I am back in Texas and we spent yesterday at the Texas Renaissance Festival in Plantersville. It is normally a two hour drive from our home. But yesterday, when we were about 12 miles from the festival, the traffic slowed down to a crawl. And it crawled very slowly. It took a hour for us to drive the remaining 12 miles. Total driving time: 3 hours.
Parking was remarkably easy considering the large volume of traffic and people. There were thousands of people there. I have never seen it so crowded. I looked up the media fact sheet for the festival and they average about 23,000 people per day through the gates. It is the largest Renaissance fair in the world.
It honestly would have been so much more enjoyable if it hadn't been so incredibly crowded. The weather was cool and perfect. The theme for the festival this weekend was Highland Fling and I was hoping for lots of great bagpipe music. Unfortunately, we only heard bagpipes once. And for heavens sake, don't try the warm mead to drink. It was simply awful. But the apple dumplings were tasty.