Jousting!

On our anniversary (5 years!) Lincoln surprised me (kids in tow) with an outing to a jousting festival at Hever Castle.

It was really hot and humid and we were in direct sunlight...so we kind of melted while we waited for the knights to come!

The blue knight called all the kids to come to the arena and parade around with "knight" things.

Livvy was really excited....or just really hot!

She was given a head...I didn't even realize that was what she was holding till after! Yuck! Luckily she didn't have any worries about parading it around!

After the parading around the knights rode in on their gorgeous horses all decked out in their armor!

Then some impromptu fighting occurred and we reassured Livvy they they were only pretending. 

Finally the jousting tournament began! It was actually really cool to watch and I was so impressed with the horses and riders! They must have been melting under all that armor! 

Lincoln was so excited to capture this shot of the jousters in action!