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| - First and last year attending this event. Now, keep in mind, we all had a discussion before opting to take in this event that we would encounter some lines but we were mentally prepared for the adventure...
We found some free parking near the event and opted to stroll down the street rather than pay anywhere from $5.00 - $20.00 to park, yes some places were gouging people for $20.00!!! The general admission line was long but we only stood there for about 10 minutes. It cost $15.00 per adult to get into the event so that went smooth.
Arrived in time to walk around and discover that unless you were a family with small kids that enjoy blow up slides and jumpy houses or you want to stand in ridiculous lines to get a balloon animal or free face painting, there's nothing else to do except sit in the grass a listen to music, seriously, NOTHING else to do. We spent $15.00 to sit and listen two bands but okay we thought we'd make the best of it and had high hopes of hearing some great music.
We walked by a long line which was to get tickets to purchase food/drinks then saw more long lines at the food booths of which there were very few. Now, they advertised online that this event would have various food trucks, we saw zero food trucks at the event, NONE so false advertising there folks.
Thank goodness we had the smarts to go eat and have a beer and water before entering the event, otherwise, we would have gone hungry and had nothing to eat nor drink OR we would have spent almost 2 hours in line to get food/drink tickets and then more time in line for food or drinks!
The country band, Junction 10 was great, best part of the event. We put down a blanket and sat in the stage area and listened. They also advertised that high sitting lawn chairs would have to be placed in an area further away from the stage but that low profile lawn chairs would be allowed. Come on people, lets be polite and not bring in your big-ass lawn chairs and make it impossible for those of us who brought a blanket or low profile chair to be able to see the stage and bands. Of course, the event did not enforce the high-profile chair rule and people sat right in front with their high chairs making it impossible for many patrons to be able to view the show, again false advertising by the event.
One of the people in a group next to us went to get food (they had already stood in the long lines when they got there to get tickets) and said it was a long time waiting just to get them. We thought we'd gauge how long it took them to get food and if we wanted to leave our spot in the grass to stand in line for tickets then food. He was gone for 1 hour and came back with 2 sandwiches - WOW!
Then the balloons started blowing up and what another disappointment. I've been to balloon events around town and this was lame! Only a few standard balloons I think there were 6-7 of them, not the really cool ones of animals, faces, etc...just plain ole balloons (with the exception of 1). Then this female emcee appeared on stage and would shout over the speakers "lets flicker the balloons" at which time the balloons would blow the gas and fire into their stagnant balloons for a few seconds and that was it, woo-hoo!
Then the band we had high hopes for, an Eagles tribute band was on stage touted online by the event to be "one of the finest eagles tribute bands in the country"... NOT and yes folks, once again, false advertising. Seriously, did the event planners actually listen to this band beforehand?!?!?!? This band known as South of Winslow was a complete joke! They paid no tribute to the Eagles because they sounded nothing like them. They were a disgrace. They were out of tune vocally, they missed numerous guitar parts in the songs and played every song off key. We decided that it was time to go and kiss our $15.00 per person good-bye and go get something to drink since we'd been sitting there for a few hours with nothing to drink or eat!
As we left, the lines to get onto the shuttle buses were - you guessed it - LOOONGGG and people were not too happy. For any of you reading this review in 2017 trying to decide if you should go, save your money and go do something else. The event planners touted online for the 2016 event that it was better with the "Whats New This Year" tag line. Don't fall for it. The event is poorly planned and executed. After 7 years, this should be running much more efficiently and they haven't figured it out by now so save the aggravation and your hard earned money!
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