The Jones Round Up: 08/01/2011

Monday, August 29, 2011

Percy Jackson Series

I just finished the Percy Jackson series and loved it. I love Greek Mythology and so it was a fun twist on things. I finished book 4 in the afternoon and read book 5 by the following afternoon :) Good Times.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Knights...Knights and more knights :)

we went to a medieval festival today in Manderscheid and it was a lot of fun. Here are the many pictures from our fun day!

This is what we saw going into the Manderschied castle....The boys love snails.

THe music was AMAZING!! This guys could play a ton of different instruments and they were all the old folk music. My favorite was the kind of music you would hear in an movie back in these times with people holding hands and dancing and laughing in a circle jumping up in down in their dance. It was so fun to hear. Loved it.

Yes my two little knights could not escape the festivities without a Sword!

...scabbard and all :)

View from castle ruins

The festivities below...

Top of the picture is where they did the jousting, knight competitions and sword fighting

A cool cellar window

They had kids on stick horses doing the same things as the knights were......A European Rodeo :)

Castle ruins across the way

The birds..... Can't have a medieval fest without a falconer

The knights tents....and believe me some were DECKED out!

Like this one :)

Jousting sticks

A battle scene

The 'Bad' guy.... of course... he's wearing black

Knights!!!

This was just too fun :)

In a way it was like a rodeo...not the bucking horses but horsemen having competitions with one another in events that pertained to fighting while on horseback. There were a lot of things they did. (Some I don't have names for) They acted out a story of the good Manderscheid knights and the bad attitude knights from somewhere else. It was all in German so I got what was going on from the acting. They did jousting and many other events like taking a pointed stick and ramming it into an object (styrophome wrapped in cloth) while full speed on their horses, hitting each other off theirhorses with these big bean bags with ropes to hold onto, and others. It was fun to watch. It was just so neat to actually be in a place where this really happened. It poured rain on us a few times in between spurts of sunshine. Gotta love it!

WE were headed out and I saw this guy and had to take a picture with him. Gideon's not excited at all :)

Nymphs

A rest stop on the way home

Bridger the great Hunter!!

On our way home we found a beautiful place we went and walked around

Monastery Himmerod

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Himmerod

This is the link to information about this monastery I am still learning about. Today there are 13 monks in the monastery Himmerod. It was huge and beautiful.

These are the souveniers we collected while at the festival....

I got myself a leather diary that is Beautiful... I have always liked things like this but when I saw it I couldn't pass it up. The guy who makes them is very talented. I love smelling it...Fresh leather and homemade paper. I love that smell

The boys' scabbards and swords

Friday, August 19, 2011

Wasp's and a hike

Little dude eating a slug :)

A slug we found....Gross!!

Poor Bridger with a wasp sting. There was a wasp flying around the kitchen and it buzzed right in front of his eye and he went to rub his eye and the wasp got caught in-between his face and hand. I was so scared that he actually got stung in his eye but just below it.

This is this morning and it is pretty swollen. He didn't sleep very well last night because of it.

I love this picture of my boys. They truly are each other's best friend!

Gideon didn't want to miss out on the fun and was swinging on the swing and got stung on the arm :( Lets just say the wasps are crazy right now and really aggressive.