Hi again!
This week's adventure led to exploring the Chateau de Baux. The chateau is perched on a rocky outcrop with an amazing view of vineyards and olive groves. There was a theme, the medieval times. They were also reenacting the storming of the Chateau de Baux.
As the village of Le Baux de Provence was alive and busy in the morning, we parked down below and walked up through the streets to reach the Chateau. On the way up, we stopped in a few shops selling swords and armour. Unfortunately, none of the chain-mail items fitted me!
The first show we went to was about a troop of medieval singers. Mum was picked out of the crowd as one of the volunteers. The volunteers had to dance, it was very funny.
The next show was an equestrian and bird show. A lady rode a beautiful horse. She had such good control that she could make the horse do any manouvres she wanted! She could make it step backwards, side-ways and make it kneel, bow and dance! A man then entered the ring and pretended to attack the horse from the front. The horse kicked out his front feet as if to hit the man. Also if the man went behind the horse he would kick backwards. He was a very smart horse!
The second part of the show was about birds of prey. There were hawks, eagles, owls and baby birds! The bird handlers smacked meat onto their hand and the birds would fly down to sit on their hands. The birds had leather straps tied to their legs so that when they sat on the bird handler's hand the people could hold on to the bird. My favourite bird was an owl, he had a little white face with a beige coloured body.
The biggest show of the day was about to start; the attack on the Chateau! As the show started, about five men walked up the stairs to the chateau. Everybody thought they were religious visitors because they were wearing black capes over their armour. Suddenly the men pulled off the capes and started fighting with the good guards of the castle. Lots of other warriors from the bad army ran out to help. We were sitting in a grandstand and down below us the good team were firing canons and catapults! Don't worry, the rocks from the catapult weren't real! The bad team took over the castle but the good warriors' leader was challenged to a dual, one on one with the other leader. They fought and the good leader won! So the good warriors reclaimed their castle.
When the show was finished, we walked around the medieval camps and there was a big battering-ram. Sean and I went inside the triangle roof structure that the ram hung off and we sat on it.
On the way back into town there was a man and he was letting children try on all his armour and chain-mail. Sean tried on the heavy chain mail coat! It looked very heavy! I just lifted a very long sword. It weighed a ton!!
I had an awesome day!
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