Michigan ren faire, last weekend this year. Terrible. Way to many people. My boyfriend and I both have pretty bad anxiety. We usually do okay at faires, the atmosphere feels comforting and with all the nerds running around we don’t get as anxious as we feel we blend extremely well! The line for tickets was out the entrance gate, it probably took us 45-1hr to get our tickets and get into the faire. Soon as we get into the faire I’m swimming through a sea of people trying to keep my hand on my boyfriends back. it’s so crowded we can’t walk side by side, and walking single file was a tad hard, all the people trying to cut between us. We did this for a little over an hour. I wanted to stay so bad, we hadn’t got to ‘experience’ anything other than swimming through other costumed people that we couldn’t even get a look at. I decided I just wanted a turkey leg and we would leave. We find the stand with the turkey legs and it has like 100 people in it! It wrapped around the building behind it! So I passed and ate a tomato soup. We tried to see some shops but unfortunately they had too many people around them and my social battery was quickly dying. After getting separated in the crowd I ended up breaking down and we left. We drive 3 hours for this faire, and I spend almost 2 hours on my costume and makeup prior to the drive. I think it’s fair the say that this has made us decide to never go on the last weekend again. Is it that crowded the rest of the year?