Hey, that's the one near me. I was told to go, but I couldn't due to moniez and time issues. Keep posting these stories, it helps me know what I missed!
Dude the first weekend was two for one on tickets! If you do go obviously I'm in the Queen's Guard (red and black ftw) and I go by the name Allen Claybrook (Yeoman Claybrook) at faire. Except the weekend of Oct 1st as I'm forced to miss that weekend due to a wedding I have to attend.
One of my other favorite moments of opening weekend is we had the grand idea to play towers out in front to entertain the people standing in line, one yeoman managed to make an impossible shot with a hammer and left half the tower leaning like 30 degrees sideways from the more or less straight bottom half. Think giant janga played with weapons, no touching. We've had a variety of things used anywhere from swords, hammers, tankards, a boot, even a handkerchief at one point.