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Contest, Family Adventures

Win Family 4-Pack of passes to the Opening Weekend of King Richard’s Faire -“Escape your reality at THE New England Renaissance Faire”

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King Richards Faire

We are thrilled to once again be invited as guests of The Realm to the 38th Season of King Richard’s Faire. We are also able to host a giveaway of a family 4-pack of tickets to opening weekend to one lucky family here on this blog. There is so much to do at the Faire and we love going there as a family each year. It has become one of our most looked forward to trips. You can see our 2017 visit in the video below and then after that you can enter our giveaway through the Rafflecopter App.

The giveaway is for a Family 4-Pack of Passes to Opening Weekend of King Richard’s Faire on August 31 – September 2, 2019. The Giveaway Ends August 23, 2019. We will need the winner’s address so the tickets can be sent via mail.

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Here are some Insider tips for visiting the Faire:
1. No outside food or beverage is allowed unless cleared by our office first (508-866-5391) but you can bring an EMPTY water bottle to fill out our water bubbler.
2. We DO have gluten-free, vegan and lactose-free menu selections listed on the website here: https://kingrichardsfaire.net/eat-and-drynk/.
3. Carvershire is in the woods… we have bees, tree roots, hot and cold weather, and even rain to contend with. And porto-pottys. Dress and plan accordingly.
4. We are open unless safety is compromised; we then make announcements on our FB page as soon as the decision is made.
5. All costumes are welcome and appreciated… you can rent costumes for all ages and sizes right inside the front gate at Seams Like A Dream! Costumed guests are the majority, not the minority… HINT: this is a “Fantasy Faire” not a medieval re-enactment like Plimouth Plantation…anything goes! We see it all… from Monty Python, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, DC/Marvel superheroes, and all kinds of cosplay… we are more of a comic con than a re-enactment!
6. Box office and food tickets are cash only but most artisans accept Lady Visa and Master Card and AMEX.
7. The woods have no wifi (big site, not enough signal) so you are on your data plan, unfortunately. Plan accordingly – it’s better near the entrance and at the joust. Bring a battery – charging is for the brave knights on horseback, not our guests’ phones.

Family, Family Adventures, Photo-A-Day

The Kids’ First Falmouth Beaches Swim Meet

Swim Meet
Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00221

On the last day on the Cape we had the kids Swim Meet. Each year the Falmouth Beaches hosts a swim meet that pits all beaches against each other. They have broken things down into Small Beaches and Large Beaches. That way the competition is more fair. I participated way back when I was a kid and my Dad still has one of the T-shirts from those years. He wore it to the meet today.

Dad with the kids
My dad sporting the Falmouth heights Swim Meet Shirt from 1988 with his grandchildren who all participated and did well this year.

This was Andrew and Eva’s first time in the competition. We (Allison, Eva, Andrew and I) aren’t a very competitive family (unless you count Monopoly and then it gets viciously competitive) but still Eva felt a lot of pressure. This is very internal because neither Allison nor I put any amount of pressure on her to perform in these sort of things. Eva was nervous mostly because she did not know how the meet would work. She also like to swim the way she swims and having to swim in a competition is much different. However, we encouraged her to just have a good time and enjoy herself. That is all we want from her.

Andrew was far less nervous and he did a very nice job in his events. He came in Second and Sixth in the events that he swam in which included freestyle (2nd) and Backstroke (6th). Eva did Freestlye (4th) and Freestlye Relay (4th) She got to go first for her team which made her nervous and she did give the team a very good position. That, however did not last. But, it is about the experience and the fun. Our beach came in second overall and that is not too shabby.

We celebrated with some ice cream for dinner and then drove home and got dinner at Park Street ale House before heading home.

I did want to also mention that this morning Dad, Andrew and I went kayaking over on Great Pond. I took Andrew in the double and Dad took my kayak. We paddled around for about and hour and had a very nice time.

Andrew Paddling theKayak
Andrew Paddling the Kayak on Great Pond