Pigs Love Eddy

How could it be that we have never been to the Texas Renaissance Festival just the two of us?  The first year we went with Dave and Dana and the second year we took my folks.  This year it was just us.  We saw this dude.

He did an amazing pantomime act.

Oh yeah, also he juggled fire. We also saw this dude.

Yep. Very Renaissance-y. Eddy threw some axes in honor of Dave.

I petted some goats in honor of, well, petting goats.

What you can't tell from these pictures is that there were two pigs at the petting zoo. Eddy liked to scratch their backs. In return, they made these very loud SQUAUUUUNK noises at him. Pigs love Eddy.

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Cobb Extravaganza

My parents came to visit us! It was beyond awesome.

In addition to eating lots of yummy things (which we totally did) we also showed them some of the Houston sights. For instance:

The aquarium

I mean, they have some fish there, but also they have these tigers...

The biggest surprise hit, though was the Texas Renaissance Festival which we thoroughly enjoyed last year as well.

See if you can spot mom photo bombing above.

They also got to come by and see our new house and pet the cats' butts and all of that good stuff.

Thanks for visiting, mom and dad! See you in STL!

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Let Ye Olde Merriment Begin

This Thanksgiving weekend, we made merriment at the Texas Renaissance Festival with DP2.

Yes, the nerds in costume were out in force. Let's just say this sign did not apply:

Sadly, most of the costumes we saw were not Renaissance per se. We saw these guys, for instance:

And there were lots of these guys.

The good news was that we got to do (and throw) lots of Renaissance-y things.

We even took in some real live (fake) jousting.

We were ye olde wiped out when we got home!

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