This year at the Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival, I was looking forward to donning my kilt and escaping away to Morelandshire for 6 weekends of fun and frivolity.  Well, as you know how best laid plans work, not to happen.  Earlier this year my wife and I decided to take an improv classs given by one of the past entertainers (Dave Flick) of the festival and the class was populated with 5 others that have worked at the festival in the past.  Had a great time.  Next we thought, we have this training, do you want to try out working at the festival, sure , why not.  Thus we tried out for simple peasant class parts, just something to get in for free at least.  Well, when all was said and done we are now Rose Singer, the town seamstress and I am Lord High Mayor John Howard.  So my original plans of wearing my kilt have been vanquished and I am getting used to the idea of wearing pants, kinda silly when you actually type that sentence out.  But after the first weekend after  some taunting from my Kilted Friends about becoming English, it has been quite fun.  I am truly looking forward to the next 5 weekends and having a great time.  If anyone is in the area and has not been there yet this year or has never been to the festival, please do come out.  It is a wonderful day outside playing with the cast, shopping at unique shops and enjoying laughter with your friends.  And when in town, say the Lord High Mayor sent you!!

This past weekend were all the St Patrick's Day celebrations in Pittsburgh.  Being the lover of a kilt, I had to wear my new Stewart Black kilt.  It is amazing the attention you grab with a kilt.  It was so much fun also sharing the history and questions people have about kilts.  It was a wonderful time and only wish that these celebrations happened more often.  I will try to find more reasons to wear it and have a great time as I did this past weekend.  I was generally surprised with the acceptance of it and I had very few guys laughing about it, more asking me where I got it and comments on how they wished they had worn one as well.  Well here is to the brave men who wear the kilt.  Slainte!!