Fairplay Days.

Last Saturday/Sunday was Fairplay Days (they have a jousting tournament and a car show), and Sunday happened to be my Dad's day off work. So after church, my family decided to have a picnic at a park close to our church, and then head to the park? Ruritan? Whatever. I can't remember what it was...I was tired, okay? :P

It was quite interesting...I had never seen jousting (in real life) before, and I wasn't sure what to expect. I thought maybe they would be dressed up in armor and 2 people would be charging towards each other with big long sticks. :D

I asked Dad if it would be like that, and he laughed at me. He said that if I wanted to see that, I would have to go to a Renaissance fair.

Turns out that this jousting was different from the kind I was thinking about. :D

All you had to do is get the stick-thing through the little tiny metal ring.

Three times in a row.

While riding a horse.

Oh, and it had to be done in under 9 seconds.

Easy, right?

Ha! I wouldn't be able to do it...

Athough, I might want to try it sometime because it looked fun.

It was hard to photograph the horses when they were moving so fast, but I managed to get a few decent photos and wanted to post them. :)

I think the photo below is my favorite of the jousting.

I love how the horse looks...

And here is a picture of Kim watching the horses. :)

Did I mention something about the car show?

Umm, yeah...by the time we went to see the cars (after the tournament was over) all but two of them were gone. :'( But I took this photo, just because it looked cool and the cars were shiny. :D

Stay tuned...I've got a shoot sometime this week (we're thinking Tuesday). I can't wait!

~Valerie