robin hood festival

we decided to go to sherwood forest with the skinners one day. we had seen that the annual robin hood festival was on but foolishly thought it wouldn't make much difference. how wrong we were! it was absolutely packed and we had to count kids every two minutes to make sure we hadn't lost any! but we did have lots of fun, there were so many things to see.

jugglers and musicians

this guy and his wife were experts on ways of living back then, especially how to deal with rats which ethan and josh were fascinated by!

dancers. obviously. not sure how authentic they were, but it was entertaining. the girls loved it and would have watched for hours. just goes to show the differences between them and the boys!

we saw the evil sheriff of nottingham. who was actually very obliging about posing for photos. thats obviously the side you don't normally get to see ;o)

he'd been fighting with the good guys here - but they didn't stick around to be photoed for long. much too butch and tough i suppose.

we got moved aside for these guys to pass. to be fair the man is doing quite a job pulling that thing single-handed and i'm not surprised he didn't want to hang around for long. she was just clearing the way for him with her flute.

one of the side attractions was this mutant woman with two heads and extra limbs. no, wait, its just linda and isaac. cute though!

liv couldn't resist the urge to climb a tree...

so of course ty has to copy.

there was loads going on- battles and story telling, falconry and archery. it was interesting and fun - all the more so because it was unexpected. worth another visit next year - but this time we'll go prepared!