BTW where are those beautiful buildings?
They are actually "fake" buildings. The Renissance Fair in Arizona runs for two months out of the year in a small town in the center of the state. All the building stay up all year though. THey are all mostly just store fronts, even though from the pictures they look big then are really more of a fancy patio, the bottoms are fully open and there are little stores and different kinds of vendors in there.


How tall was the person is costume?
I'd guess around 10' tall, I'm only 5'1" and he really was about twice my height, it hurt my neck to look up at him!