band festival

ok, so.....the annual band festival ends this evening......this installment has been exceptional for tie-in events.....the wine tasting, the gallery hop (db&f hosted a jewelry maker and a painter in the glowing-gourd genre....), a 5K run, in addition to the bands themselves.....we arrived last evening about 7:30....and stayed til after 10- heard just three bands....but three brass bands is enough...it is the seeing friends that matters most- and so we sat in our usual spot with the usual friends and drank wine from plastic water bottles so as not to be too obvious....and enjoyed a perfectly lovely evening out.....getting ready to go to the community church service.....which is thankfully casual....and will likely skip the balloon race....as i said, three brass bands is about enough for me....