This past weekend was my off weekend, which means I have to work another three weekends before I get my next weekend off (which is Halloween weekend, huzzah!), and I wanted to do family things since it'll be a while before we can do stuff together on the weekend again. On Saturday, our favorite local produce market decided to have a fall festival. It sounded fun, hay rides, band, BBQ, fire truck, hay maze, etc, just fun stuff for Ri to do and for Caoimhe to gawk at. Unfortuately, it was geared for kids just a couple of years younger than Ri and he quickly got bored and in trouble. I really can't blame him, it's a great produce market (did I mention it was our favorite?) but the fall festival was far from festive. The hay ride was so boring and lasted forever that within five minutes of being on it, I was ready to jump off of it and walk my big ass back. It was disappointing and I felt like it was a waste of a half of my weekend off. To top it off, DH and I got into a wonderful fight, his fault, of course, but he was so drunk from watching to Notre Dame game with my neighbor that the next day, he only remembered that we were yelling at each other, but what it was about. Trust me, his fault. So needless to say, I did not have high hopes for Sunday because I was still upset from Saturday night and it actually took me forever to get to sleep that night because I was so pissed off. I still did not like him on Sunday morning and even let him know about it, but I felt like the kids shouldn't be punished because their dad was an asshole to mom and now there will be no fun-age. So I remembered that one of the (few) perks of living here in DE is that there's a Maryland Renaissance Faire AND a Pennsylvannia Renaissance Faire both within less than a two hour drive from our house. MD's Faire was a little closer, but that was the last one we had gone to, albeit was probably five years or more ago, so we decided to go to the Faire in PA since that was the first one we had ever gone to and we hadn't been there since we moved here in 2003. It didn't hurt that the Faire is on the grounds of a working winery and I've just becoming more enamored with wine. Well, I cannot tell you enough good things about the PA Renaissance Faire! If you're in the area, or even if you're not, go and check it out! It always starts in September and ends usually the next to last weekend in October, but this year they've extended it to the last weekend in October. My mom is thinking of coming up to visit us the last week of October into the first week of November and we're planning on taking her to the Faire on Sunday November 1st because I know she loves this kind of thing and I'm sure she'll have a blast! Riley had the fun he was looking for so the sad Saturday he had disappeared in his mind. As an added bonus, my princess officially became a princess! Check out Princess Caoimhe and go to the PA Renaissance Faire!
