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Day 2: Slow and Uneventful

Two things were immediately obvious on Saturday. First, it was hot. Humid and 90 degrees, making the heat index “sweltering”. Second, there were a lot of people. The rain was gone and it was a weekend, thus many more people were packed into the fairgrounds. We were slathered with sunscreen, which somehow made the dust and sticky togetherness just a little less bearable. We grabbed some Crawfish Monica (very tasty! glad I had it early …), and headed over to the Gospel tent to hear the Providence Baptist Church mass choir.  We were enjoying the show when out of the corner of my eye, I saw a fest-goer lean over behind me.  I jumped to the edge of my seat just as the young man got sick right behind me.  He walked off unphased, leaving a disgusting and smelly mess.  We decided it was time to move to another tent.  (He evidently had a similar lunch as I did, which would have completely ruined my desire to try one of the highest rated food items of the festival.  Thus my comment about being lucky to have enjoyed it before this incident.)
After that we listed to the blues tent a while, and wandered around a bit, but there weren’t any shows we were psyched to see. It was too hot to eat much more or to really want beer, and the lemonade and iced tea lines were enormous though we found the strawberry lemonade line worth the wait. We thought about getting close to the stage for Cowboy Mouth, but just didn’t want to deal with the crowds. We ended up calling it a day early and chilling out (literally and figuratively) in the hotel for a while. We planned to go out to dinner at the local brewpub, but it was closed for a private party. So we ended up at another place down the street. The bartender seemed annoyed to take our order, but we got to sit outside and chat for several hours while enjoying a decent burger and a couple beers. The cook was very friendly and took care of us once our food arrived. A cool breeze had picked up, making these few hours the highlight of the day in terms of comfort and enjoyment. We could hear the band from the private party, so there was still music in the air.

The rest of our party decided to head to a late show, but Brian and I went back to the hotel for a good night’s sleep.

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