{"id":2802,"date":"2011-05-08T21:50:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T01:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2011-05-08T21:50:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T01:50:06","slug":"moms-renfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"Moms! RenFest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY MOTHER&#8217;S DAY!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-QJB9vmQ\/0\/S\/img_4280-S.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><br \/>\nWe had an awesome time taking Kathy to the Rennaissance Festival today!<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jH0Rv-YS8Mk<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-tggLscJ\/0\/S\/img_4281-S.jpg\" alt=\"r\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-J6FZRNM\/0\/S\/img_4282-S.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was really cool being transported back in time.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of nice smells!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-DjMZKTM\/0\/S\/img_4285-S.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I bought this Caduceus.  I like the healing symbol.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-HS9fLpt\/0\/S\/img_4291-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The blown glass was amazing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-pZ3jsX4\/0\/S\/img_4292-S.jpg\" alt=\"g\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I especially liked the presentation by the actor playing Leonardo da Vinci&#8211;one of my heroes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-MVM544Q\/0\/S\/img_4318-S.jpg\" alt=\"dv\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you like this version of the Mona Kathy?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-Jww4qb2\/0\/S\/img_4310-S.jpg\" alt=\"k\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We even had an audience with Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.  I was the audience member who guessed who there were.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-J6qNpHm\/0\/S\/img_4311-S.jpg\" alt=\"ha\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the birds of prey were super cool!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never seen a Condor before. Wow!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-WNVxXVH\/0\/S\/img_4324-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><br \/>\nI love Peregrin Falcons&#8211;the fastest animal on the planet.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-pxHn7n7\/0\/S\/img_4327-S.jpg\" alt=\"p\" \/><br \/>\nThis is actually a hybird Peregrin and Gyr falcon.  <\/p>\n<p>It was amazing to see it swooping in out of the sky.  Woosh!<\/p>\n<p>Had a lot of fun watching people throw tomatoes at this guy.  He was really fun insulting the people throwing stuff.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-XtGzZ74\/0\/S\/img_4319-S.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\nWe missed having Ashley along.  She is studying for two finals tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>It was good to be with my brother Bill and his girlfriend Debora.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-SKm7D5t\/0\/S\/img_4301-S.jpg\" alt=\"bd\" \/><br \/>\nI liked hanging out with Merlin!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-6c5xBC9\/0\/S\/img_4335-S.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The swords were cool!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-34qV9mm\/0\/S\/img_4340-S.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nJesse saw this Swallowtail Butterfly today.  I loved the bottom parts of the wings!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Rennaissance-Festival\/i-z356TDz\/0\/S\/img_4272-S.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY MOTHER&#8217;S DAY! We had an awesome time taking Kathy to the Rennaissance Festival today! httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jH0Rv-YS8Mk It was really cool being transported back in time. Lots of nice smells! I bought this Caduceus. I like the healing symbol. The blown glass was amazing. I especially liked the presentation by the actor playing Leonardo da Vinci&#8211;one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}