medieval times

hmonkey · November 2014

yes, i want to talk about medieval times.

1) it is tres expensive. omg $60+ AMERICAN for an adult? i better die at 40 of cholera for that money.

2) there is a vegetarian meal. wtf. it's hummus with bread and veg, and then the main is some kind of bean stew.

3) i would sneak in chopsticks. it's authentic; chopsticks have been around for thousands of years.

4) i think baby mo would love it. just have to figure out a good date, and how to bring this up to dh.

has anyone gone and was it worth it? i look forward to meeting the royal court, who are probably part-time musicians and carpenters from the northern suburbs.

VarunaTT · November 2014

3. Wasn't it mostly finger foods, slurping, and knives for medieval times? The Borgias told me forks were somewhat rather recent inventions.

I would go; I adore stage combat and jousting.

mrsconn23 · November 2014

My stripper/escort cousin was proposed to there by her first fiance. I think the guy had the ring on the end of his lance or something, from how the story was told.

That's all I got on MT.

0Face · November 2014

I went in h.s. It was "meh" but I was also an unimpressable 15 y.o. I do remember greasy food and "cute" knights.

HTH!

Heffalump · November 2014

OMG, DH took me to the one in Schaumburg on a date once. It was early in our relationship, and it was a surprise. I was surprised, all right. And then I didn't want to pose for the photo they make you take when they let you in. I spent the evening contemplating whether he had the kind of judgment I looked for in a boyfriend, and he (I assume) wondered if I was more of a bitch than he realized for not wanting to pose with the fake king and the cardboard backdrop.

Thank you so much for posting this. I hadn't thought of that in years, and now the first thing he's going to hear when he walks in the door tonight is "Remember that time you took me to Medieval Times on a date?!"

0Face · November 2014

*guffaw* @Heffa

NOLABridesmaid · November 2014

Heffa, this might call for a sexy time reenactment for your anniversary.

hmonkey · November 2014

i love that i think it might be a good time for a 4yo and mr. heffa thought it would be a good time for an adult woman.

this reminds me of the time that white girl @ work told me all proud that her husband organized his dresser with the bottom drawer for his shorts and pants and the top drawer for his shirts. we do the same thing for baby mo so he doesn't get confused.

*Barbie* · November 2014

we were thinking of going to MT in Dallas, but decided not to, as it started at 8pm, so not great for a 4yo who had been travelling all day.

Check the website, you can probably find some sort of discount/promotion

my sister and i went to the Vegas version of MT at Excalabur, in October. We got some sort of deal on the tickets so it was less than $40/ea. The food was decent - a tomato basil soup, a whole cornish game hen, steamed veggies, several small baked potatoes, a roll, and some sort of apple tart. pop was included. the show was shorter than I thought it would be (only ~75 minutes) and a little cheesy, but they did have some good pyrotechnics.

DK took Wolverine and I to a similar style dinner show in Cali that was pirate themed. That one was better - the food was on par (although you did get to select from a few different entrees), but the show was about 2.5 hours long and had singing, dancing, pyrotechnics, acrobatics, aerialist tricks - not on the level of Cirque du Soleil, but a step above the Vegas MT.

Summary - it is expensive, but it would be fantastic entertainment for kids. for the "free-ish" version, try a ren fair.

kerbohl · November 2014

I'm a medievalist, so I love and hate MT. No one fights with a flail in a real fight like they do . . . but I do really enjoy it. Only go if you get a deal, though - they are common enough. I'm on the birthday mailing list, so I get to go for free (with one full-priced adult ticket) for the month of November.
In Canada, they do a dressage show with Lipizzaner horses, which I love because of pretty horses doing amazing things.

larrygaga · November 2014

I went when I was a kid and I loved it. I would go back if I had kids to take, but I wouldn't go by myself with just adults.

Heffalump · November 2014

YOU GUYS: as promised, I brought it up last night, and not only did DH maintain that it was "a completely legitimate place for a date," but he also asserted that I "didn't know how to have fun yet." And here I thought it was because he was still kind of country back in those days, but no, apparently if he had it to do all over again, he would stand by his choice. o_O

He did remind me that for our next date, he took me to a nice restaurant (with utensils, even!) and then to the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. (This is back when it was still in Lincoln Park.) We think we saw Much Ado About Nothing, but aren't 100% positive. I'm going to keep that memory and do my best to reinter the Medieval Times one.

FTR, I think Baby Mo will love it.

AuntFlo · November 2014

I second Barbie's suggestion to do a Ren Fair, if you're not sure about laying down that much money for the MT experience. Not that a Ren Fair will be much cheaper, but there are more options. And you can totally leave the joust to see something else if BabyMo decides he can't handle the exploitation of the horses.

hmonkey · November 2014

no ren fairs. i went to a college that had a very active society for creative anachronism group, and i wish plague and famine on all of them.

0Face · November 2014

*chuckle* No middle of the road dislike for our Hmo.

hmonkey said:

no ren fairs. i went to a college that had a very active society for creative anachronism group, and i wish plague and famine on all of them.

*Barbie* · November 2014

AuntFlo said:

I second Barbie's suggestion to do a Ren Fair, if you're not sure about laying down that much money for the MT experience. Not that a Ren Fair will be much cheaper, but there are more options. And you can totally leave the joust to see something else if BabyMo decides he can't handle the exploitation of the horses.

yes - TURKEY LEGS!!!

The TX ren faire has a lot of good shows - comedians, birds of prey, a guy with flaming whips, the typical jousting/melee show, acrobats, etc. From what I've heard, other ren fairs are similar. The food is also fantastic.

We've gone 3/4 years that we lived here and had a blast. We even wore costumes last year (DK was a ninja, I was a "wench", Wolverine was Godzilla.) Other than the staff actors, nobody takes the whole historical accuracy thing too seriously.

PMeg819 · November 2014

I'm still a little salty that DH wouldn't take me there in college. We'd go to IKEA in Schaumberg but apparently MT was too much and he refused to do it.

I say go for it. I think a 4 yo would love it.

mrsconn23 · November 2014

Hmmm...so maybe we need a Heffa/PMeg husband swap?

Heffalump · November 2014

mrs.conn23 said:

Hmmm...so maybe we need a Heffa/PMeg husband swap?

Either way, they won't be able to manage the kids without PTO.

lacqueredlover · November 2014

It's SO much fun! OMG I love it haha. You can always find deals if you sign up for their newsletter (I've never paid more than 30 a ticket.)

We brought my FI's kids last year and they LOVED it! My FI is a vegetarian and loved the meal. The kids were obsessed (at the time his daughter was 4 and his son was 6.) I might have had more fun than everyone else haha but it was a blast!

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