We had a great time yesterday at the Victory Fall Fest.
We arrived shortly before 3PM, and were quite surprised to see almost all the parking spaces in the sprawling lot taken up, we hopped on a shuttle van from where we parked to the event. I can’t imagine how crazy parking got after that, as the crowds really picked up around 5PM and some of our friends reported having to park on the street.
There were 7 of us that I directly invited, and then friends brought friends. We had reserved a 10 person table, but ended up taking up most of the table next to us by the time the evening was out. The turnout for the festival in general was impressive too, and they did some really clever things to handle the crowds which made for easy restroom trips (always a concern at beer fests!) and pretty speedy food and drink acquisition even as the evening wore on and the crowds picked up. All in all, a very good event.
Now I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves!
OK, I’ll explain this one, cyron_lj had a breathalyser and there are few things more amusing at a beer festival than a breathalyser. 3 beers in I was already at .08 (higher than everyone else – go me!). Here Michael is trying it, he was only .02.
Thanks again to everyone who came out and helped make it a great birthday. And of course thanks to Michael, who took care of me and got me that delicious carrot cake :) We ended up getting some Real Food inside after the festivities died down around 9PM, but by then I was ready to take a nap. We traveled home around 10.