Ramblings of a Northerner

Weather luck for RMF

September 23rd, 2006

Another year of super lucky weather control.  It stopped raining for exactly the period of the medieval faire — stopped early in the morning before we got to the park and started again late in the evening.  So, the day started very cloudy and overcast but we got moving right away…  we got lots done the previous two setup days so we didn’t have much to do this morning other than deploy the straw and setup some tents and games.  Some minor vandalism that the security guard actually CAUGHT! (must be a good year, as we never had good security).  Bathrooms arrived on time and clean this year and everyone snapped to action on their remaining tasks (special thanks to Nicole and Glenn on the vendor control).  The day started and the faire was underway…  weather stayed gloomy for most of the morning, but thankfully still no rain.  The gold group did a fantastic job at the year recaps and warming up the audience and our scenes were pretty good — fights were as they always are, minor issues but largely good.  The weather got sunnier and the falcon guy wanted to fly his birds, so he did, but they flew away and he couldn’t get it back for a long time because they were heavily distracted by the large number of people.  The second thing that was fun was the maypole guy got his ribbons twisted up and couldn’t untangle them, so he stopped doing the maypole — I sent Al over and he fixed that…  if you ever do a festival, you need Al, he’s a brilliant site manager.  Games ran well and our new additions (Maypole, Quintain and Hit a Knight) were well received, although looking at Ian at the end of the day, he and his crew were wiped from having so many kids attack them.  Faire sped by and wrapped and we started breakdown a bit late (6:10) and being that we’re a week later, we were worried about the amount of time (sunset at 7:30).  Well, magic must have really been with us, because with unprecidented speed the truck was loaded by 7:20 and we were offsite by 7:45.  Storage was unloaded completely and we were at the restaurant by 9pm which was totally unbelieveable.  All and all, the 9th year was a good year considering how it could have gone…  numbers were down, about 3500-4000, but likely because of the weather — at the very least we are a go for next year and we plan on making it a big one.

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Entry Filed under: Blade and Script, Festivals, Highlights