I enter the event site and a group of string musicians are tuning and getting ready to play. One is adjusting his shirt and talking to another band member while another is tuning his guitar and playing with the pedal under his foot. I pass a table with a purple cover and 2 girls sitting there. As I pass I hear,"Sir, would you like to try our salsa?" I double back and grab a small plastic cup with a sample. I devour it and continue on. At the next booth I run into my next door neighbors Doug and Patty. They're running a table for their tattoo shop. They look distressed and are still setting their booth up. It's very windy and their tent is shaking pretty bad. Patty tries to holds it still and I grab it while Doug weighs the posts down with dumbells. It works and we break. Patty says she's going to see her mom at another booth she heads off and I say bye to Doug. As I continue down locust a girl at the herbalife table hands me a flier. Next to them is a tent with group of medieval knights and maidens getting ready to put on a display. A male sits in his folding chair holding a styrofoam plate and eating pizza. Another male is putting on gear while telling a story to 5 other knights chill around him and listen.
I walk past a booth with a white board sitting on a table. A male in his 30's stops me and asks me to make up a word and write it on the white board. I'm not really devoted to the task and have no idea what the point is so I write "Gerdazzle benazzle". I carry on. As I continue towards the end of locust I see an older man, appearing to be in his mid to late 60's, painting cartoon like portraits. He studies his work carefully while watching people walk by his booth. Three females step into his booth to check his work out. As I walk away I see two males in their 40's buying nachos. One is enjoying his plate of nachos while the other waits by the food truck. He looks hungry and impatient.
4:18
2 girls walk by with a puppy on a leash. They seem to be leaving in a hurry. 2 males students throw a football in the middle of the event, despite the passersby in their vecinity.
A man and woman in their 30s
Walk with 2 toddlers and a baby as they munch on some food they bought. "Would you like to enter a raffle?" a woman asks the father as they walk by. 3 females and one male hoola hoop near where the guys are throwing the ball.
3 female students and a male gather and chat as they eat brisket sandwiches.
4:38
The people dressed as knights begin to have styrofoam sword battles. A crowd gathers to watch them. A girl on her bike is at a food truck ordering a sandwich.
4:49
There hasn't been much difference in activity. Just a lot of people walking and eating
I'm getting hungry. Might as well grab a sandwich while I'm here. There are two men one in their 40's, the other in his late 20's early 30's assembling bbq sliders while 2 females hand them out. They ask if I want brisket or pulled pork. I'm good on the pork, "Brisket, please."
As I walk away from the brisket table a long line of about 20 people has formed behind me.
Good timing.
A woman helps her baby step off the sidewalk to go to a booth. He's about 18 months old and is barely walking on his own. Hes wearing a pretty sick black and neon green hoodie. Can't even talk and he's already winning.
I sit on a rail to enjoy my sandwich and continue observing.
Two male students, one with a bike, the other with a longboard sit beside my rail. They have sandwiches and are laughing about various things and people in the vicinity.
I have class in 10. I better head out.
As I walk out I'm greeted by Nima, a foreign exchange student from Iran, who I met over the Summer. Hes with his girlfriend who complains there isn't more free food. They carry on and I make my way out of the event.
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