TN ren Cancelled Sunday MAY 3 -Ticket Update

[renfairephotog]

Just got the call Due too the condition of the faire site and parking lots, faire  has been canceled. It's only the third time in the 25 year history of the faire that it has been canceled.

[renfairephotog]

The parking lots are worse than they were last night.

[Lady Catherine]

what? we dont get to play in the mud today?!?!?!

can someone give the M"Cracks a call? Rose is gonna try vincent. I would hate to roll them out of bed and them get turned away!

[renfairephotog]

I called Nickki. She's calling whoever she has numbers.

[Mixsae]

Yeah, It rained really hard again last night. Stout just called and woke me up. That parking area was bad though. Honestly, I was a little hesitant about wanting to park in it. Highland Manor stage area is in bad shape too as of about 4 pm yesterday. It was very treacherous footing.

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

While it is regretful, WW, Athena, Nickie, and I have plans to play elsewhere!   

Time to crack open the Moet & Chandon White Star, I guess!

[CapnFayeCutler]

Gimli gave us a call around 7, so I think he's letting the M'Cracks know.

[Avidd]

I did inform our visiting friends from the Bristol faire.

[Syrilla]

Thank you all for visiting this weekend and for traveling such distances to come to our festival.  And I am so sorry that all of today's plans were water logged, and I did not get to hang out with you.  I hope that everyone has a safe trip back home.

[Dinobabe]

Boy!  I hope they don't cancel next weekend!
It was muddy but we still had a blast!   We dried out by about 5pm and then we got drenched at 6pm while walking back to the truck!
A good friend and my husband took about 2000 pics between them.  I can't wait to post them!
It was great to finally put some hand shakes with avatars!

[Hibernian]

Arrived at the gate about 1030 to hear the sad news.

To be honest, it made all the sense in the world.  I was told the last 100 people last night ended up needing "tractor help" to get out of the lots. After last night's additional rain I had serious thoughts of asking to park up on the road and just hike in from the front gate.

Many thanks to the cast and family of TNRF for an excellent day on Saturday. I hope the weather improves for the coming weekends and you enjoy a great run this year.

[Chelsy]

I hope this is the worst of what happens this year, and the rest of the weekends are wonderful!

[Dinobabe]

Luckily we had 4X4 drive and just zoomed passed the tractor!
Hope everyone else got out OK.
Looking forward to next weekend!

[CapnFayeCutler]

I too am glad I decided to take the AWD vehicle.. Saw a lot of people getting stuck.

[Mixsae]

I don't have awd or 4 wheel drive but I had a plan and was guaging cars still coming up from the gate area and coasting along at a even speed while trying to remain facing downhill and staying as much on grass as I could see. Opted to avoid the muddy exit and had an opening to get me onto gravel...and then a minivan stopped there. Almost didn't make it but one wheel managed to keep traction enough to get me onto gravel.

Spent the majority of the afternoon at Camino Real with a few regulars. We actually had the backroom to ourself for a good while between the lunch and dinner rush so it wasn't a complete loss of a fair day.

Amazingly enough, I think the periods of rain today were exactly the same as yesterday. Morning ending around 9-10. Picked back up for a bit around mid day and started up again around 5pm. I'm gonna be keeping a close eye on the weather this week and crossing my fingers the field improves for next weekend. I would like to say good job to everyone on the communication chain to get info relayed this morning. I know there was probably a few people that didn't get the message and I'm sure it wasn't intentional but word seemed to come down fairly well and mutliple channels once the decision was made.