Medival Times

Hackbone

If you have one of these in your area you really should check it out. The price of admission gets you a meal and a show. The meal is a chance to eat as the peoples did back then. Meaning no silverware, just your fingers. The menue is soup, chicken, ribs, drink,potato and a desert. (my daughter snuck in some plastic forks, the chicken) The show has a theme and the actors do combat with a fair amount of realism. Only had a point and shoot with me, next time another choice.

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Toshido

It is dinner and a show, and from what I heard it can be pretty entertaining. but do not confuse any of it as real or realistic.
Tableware of various forms is thousands of years old, and (from what I heard) the combat is choreographed stage fighting. Entertaining but not realistic.

I look forward to going myself but for a semblance of realism I will stick to the medieval re enactors.

CyberSteak

Toshido wrote:

It is dinner and a show, and from what I heard it can be pretty entertaining. but do not confuse any of it as real or realistic.
Tableware of various forms is thousands of years old, and (from what I heard) the combat is choreographed stage fighting. Entertaining but not realistic.

Which pretty much describes about 90% of what's on TV or at the video store

Back to the pics and the event. I've been wanting to check this out for a loooooooooooong time. Closest place to us is in Toronto and that's a 2 day drive away. We'll be in the area this summer so maybe...

Thanks for posting the pics. Looks as fun as I anticipate it will be.

Cuties02q

Looks like fun!! We keep meaning to take the kids...

Gringriff

We went to one of these at Myrtle Beach SC, several years back when the kids where like 5 and 8. They really enjoyed it. The show was okay and I really enjoyed the food. Of course we had to buy the toy swords as you exit right into the gift shop. It was good and something everyone should do once but not an every year thing. We also have Dixie Stampede, very similar but with a very light, simplistic, and fun "competition" based on the US Civil War. Thanks for sharing - it brings back happy memories!

Andy

timparker_NikonD60

We went with Friends in July of last year in Dallas, TX. Our friends live about an hour from the location. We got there and I realized I left my battery on the charger back at their house.

I proceded to go out and get a second battery the next day. To my defense, I had just bought my D60 a couple weeks before travelling down there for vacation. It was fun.

Gringriff wrote:

We went to one of these at Myrtle Beach SC, several years back when the kids where like 5 and 8. They really enjoyed it. The show was okay and I really enjoyed the food. Of course we had to buy the toy swords as you exit right into the gift shop. It was good and something everyone should do once but not an every year thing. We also have Dixie Stampede, very similar but with a very light, simplistic, and fun "competition" based on the US Civil War. Thanks for sharing - it brings back happy memories!

Andy