Renaissance Festival - 2025

Back at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival for 2025, this time on my own dime since Fritz's wasn't involved with the Renaissance Festival this year, and so didn't have tickets to hook us up. Oh well... Anyway...

Very surprisingly, there are two repeats today. First is this woman donning a yellow-orange skirt and crop top. The same one she wore last year, though with a tunic under the top instead of bare. She was walking toward my wife and me trying to balance her walking stick on her head... I thought she looked familiar, and she confirmed it when I showed her last year's photo.

And the other repeat is... Samantha, the jam seller from the City Market last year. She was at the trailer selling jams and honey toward the back of the festival grounds. I didn't recognize her at first until said she recognized me, asking whether I still go to the City Market. And I just responded with "Samantha, right?"

Then later when my wife wanted to watch the jousting tournament, I decided to circle back around the grounds. In part to go back to the jam trailer to get jam and raw honey and, hopefully, a shot of Samantha. And in part to find others to photograph. Samantha was surprised I still remembered her name, though she still remembered me, given we'd only seen each other twice, and it had been since... December the last time we met. Memory can be an interesting thing at times...

So beyond these two, I was periodically taking photos of others who caught my interest, such as this young woman who seemed to get adorably shy when I photographed her:

And along with stopping a few loners, I got some shots of a couple pairs.