Back in time...

Today was my final day of R.A.ing for the summer. The end has finally come and Mitch, Sean, and I were all about celebrating it. I think I must preface the whole story by giving some background information. So, every year Sterling, a town about an hour and half away from Rochester, holds the annual Renaissance Festival. In a campground of about 25 acres there are tents, houses, dirt roads, and of course people dressed in period clothing. One is actually taken back to the 15th and 16th centuries. One can see jousting, Queen Elizabeth I, an array of actors that play very well the role of peasants. A friend of ours, Mike, is actually working there as a young gallant by the name of Alexander Gibbs.
Back to the story: Mitch and Sean had been planning to go to this festival for quite a while and when I arrived at Rochester, they insisted that I should come along, too. But Sean and Mitch are two people that take everything to the extreme. So, they decided that we needed costumes. But we weren't going to be simple Renaissance peasants. They opted for being robots from the future. Of course, at first the idea was superb, but we couldn't get together every weekend as planned to work on our costumes. Sean and Mitch worked immense amounts of hours on Sean's costume which turned out to be FANTASTIC!!! Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time to make a descent costume. So, 30 minutes before leaving Sean handed me the ducktape and I made a ducktape armor, wrist and head bands, and decorated some pants. Let me tell you, that ducktape corsett was very difficult to make and extremely hot to wear. But nonetheless, it got the job done. And not to mention, it exentuated some parts of my body, a.k.a. the chest area. hehehe
When we arrived on the grounds of the festival, we added the final details to our costumes and fueled up of course on 'dunkel' German beers that we had previously bought at Beers of the World. We wouldn't of been able to pull of the shit that we did, if it weren't for our alcohol intoxication. I went by the name ofMaschina (just like the 'Smashing Pumpkins' last album) and I was a human from the future accompanied by my two robots. We were on a mission to find a bloke by the name of Alexander Gibbs (a.k.a. Mike) in order to restore the past and secure the future. We walked all around the festival and the reactions of all the people were great, even the actors'.
Sean had some speakers attached to the top to his costume that were adapted to his I-pod. Queen Elizabeth the First requested us to dance; so we danced "Tunuc, Tunuc" and pretty soon the queen, her maidens, and everybody around us were following our dance. It was great. People came up to us asking us if we worked there. It was such a fun experience just having everyone there turning there heads as we would cross paths. OMG, we were such a hit that I even ended up bethroted (engaged) to one of the Masters, an actor, working there. Apparently, he had a passion for the future and technology. Hahahaha I politely declined because "I had to return to future."
It rained throughout the entire day, but that did not keep us from taking advantage of this great opportunity. It was also refreshing to get wet by the drops of rain because our costumes were very hot. Oh, what an image... a futuristic girl by the name of Maschina covered with ducktape and soaking wet!!! ;) We indulged ourselves with grilled turkey legs which very much made us feel like we were in fact in the past. They were so yummy.
I think the best part of today was being able to do whatever the heck we wanted and not care what others thought. It was such a reliving feeling and I hope that I can take a little bit of that and use it in my everyday life.


Tunuc, Tunuc, Tunuc
Ooohh da da da!!!