The Dore Family: April 2012

Monday, April 23, 2012

Shakespeare 2012!!!

Happy 448th birthday to William Shakespeare!!! Can't wait to see As You Like It this Summer!!!

Monday, April 16, 2012

Renn Faire 2012!!!

It's dragon and fairy time again...

Time to bust out the bodices. I'm not sure Amy and I will ever be busting out of anything, but we had fun dressing up like wenches. Note Amy's great hat - and her tankard.

Jack wearing the last fragment of his dragon costume as he signs up with her Majesty's navy.

After getting reeled in.

Archery! It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye!

Lorelei was a crack shot. All those summers of archery lessons at Tom Sawyer's summer camp must be paying off.

Jack and Patrick looking pretty determined. (I think Patrick was as excited about the archery as the kids.) We also did a couple of slow turtle races that were pretty hilarious.

The annual dragon swing ride.

Woo...

Hoo!!!

The queen's procession.

The queen, herself, huzzah!

One of the amazing fairies from this year!

Another one of the really extraordinary fairies. Their makeup and costumes were exquisite and they had a cool, slow way of moving that really did make them look other-worldly.

Plus, the grownups at faire pretended like they couldn't see them, which the kids really liked.

And an ogre! Ahhhhh! Jack hid behind me the whole time we were near him.

It poured on Friday and was chilly on Saturday, but we got beautiful ice cream weather for faire on Sunday.

The maypole.

A great juggling act that Amy and Jamie and Felix and Patrick stayed to watch.

The queen having a laugh in front of the privies.

We were very lucky to have Kathi and Petur with us this year.

Patrick put some finishing touches on his costume (thank you Amy and Jamie and Bell and Steve!) He got a cool little clip to hold his tankard. Now all he needs is Petur's dragon belt.

A tired boy at the end of a long day.

A couple of other happy fellows. Cheers!!!

Monday, April 9, 2012

Happy Easter!

Let the hiding begin!

Eggs...

eggs...

everywhere!

Wait for it...

...and they're off! Felix is in the lead! (Note that Jack dropped his basket, but that didn't slow him down too much.)

Jack be nimble,

Jack be quick, Jack got all the tree eggs lickety-split.

Pretty Ms. Scarlett in her Easter dress.

Pretty Ms. Lorelei in her Easter dress and the edge of sweet Summer's pretty dress too.

The grown ups doing the egg drop race.

Tired, sugared out kids. It was definitely a good Easter. Thanks to Amy for organizing the egg hunt and to Patrick, Jamie and Algis for doing such a good job of hiding the eggs! Thanks Easter Bunny, bawk, bawk!