{"id":5584,"date":"2012-09-23T14:18:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T19:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2012-09-23T14:18:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T19:18:35","slug":"ren-fest-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=5584","title":{"rendered":"Ren Fest 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Tim &amp; I took the kids to the Renaissance Festival here in town.\u00a0 We had been given 2 free tickets and we discovered that the kids would be free&#8211;so why not?\u00a0 Chloe had a fantastic time seeing all of the animals and princess stuff.\u00a0 Josiah was a bit fussy and developed a really weird rash 1\/2 way through the trip (that mysteriously went away as mysteriously as it began&#8230; we have no idea.\u00a0 Maybe he&#8217;s allergic to hay?) but was otherwise fine.\u00a0 We decided the best option was to take the single jogging stroller for him to ride in, which was a smart idea since we did a lot of walking.\u00a0 I found that I had a better time than normal since we took our time and I was excited to show Chloe all the fun, whimsical things.\u00a0 Plus we enjoyed some ridiculously expensive but delicious food (pickles, chocolate covered pecans, turkey legs, funnel cakes, etc&#8230; ) and food makes me happy.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures from our adventure!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_5585\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0063.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5585\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5585 \" title=\"IMG_0063\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0063-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0063-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0063-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim and Chloe getting a giant pickle from our favorite &quot;pickle guy&quot; who&#39;s there EVERY year!   \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5587\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0068.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5587\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5587 \" title=\"IMG_0068\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0068-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0068-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0068-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chloe and Josiah in front of the Camel and Elephant.  She was too scared of it to look directly at me... and Josiah wasn&#39;t sure what the big deal was all about.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5588\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0070.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5588\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5588 \" title=\"IMG_0070\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0070-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0070-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0070-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We tried to get a picture closer to the elephant, but Chloe was not fooled!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5586\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0064.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5586\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5586\" title=\"IMG_0064\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0064-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0064-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0064-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josiah and the sheep had a stand-off<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5589\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0076.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5589\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5589\" title=\"IMG_0076\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0076-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0076-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0076-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chloe and I enjoyed browsing through the tiara&#39;s!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5590\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0077.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5590\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5590 \" title=\"IMG_0077\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0077-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0077-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0077-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chloe got to choose one thing--and after the seeing everything she decided on a butterfly wand.   She loves it!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Tim &amp; I took the kids to the Renaissance Festival here in town.\u00a0 We had been given 2 free tickets and we discovered that the kids would be free&#8211;so why not?\u00a0 Chloe had a fantastic time seeing all of the animals and princess stuff.\u00a0 Josiah was a bit fussy and developed a really weird [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5593,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/5593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}