a good deal, but not high enough where they could right themselves to land on their feet if they did fall. Thankfully, nobody fell and the show was really quite interesting. I hope they're back next year.

After that things got a little fuzzy as to the order of things. There was some wandering around, I caught another show which my friends weren't terribly interested in, but I thought was good. Another stop at the pubs and I tried some draft cider this time which was good (And if anyone was wondering, yes there was water for me sprinkled in with the drinking to stay hydrated and all that). There was also a stop at the archery booth for the necessary bit of archery. I did ok, but my friend Jay ended up doing better (after nearly whacking himself in the face with an arrow which deducted major points). I stopped taking pictures at this point because I was just relaxing and having too much fun to think about it.

Towards the end of the day we went out wine tasting at the booths outside the show. We eventually ended up spending the most time over at the Thousand Islands Winery booth where we were guided through their selection by a entertaining and nice man who was also wearing no pants. Their wines were awesome though and I ended up buying two bottles, one of a Niagara and one of a dessert wine called Seaway Blues which is a blueberry flavored wine which I was surprised that I liked more than the Strawberry that I tried.

After that we went back in and wandered for a bit more but eventually we grew tired and made the trek home. All in all, I'm very glad I decided to go as the day was just perfect. Good weather, good company and a good time.

Unfortunetly…now I keep thinking it's Sunday because I usually don't do anything major on Sundays and have another day of the weekend to get through before I have to go back to work

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