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My last visit to my favorite place on the planet this season. Nothing like a big pile of bignets fresh out of the fryer! What is your favorite dish from ORF? Let us know in the comments below! Our family really enjoyed the Ohio Renaissance Festival yesterday! The tomato soup was outstanding. I drank the whole thing.

The chicken was falling right off the bone and melting in my mouth. The ribs, a potato…the dessert was an apple turnover. Good stuff. Williams: Justin and I were talking about how good the food was. We just went at it like barbarians. Hyland: There was no silverware.

We had to sip our tomato soup right out of the bowl. Everything was with your hands, so it took you back to medieval times, really. Warzycha: The food was good. Some of the guys were all over the place, but I kept it together. Williams: When we were done, we got a wet-nap. Gehrig: We were in the second row, right by the entrance where all of the knights come in. Slowly but surely the show starts. First they brought out the horses and the horses started doing their thing.

They said how in medieval times, the horse played a huge role and was the trusted right hand man for the knight. Those horses were doing some crazy stuff , dude. They were jumping around on their hind legs, bowing, running around in between each other, and all sorts of stuff. Williams: Then they had a falcon doing figure-8s and flying around the arena, which was pretty cool.

There was a guy in the middle and he would whirl this little bird looking thing and the falcon would fly off over the crowd and then start dive-bombing this guy. That went on for about 30 seconds and then he left the bird up there and the falcon attacked it and landed right in the middle there. It was pretty cool.

Gruenebaum: They had a bunch of horse dancing and things that were more of a visual aesthetic, I guess you could say. Gehrig: The king and queen sat right above the entrance. It was legit stadium seating, and the middle was a dirt pit where all this stuff goes on. Then the knights came out on their horses after they were introduced. The guy looked like a bad-assed dude. We were pumped for him. Long hair, muscular…it was incredible. Withrow: Apparently it was a necessity to have ridiculous s rock hair.

These guys were perfect for this. Yellow Knight Photo by Justin Meram Gehrig: After the introductions and horses, they started doing skills competitions, like jousting rings and stuff like that. They ride their horse and have to put their joust through these rings. The yellow knight was flawless, of course.

They also did a relay between the three knights on our side and the three knights on the other side. Our side won. All signs were pointing to victory, so we were getting more and more pumped up. Meram: In the skills competition, the yellow knight knocked it out. Williams: Of course the yellow knight killed it. They did a jousting thing with some rings and then they did a spear competition where you ride your horse and throw a spear at the target. Then they went to the jousting and all hell broke loose in the yellow knight section.

Soon it became evident that even the other opposing knights themselves had come to recognize and spurn the black and yellow section. However, the knights themselves could feel their support truly making a difference.

Gehrig: It went on from skills to battles. The premise was that the winner of the Medieval Times tournament would fight this knight that came from the outer lands from outside the castle, which they portrayed as some barbarian guy who came over and starting talking crap to the king. Warzycha: I just thought they were going to ride around on horses. Gehrig: The knights all fought each other, 1v1, in kind of a like a tournament.

This was combat. They would joust each other, but once they got to ground, it was combat. Gruenebaum: They start with a joust, and then with some below-average acting, one of the guys gets knocked off about ten seconds after he gets hit. Then he does a nice little roll and it turns into a ground battle with various weapons.

It was still very entertaining despite the below-average acting. It takes some skilled choreography. Gehrig: Some knights would use a sword, some would use a ball and chain, and so on. It was pretty intense. Then they carry that guy off and the next two guys come on. Lampson: It was clear the opposing knights were getting annoyed. The Blue Knight presumably from Montreal went so far as to make gestures to the figurative Knights of Columbus as they heckled him.

No one had ever believed it possible, but not only had the figurative Knights of Columbus managed to rattle the Blue knight, they had managed to get him to break character. Williams: Our guy was the yellow knight. Of course with us being ornery kids, we singled out the blue knight because he was looking at us funny. We singled him out right away and rode him the whole night. He kinda bought into it and was having fun with us.

Gruenebaum: The blue knight, we were in his head. He won one of his battles and then turned to us and gave us a nice little smile. Williams: It all started with the ring thing, and we had been making a lot of noise, so when he came by us, he gave us the eye. So Gehrig pointed it out and we all went off of Gehrig. He was the ringleader. So the blue knight would always give us the eye after he did something, but if he messed up, we would let him hear it.

He let his voice be heard throughout the arena, and spurred his companions to voice their support. You hear one guy yell and then you feel like you have to raise your level, so there was competition between us.

We had the blue group across from us and he was talking smack to us. Oh man, it was magical. Meram: We had to get into the moment. I think emotions got the best of us.

We were eight grown men and we were losing our voices. It was a blast. Josh and Eric were really loud, but actually, Withrow was getting really into it. He was getting scary. I think he was part of the whole act. Withrow: Yeah, I guess I was kind of rowdy.

I definitely fueled our rivalry with the blue knight. He was making eye contact with us. At that point, I stood on my chair and yelled across at him. It was a legitimate rivalry. It got to the point in the show where he died. They carried his body right in front of us and we were giving it to him. This little girl wanted more blood than we wanted, which was incredible. We were inspired by the Nordecke. We basically took the Nordecke to Medieval Times.

Gruenebaum: Young Daniel bought me our black and yellow flag. We were proud to wave that flag all night. I mean, the Nordecke is a top-notch fanbase in America, and we just wanted to have a little fun. Devour a mouthwatering four-course meal for royalty, including roasted chicken, garlic bread, sweet buttered corn and more to pair with your festive beverage. Vegetarian options are available as well — Huzzah! Inside our 11th century-style Castles, Medieval Spain will come to life before your eyes.

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