Monday, September 19, 2005
Day Tripping: KiteFest 2005
The 7th Annual Mix 96 KiteFest is purportedly Northern California’s BIGGEST and BEST FREE family festival. This homage to the glory, magic and wonder that is all things kites and kite-flying claims to have OVER 20,000 square feet of kites! I think I am looking most forward to the free kite making and flying lessons, but there are also stunt kite displays and a jelly belly kite candy drop.
Look at 'em go!
Now I know what you are thinking: “Gee, Alison, this sounds okay, but what kinds of non-kite entertainment can I expect?” One part of the festival is called FUN ALLEY. It has the word “fun” right in the name, so you know it will be great.
They might let us do this!
Plus, there will be LIVE MUSIC all day featuring some band no one has ever heard of, but we all know that Mix 96 is synonymous with quality music. There will also be a Mix 96 booth where we can pretend like we listen to their station so we can get free stuff.
We can skip this.
There is also a PET AREA where there will be Frisbee dogs, a SAFETY AREA that we can skip, a KIDS CORNER where they might let us go on the bounce house, and a HOME AND GARDEN AREA where we can buy crap we don’t need.
Frisbee Dogs!!!
And, you guys, you might not believe it, but they have ALL YOU CAN EAT ROOT BEER FLOATS at the Root Beer Garden. That is right, for just $2.96 or $9.96 per family, you can gorge yourself on root beer floats (or probably just vanilla ice cream if you are lame like Jody).
Yummy!
This all goes down this Saturday at the Elk Grove Regional Park from 10:00am to 5:00pm. I say we get there at 9 so we don’t miss a second of the awesomeness!
