A day of feasting...

Jeffrey's been studying medieval times the last couple of weeks in history. This week, one of the activites he was suppsed to do was to plan and give a medieval feast. We did it on a pretty small scale, but it was still lots of fun! Welcome to our feast....



First, step over the guard dog! :-)

Receive salt as a gift to those attending the feast.

Let the host wash your hands. (The boys really liked this part!)

The first part of the meal was apples covered with cinnamon and sugar served on "trenchers". Trenchers were essentially very stale biscuits that served as plates. Jeffrey made the trenchers three days before the feast, so yep they were really stale. Mission accomplished! :-)

Between courses the guests were supposed to entertain the crowd. Here's Jeremy playing a medieval tune on his saxophone.

And Jackson singing along, like he always does when Jeremy plays his saxophone. Too bad this one's not a video. It's hilarious to hear him "sing" along!

Next was turkey and cheese, again served on the trencher.

Before the next course, Jonathan read a poem out of "Lord of the Rings".

Ok, vanilla pudding for the last course. I didn't make them eat this one on the trencher. Actually, I certainly would have, I just didn't think of it in time!

And then at the end of the meal, the guests are supposed to eat the trencher. YUCK! I made everyone take a bite, but didn't make anyone eat the whole thing. Disgusting!

Well, these guys like the trenchers!

That's pretty medieval, right! Except I guess back then, these guys would have been living in the house with us. Oh, well, times change!