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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 1161459" data-attributes="member: 515">Texas has two major renfests every year, and most of the members of my gaming group attend both at least one weekend, and most of us usually go in costume. The Texas Renaissance Festival in Plantersville, north of Houston, runs from the first weekend in October to the middle of November. It is the biggest renfest in the country in terms of acreage, and one of the largest based on attendance. The weekend closest to Halloween, they have a big costume contest. It's something to see. Two of the players in our gaming group had their wedding there a few years back. The whole wedding party was dressed in costume. I was best man. That was a blast. The mead they serve here is quite good. The steak on a stake is good, as are the apple dumplings and the fruit cobbler -- both with ice cream! Scarborough Faire is in Waxahachie, south of Dallas. It runs from mid-April to the first weekend in June. Toward the end of its run, it is too hot to go in costume, at least for me. We always try to go early. This festival has improved greatly in the past few years since they added permanent flushing toilets. Before that it was just porta-johns. When the weather turned hot, the porta-johns would stink to high heaven, lending the fair a too-real medieval touch for me. The mead they serve here is too sweet for my tastes -- I feel like I need a stack of pancakes to pour it over whenever I drink some. This fair has a food booth that serves wonderful Italian food, all made fresh each weekend by the cook. He changes the menu each weekend, so your never sure what he's going to serve, but it's all good. And the fajitas are outstanding. The best dessert is sliced apples covered in caramel sauce. During October Scarborough Faire is remade into Screams, a horror theme park. They have several haunted houses, a haunted hay ride, etc. It's a lot of fun as well. We usually go to that one night during the month. They serve the fajitas then, too.</blockquote>

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