Dickens Christmas Fair
Over the weekend, a few of us checked out the Great Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco. It’s sort of like a Renaissance Faire but with a Victorian Christmas theme. Yeah, it’s a little hard to describe. But they have a lot of cute shops, tasty food, and live entertainment. We got to see Father Christmas, a few chimney sweeps, and even Queen Victoria herself. But the strangest costumes belonged to the people who came dressed in steampunk outfits:
December 8th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I live in Dickens’ birthplace – they’re a bit obsessed with him around here. They even have a Dickens “Experience Centre” – ugh!
http://www.dickensworld.co.uk/
December 23rd, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Wow, and I thought it was just us Americans that does stuff like that.