Attend a Reenactment: An Ongoing Post

I like reenactments, thus I try to go to as many as I can. I'll probably go to the Texas Renaissance Festival at least 2 more times so this post shall be updated then.

 

World War II Reenactment in College Station

Back in March? ( it doesn't seem like its been that long, this year is going by way to fast) my friend Ayla and I drove to College Station for a World War II reenactment. After a very....exciting....drive through tiny back roads (that for some reason had 70mph speed limits) we neared the location of the reenactment. I'd worried that we would accidentally drive past it with out noticing but it turned out not to be a problem. Large American and German tanks are pretty hard to miss. Thanks to a few wrong turns we arrived there a bit later than we meant too and the battle had already started.

 We did however get there just in time to see the charge of American tanks that helped them win the battle. You don't quite realize how big those things are till you see them in person. 

Maybe 20 minutes later the battle had ended with a victory for the Americans and we were allowed to walk across the field and talk to the reenactors. (After they made sure all explosives were safely discharged of course.)  

As we walked around we talked with many of the people. All the weapons were actually working guns just loaded with blanks. The reenactors also carried around the same papers that a person of that time would (id papers from their respective countries ect) Its amazing the amount of work that is put into the reenactment to make it as authentic as possible.

As Ayla and I walked around the gentlemen in the panzer tank jokingly hit on us and warned us that the American soldier wouldn't as much of gentlemen. 

Ren Faire

So far I've been to the Renaissance festival twice this year. I went to the opening weekend (Oktoberfest) with my dad and later I went to Pirate weekend with a group of friends. We also plan on going back for the closing weekend Celtic Christmas. 

For Oktoberfest I planned on getting there early. Like most of my plans that did not happen. I took longer getting ready then I expected and just before I left my house it started to rain. Luckily by the time my dad and I got to the faire the rain had stoppped. The ground however was muddy which made walking hard. (Heels and mud are not mixture) We walked around for a bit and the stopped at Polonia, the polish area, to get food. As we finished eating we noticed the sky was during dark again so ended up leaving. Turns out that was the perfect time to leave. Just after we got in the car it began to  pour. 

 Since I never got around to fixing my dirndl I just wear some random clothes from my closet.

Later on in October I went back to the ren faire for Pirate Weekend with friends. Friday night when I got off work I met up with some friends and we drove down to the ren faire. We camped there than night so we could avoid traffic and get to the fair early. We ended being in the fairgrounds from 10am till closing fireworks around 8pm. Mostly we walked around looking at what was going on and what was being sold.

 

This time I actually planned out an outfit. I ended up going with a steampunk styled outfit since I already had a lot of the items needed to make one. Last minutes I sewed a skirt to go with the outfit. Once again I ended up wearing heels. While the ground wasn't muddy they still sunk into it making it difficult to walk on grass. This always ends up happpening, I wear shoes that really aren't suited for what I am doing. It also ended up being a little chilly that day and both the shirt and skirt were thin. Once big problem I hadn't of was the wind. The shorter layer of the skirt is a circle skirt made from two full circles of fabric and its made from a thing fabric. When the wind would blow that skirt would just fly up and because of the shear amount of fabric it was hard to stop it.

That night we camped again and then left sunday morning to go home. 

Overall it was a fun weekend, I plan on going back for Celtic Christmas with the same group of friends. This time though I'll try to wear shoes better suited for the ground.