Just got back from a weekend at the excellent Colorado renaissance faire in Larkspur, Colorado. Awesome stuff. They've got a great recreated little village, loads of awesome little store booths, jousting, entertainment, and loads of pointy steel objects. Stopped by one of my favorites - Badger Blades (www.badgerblades.com) and picked me up a really nice heavy throwing knife. This thing will pierce car doors. Those guys make some amazingly tough steel without making it brittle.

Also, I got myself a kilt with a nice green - black - red tartan on it. I'm wearing it as I type this. Heck yeah.

Sounds Fun!I've never been to a Renaissance Fair before, but I have gone to the Excalibur in Los Vegas before.

I love Ren Faires! I went to one a couple weeks ago, got myself a rather chinsy Roman batte Axe (looks cool anyways ) and I got myself a black fox tail.

Damn, you got a kilt. I'm jealous.

Is it a traditional kilt or a French style though?

....ya know, I'd expect that from SS, but that was kindly unexpected from you there.

And SS was very annoyed at that fact, plus how X keeps asking for it to be 'petted' over MSN... >_>

My annoyance is that it's a black fox tail.... why not a brown one? Eh, I'll keep to throwing the fact in X's face of how I still got an electric guitar and can play it! Well.... for two songs.

I'd love to go to one of these howeveryouspellit fairs.

The kilt is most definetly traditional style. Wore yesterday to work and last night to a party for one of my friends who is gonna be in south america for a couple years. Love the reactions I get out of people.

I forget, is it you two, or is it someone else on these forums sharing an apartment?

Sharing an apartment? No, I think you mean X and X's bro, Ganome.

I knew it was someone.

Hah! Nice.

I need to get one sometime. Traditional style.

Though you wore it to work? Wouldn't that get awfully warm? The traditional style is wrapped around your shoulder a couple times and then the rest is like the French style, which most people associate as the Scottish kilt.



Well, you see, my options there were any colour I wanted as long as it was black. Or I could've paid an arm and a leg (they had the tools to remove them) for a white, pale blue, pale pink, or a steel one.



Uh... when'd you throw that in my face...?

Either way, that doesn't really make me jealous...

Yeah. . .It got pretty hot, especially since I was wearing the full-length traditional shirt, and the beret. Fortunately, my desk is six feet from a huge air conditioner fed by a high-voltage power supply and a high-pressure hose.

Ah... nice.

I don't know, for some reason the renaissance faire and Medieval Times seem really similar. I saw some awesome lookin' claymores over there last time.