The Corcoran Gallery in DC had a Middle Ages festival to coincide with a special exhibition on Joan of Arc, and since we're studying that time period in history, the girls and I headed down there today.
They had all sorts of neat crafts-we made swords.
The girls got their faces painted, too.
We met "Queen Elizabeth", and they had a knighting ceremony.
They had a magic show, minstrels, medieval dancing, and games, but the number one, far-and-away best part of the day was......JIM WEISS!!!!!
He's a fantastic storyteller, and has many CD's available of his retelling of Greek myths, fairy tales, history and audio books. The girls were enthralled, and it was very exciting to meet the man behind the voice of the stories we have enjoyed for years now.
We went to both of his storytelling sessions!And...it might snow Monday! A whole inch. Whoopee.
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They have some fun stuff to do up there, no? I love the face painting :)
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