Texas Renaissance Festival 2025 – Day 2

I really should have filled the air mattress night 1. Not sleeping on the hard ground made it possible for me to sleep. The is a however… Around 2 AM I woke up and needed to use the port-a-potty. Rolling off the mattress and trying to stand up had my inner quad muscle cramp up. I didn’t scream but I sure wanted to. I’m better hydrated this evening so I’m hoping not to have a repeat event. (Side note… The company that services the potties, cleaned them every morning.) Ok enough of that time for the day…

This morning I decided to dress earlier so as not to miss the opening cannon. Not being in a rush, I looked at some of my fellow camper’s castles.

Some of these are the season pass holders so they get to claim their plot, 2 weeks before the officials open. Some of the clans group up and create their own fifdem.

There is a food truck area in the camp grounds, but I didn’t visit other than to take this picture.

The crowd was much thinner this morning but there was still plenty of excitement. The great wizard Tim was there and the Black Knight queued for entry.

Breakfast was a quesadilla, that was too much for me, so I saved it for lunch.

The place next door to the quesadilla place was making breakfast burritos.

I also only drank root beer, lemonade, and lots of water. I hope the festival will add water bottle refill stations, because it was hard using the water fountains, and I wasn’t going to pay $5 for bottled water. Root beer cost me $5 because of the mug I purchased, normally it would have been $6.

After pausing to eat breakfast, I focused on shows and purchasing items from vendors I scoped out on Day 1. I bought beard products, honey, balsamic vinegar, and some leather bound journals.

The first show of the morning for me was the Washing Wenches, a comedy show with not so subtle enuendos but if you didn’t cheer loud enough they would spin wet towels around and spray the crowd. The crowd cheered.

The second show was a Northman musical group that had some one from the audience to come roll a large 20-sided die to determine which songs they would seem. If you like Nordic folk music then you’d probably enjoy them too.

Show 3 was one by accident, because I went to the wrong small music venue, but the song was good. He too was singing folk songs. He was even one of the featured performances during the closing ceremony.

The next show wasn’t musical, it was a jousting tournament. I was seated in the area that cheered for Spain’s Knight.

After the joust my feet were hurting from stepping on all the rocks so I collected the majority of my vendor items and headed back to camp to switch shoes and change into regular clothes.

With my feet shod in my Crocs, I headed back into the festival. I met 2 fellow campers, that had season passes, and they offered to give me a ride back to the entrance, It seems season pass holders have a special parking area very close to the entrance. They were 2 of the 3 clan members of Mead Hyem(?). Nice to meet helpful people.

The next performance was a troop that had an accordion as the lead singers instrument, but the had a drummer, guitar, bass and a dancer too.

This was one of the liveliest performances I heard. Every song made me want to clap along.

There was time to grab something for dinner before the closing ceremony at the Globe, so I tried The Drunken Chicken, It was pretty good.

The closing ceremony let me know there was a story playing out around me and I was unaware. There are themed performances where the TX Renfaire King makes appearances all leading to this closing act. At some point we learned that King Henry the VIII would be marrying Ann Boeyln and that there is a fairy court.