Food Festival...

Today I went to one of our local Food Festivals. It was a lot of fun and the day was blissfully warm and sunny. One of the nice things about the Festival is that it's held right across the street from the Farmers Market. After strolling through the market and gathering up a few things, Asian pears, strawberries, carrots and tomatoes, I was able to leave it all at the Veggie Check-in area, where it was placed in a refrigerated truck. What a fabulous idea!!

I stood in line to get my food tickets and bought $10 worth because I was so excited to get a burger (sans bun and condiments) from the Mobile Cafe, that was until I got there and discovered to my dismay, that they weren't serving burgers today, but Sopes-made from corn :-( Fine, I thought, 'surely there's something else I can have'. I set off to wander the food booths and found...well, nothing I could eat. Yep, big disappointing food moment. They had pizza being baked/cooked in a stone pizza oven, which was gorgeous, and very popular. They had lots of stuff with cheese on it, pre-made salad fixin's with vinegar dressings that were already on the salad, and pies. While some of the pies were Gluten-free, they were neither dairy-free or sugar-free. Hurumph! I was getting very hungry and a little frustrated, since I had planned on having lunch down there. I went back to the ticket booth and explained the problem. Fortunately, they were very nice about it and I was able to sell my tickets to the next person in line.

On the walk home I stopped into a restaurant that serves delicious, non-dairy shakes and got myself a Strawberry Shake. While it wasn't quite a delicious burger, it did hit the spot and I thoroughly enjoyed drinking it on the warm walk.

A mobile pizza oven. It was very popular.

And there was a petting zoo! How cute are these guys?!