Where Everybody Knows Your Name

It's today! It's today! It's today! HUZZAH! It's today!

We finally get to go to the Bristol Renaissance Faire today! Chuck and I rarely miss a weekend, but we had good reasons this year; we were with our family in Utah celebrating the marriage of our youngest to his sweetheart. Now we're back; HUZZAH! And ready to go to the faire.

Chuck asked me last week if there were people I was looking forward to seeing at faire. Oh, my goodness, yes! So many faces I hope to see. So many hugs I hope to get. So many smiles I hope to capture. So many friends I have not seen since the last day of the season last year. 

WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME

Making your way in the world today

Takes everything you got

Taking a break from all your worries

It sure would help a lot

Wouldn't you like to get away?

Sometimes you want to go

Where everybody knows your name

And they're always glad you came

You want to be where you can see

The troubles are all the same

You want to be where everybody knows your name.

You want to go where people know

The people are all the same

You want to go where everybody knows your name

(Gary Portnoy, Judy Hart-Angelo)

At this very moment I'm listening to the theme from Cheers, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name." That is how faire feels to me. Of course, most folks don't know me from Adam, but the friends who do make me feel so special. The Bristol Renaissance Faire is THE happiest place on earth to me. 

I was going to make a little Instagram post featuring some of my favorite faces from faire. Y'all. I just can't. There is no way ten little pictures can show the faces of all the people who make me smile behind my camera every summer weekend. 

So here is an humble attempt to share some of my favorite captured smiles from previous years. I cannot wait to see our friends! And to make new ones!

If you ever visit the midwest in the summer, you really should try to visit the Bristol Renaissance Faire. You'll discover for yourself what a wonderful place it is to spend summer weekends, and you just might happen to make new friends who feel like old friends, like we did.

I love this human so much.