MN Renaissance Festival and Asia Mall for Dinner

We wanted to go to the Renaissance Festival again this year and this time take my parents. I won free tickets at work and unfortunately they had to be used before they had planned to visit.

This would've been a blast with G.G. and Grandpa. But it would still be fun nonetheless.

Now you have to pay for parking or take a shuttle. It made getting onto the festival grounds much quicker, but the line to get into the festival was quite long.

It wasn't too bad of wait and we were in, in no time.

We walked around stopping at anything that caught our eye.

The first time we went was definitely the best, but it's still a hoot. Just expect to spend a lot of money.

We saw a show called Puke and Snot and thought it would be funny. It was all adult jokes that went right over the kids heads.

I mean, it was funny, but not exactly appropriate. We thought it was going to be pirate themed. They even had a folk artist sing sea shanties before the main act. But alas, not a pirate themed comedy show.

Meadow only cared about going to the shops.

I sat outside when they went clothes shopping.

I'm impressed Theo still fits his Link outfit.

Theo picked out a wooden sword that we thought was a bit cheaper than it actually was. Whoops. But he loves it, so who cares.

Meadow wanted elf ears but her ears are so small.

Apparently I wasn't inspired to take a million photos, but Brooke picked up the slack.

Meadows outfit could use a cape.

You know Brooke will just make one.

I could have stayed longer but Scott was ready to go.

Theo was being a little punk, but I was also just kind of done for the day. Would've been more fun with friends and family.

Since we were in the area we stopped at the Asian Mall.

So much for not spending too much money. We ordered food from Legendary Spice and Dim Sum Garden, who share a seating area and kitchen.

A robot brought us our food.

Nothing will be as good as the dim sum restaurant in San Francisco.

Not quite, but we got everything in one place and the green beans were killer.

Then we ended the night with watching When Marnie Was There.

And just like that we were finished watching the complete Ghibli Studios filmography.

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