Day 121: Medieval Faire

 When I was a Freshman in high school, I will never forget our year-long unit study in world history on Medieval times. It was probably my favorite unit study I ever did in school. Once or twice a week we would work on this study, and then the last day was this HUGE "Medieval Faire", where the entire football field of the freshman campus was taken over into a large Middle Ages village, with shops and even a "battle" with a catapault on the football field. 

It's been 24 years and I still remember it. 

I really wanted to do something equally extravagant, but of course there's only two students instead of 300, and I don't have a football field at my disposal. And honestly, I don't have the energy either. But we did our best. 

I had the boys create a "persona" of who they would be if they lived in the Middle Ages and build a tri-fold presentation board on it, complete with self-portrait, job description, house blueprint, shoebox diorama, and a full page story involving "them", AND, a full three course meal that would be appropriate to what was available in the Middle Ages. 

After showing their presentation to their audience (Dad), they got to work on their Medieval Feast! 

Middle Ages Feast:

1st Course: Apple Bread
2nd Course: Whole chicken with potatoes, carrots, and onions
3rd Course: Apple and raspberry cobbler

It was a LOT of work for these guys to cook up not one but three meals on their own, but luckily they had a Raddish Kids recipe for each dish, and they prepared each meal seamlessly. Camden peeled the vegetables and apples, Calen chopped, and they took turns with stirring and prepping. I was pretty proud. 

Their bounty

How Cam sets himself up to peel apples and potatoes

Please appreciate their Star Wars shirts as it's still Star Wars week

Stuffing chickens 

The dinner was delicious. And since it's Sunday Night Family Night, we piled our plates in their feast and played a family game - Castle Panic, of course!

And because it's still Star Wars week and we couldn't stop the tradition of the movie marathon, we stayed up late and watched Return of the Jedi (since we didn't get a chance to yesterday). 

Castles and Death Stars, you can't beat it. 

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