This was the opening weekend for the Renaissance Festival and tickets were buy one get one. It was cold and wet when we went last year, so I thought we should brave the traffic and enjoy the sunny, hot day outside. The traffic was much worse than I thought, and it took us an hour to travel about 3 miles. It was crowded when we arrived, but we still have a good time. Grace is all about the rides. You would think she would be more interested in the costumed characters and neat buildings, but she paid little attention to them. She did sit long enough to watch a joust and a few minutes on a bird show. At the end, she had to have a caramel apple with sprinkles. So she sat and listened to a harp player for 30 minutes until she had eaten the entire, huge apple. She did not want to share and we couldn't get it away from her until she was finished.