Wow, the last few weekends have been CRAZY! I have been to fairs, festivals, shows and more! In order:
- Territory Days in old Colorado Springs
- The Old Gaylord Festival in Denver
- Colorado Medieval Festival in Ft Collins
- Denver Exotic Sports Car show in Littleton.
Now three out of four of these were fantastic.
It was my second trip to Territory Days. Last time I had my best friend Tim with me, and he was really missed on this trip. Eating a Turkey leg by yourself just isn’t the same.
So even though I was bummed that Tim wasn’t with us, we really had a fun time. There was food on a stick, turkey legs, ribbon fries, ice cream and many fun things. There were stalls, dancing, music and face-painting – just about everything you could want in a street fair! The only down side was that there was a tiny little fenced off area, and any alcoholic beverages had to be consumed within the fence. We were panning to have margaritas, but we wanted to keep walking around (there was so much to see) that we decided to go sober.
We actually had a big group of people that day. There was Myself and Abby, Molly and Matt (brother and sister-in-law), Abby’s parents (Gary and Karen), her Aunt and her Aunts boyfriend (Kathy and Greg) as well as Abby’s cousin Victoria and her two beautiful kids.
Here’s Ella and Brenson – Great kids!:
The day after Territory days, we went to The Old Gaylord festival. Now I have to tell you, I didn’t really know what to expect, but I didn’t care one bit! As soon as I found out about a street fair with that name, I had to go and check it out.
I was more than pleasantly surprised. Right from when we first got there, it was so much fun; we parked at a nearby school, and several taxi drivers had volunteered their time to shuttle people back and forth to the festival so that parking wouldn’t be a problem. We arrived to the sounds of live music pumping from the closed off streets, and immediately fell in with the crowd. The first thing I noticed that was different from Territory Days was that almost everyone was walking around with a beer in hand. My face lit up as I thought about how freaking hot it was, and that I would be able to have a nice cool one while we wandered.
Soon I realised that the festival was partly sponsored by Dos Equis a popular Mexican been (that I had never tried before). Then, foaming Lager in hand, we walked through all the fun stall, the rides and games, sat and listened to the local jazz band Dotsero before finally ending up in the food area.
How could I turn down a chance to eat Monkey Balls at the Gaylord Festival?? Not only is it food on a stick, but it sounds dirty!
I have NOTHING good to say about the Colorado Medieval Festival. We drove 50 miles in blistering heat into the middle of nowhere. We then had to drive along a dirt road, pay $12 per person to enter, and finally found there were about 12 tents inside – each was either selling something or was a place to rest for the so called “actors”. There was a tiny area in the middle where occasionally a “show” took place.
We had 2 pulled pork sandwiches, I had a beer and Abby had a lemonade, then we tasted some mead (for which they charged us $1 for the privilege) and sat down to watch the show. It was the crappest thing I have ever seen – and I absolutely love the medieval period! There were 2 girls play-fighting with small swords and slapping each other. I’ve seen four year olds have a more convincing fight with plastic tubes! We really couldn’t take it any longer, so we left
All in all we spend $40 for about 45 of boredom out in the middle of a dust-bowl. I really, really hope that someone from the festival is reading this because I would recommend that no one ever go close to the place again!
And to make matter worse, they had the gall to sell 3–day passes!!! Who in their right mind would want to be tortured for that long?? Take a hint people: make it 1 day, spend some money and get a big crowd for a single day and you’ll find that people will return every year.
Fortunately, I have been informed by Abby that the Renaissance Festival later in the year is about 16 times as big, and a whole lot more fun, so I’m holding out for that.
My faith in Festivals was restored by this beauty the very next day! This gorgeous $600,000 (US) Saleen S7 was standing at the doorway of the Exotic car show in Littleton. The $10 entry fee was more than worth it with several hundred classic and new sports cars. If I thought that I missed Tim at Territory days, it was nothing compared to this – He would have been in HEAVEN!
I’ll post a couple of pictures, but they don’t really show the scope and the magnitude of what was there. I believe there were about 20 Porsches in the Parking lot – let alone in the show (there must have been more than 50 on display)!
There are some more pictures on my Flickr Site.
OK, That’s all for now!!
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