How many years have you been going to MNRF?

[Rage]

I have no idea why I keep starting these...

I started coming to MNRF 26 years ago (this year). I have only missed one year in that time. Only missing 2003 which was the year I got hurt in a car accident.

I was 14 the first year I attended. My Friend's sister took the two of us. LD got to meet her a couple months ago and I had to point out that she was the first person to bring me.

So how long have you been attending and do you have a story about it?

[peggyelizabeth]

after talking to my mom, I've come to realize that I've been going to Fest for  30 years, which means my first trip was before my first b-day.

[MissBubu]

I'm not sure if I started attending in 1981 or 1982. I have a mug from 1982 to prove I was there in that year but as I get older my memory fades. I collect the goblets from the Travelers Booths and have one from each year. Haven't missed a year since I started attending.

My fest story involves a rainy day, the Ratcatcher, and a Mickey Mouse poncho from Disneyworld. He followed me around, praising me as the High Rat Priestess. I think that's when I decided I had to work there at some point.

[Charlotte Rowan]

22 years for me! I've been going every year since we moved up here when I was 4 years old and have not missed a year.

[Random Girl]

This is my 7th season...to the best of my recollection I had only been out twice before that, once when I was 8 and my mom took me and once as a freshman in high school for my drama club.  But yeah I basically started working out here blind.

[Muffin]

I am looking at 12 or 13 years of festyness..  I started going around the time I was 18,(I may have gone once or twice before that, but not on a regular basis. Started getting season passes about 9 years ago,  and then wised up and just got a job working out there!  yay!! 

[Rage]

This is only my second year of season pass and garb. Before that I bought tickets every time I went....What I save in the season pass I make up for in the garb...lol...

[Capt. Bacardi]

This is my 4th year going to Mn, and my 9th season over all. Went once when I was like 12 and then one time in college.

[escherblacksmith]

let's see, I went once in 1991 or 1992 (after I had been in the cities for awhile in college).  Then started working here 1993

1993 CKC Hawker
1994-1995 Fencing booth referee
1996-present MacGregor Games (I think I missed a year in there somewhere).

so, 15 this year.

[groomporter]

When I was 10 I was at the very first "Celebration of Nature, Art, and Life!" (1971) as it was called before it moved from Jonathon, MN tp Shakopee.

I started doing modern fencing demos one weekend a year with the MN Sword Club about 1983 and the the wife I became full time participants in 1989.

[Rage]

When I was 10 I was at the very first "Celebration of Nature, Art, and Life!" (1971) as it was called before it moved from Jonathon, MN tp Shakopee.

I started doing modern fencing demos one weekend a year with the MN Sword Club about 1983 and the the wife I became full time participants in 1989.

Groomporter wins! 37 years (Pre-fest years even).

[groomporter]

I'm old... 

[Rage]

I'm old... 

Its all a state of mind, your only 7 years older than me and I keep getting called a kid. Just remember you have to have the right state of mind or like me be out of yours....

[Will Gamwell]

I was a paytron for six years (went at least twice a year) before I began working at Fest.

This will be my fourth year working at Fest.
2005 - Safety Services Night Crew
2006 - Safety Services Night Crew
2007 - Safety Services Day/Night Crew
2008 - Entertainment

Sean

[Ferret]

When I go to the Feast of Fantasy this year, it will be 24 years in a row of attending at least one feast or more a year, since the Feast started.
The Renaissance Festival out there is really neat too.
Ferret