Nov 29 2010
Dickens Fair (Video)
Daddy: “Bundle, you know that Mommy and Daddy love you very much, right?”
Lucy: “Yeah, but sometimes you get mad at me and I don’t like that.”
Daddy: “Sorry. Let me know the next time it happens, OK?”
Lucy: “OK.”
— Lucy telling me it how it is
Dickens Fair from Mike C on Vimeo.
Above is a video from our Dickens Fair visit (Jill wrote about this earlier here.) I’ve always been fascinated with time travel. I think this stems from watching stuff like Westworld, Time After Time, and old Star Trek episodes episodes like The City on the Edge of Forever when I was a kid.
Because of this fascination, I was more than willing to accompany Jill while she got her Dickensian geek on. This was about as close to time travel as I’d ever get!
Some info from the Dickens Fair website:
The Great Dickens Christmas Fair: A holiday adventure into Victorian London, partying with hundreds of costumed players in over 120,000 square feet of theatrically-lit music halls, pubs, dance parties and Christmas shops on winding lanes.
It’s a twilight evening in Charles Dickens’ London Town – a city filled with lively and colorful characters from both literature and history. Enticing aromas of roasted chestnuts and hearty foods fill the air. Cries of street vendors hawking their wares ring out above the bustling crowd. Dozens of lamplit shops are filled to overflowing with Christmas presents.
So yesterday Jill, Lucy, and I made our way through the rain and found ourselves at the Dickens Fair. A quick visit to a merry olde ATM machine and we were off, visiting every nook and cranny the fair had to offer. It was great seeing so many people in their spiffy Victorian era clothing, much cooler than the goofy ‘modern’ clothes some of our fellow attendees wore.
Of course, Lucy was the most at ease, making friends, dancing to the music, meeting with faeries and Father Christmas, even taking part on the stage. The kid is fearless that way.
We had so much fun that we’ll probably be attending again before the fair ends on December 19th. I guess getting our collective Dickensian geek on may very well become an annual event for the family.
Nov 30, 2010 @ 22:43:11
To see fair through her eyes makes what we do soo specile! Thanks soo much for sharing.
Nov 30, 2010 @ 23:11:32
Thank you. We had a great time at the fair and will be going again.
Dec 03, 2010 @ 07:25:26
I wish I had been there when she met Father Christmas…I totally missed that! We will have to see if she runs into him again…she keeps talking about it.
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Dec 21, 2010 @ 22:53:19
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