Hope, Diego, Trent, Billy, Lindsay, LD, and I went out to Pease Park on Saturday for the 45th annual celebration of Eeyore’s Birthday in Austin. It was a beautiful day to play outside - moderate temperature, cool breeze, bratwurst, and beer. We spent the day people watching, wandering past vendor’s booths and through drum circles, and cheering for the jugglers and the band.I am glad we went out to the park early in the day. The park really started to fill up by 2:00 and I enjoyed walking through the park before the crowd got very big. Of course a big part of the fun is the crowd and there was a lot to see this year, but I was moving slow that morning and needed the time to warm up.
LD, Billy, and I met Hope and Diego at the bean bag toss at about 11:30. Trent joined us a few minutes later. I ate too much blue cotton candy and watched Diego decorate the world with sidewalk chalk. Tigger was on stage to hand out prizes for the kid's costume contest. Trent and I browsed through all of the booths but could not find honey sandwiches, honey cones, honey candy, or honey wheat beer anywhere at the party - this seems like a serious thematic oversight on the part of the vendors.
We stayed until mid-afternoon, but after the sack races we took one more turn through the big drum circle, past the "free hugs" sign and headed back up the hill and out of the park for an early raspa dinner at Casey’s New Orleans Snowballs (mmmm... more sugar).
See you there next year.
- Joey
