Wow. Every bit as bad as I thought it would be and worse. Got there at 6:30. They were putting up the canopies that we were being FORCED to use. Ours was still laying on the ground. No big deal, I just arrived there a little bit ahead of schedule. Set up was set to begin at 7:00. My part of the canopy was up at 7:12 and I then came on over with my van. Somewhat difficult to set up. We put up our grids, which were quite unstable, as I mentioned before and then we put up our merchandise.
Most of the crowd (crowd? What crowd?) came before noon and a large majority hung around to watch the entertainment, which was subpar until the young ladie's began performing around 1:30 and that sparked things up.
It was overcast and foggy all day long and a bit breezy at times. Common for this area... I lived in Pacifica just over the hill and in 7 months in 1981 I only saw the sun for 4 days. Not too many people arrived during the afternoon and the crowds dwindled down. Sales were poor for us and a number of the other vendors had a bad hair day also and this just not worth it. Very cheap crowd. Free admission, so would you expect? Event was held in a parking lot at Serramonte in back of Target. Kind of spread out and they could have placed booths in closer proxmity to one another.
During the latter part of the afternoon we felt the large canopy being lifted in the air and being plopped back down on the ground. Kind of like an earthquake? I thought we were goners. The wind had parachuted into the canopy and jolted it around. Canopies were not properly weighed down. My grids almost toppled over and were now leaning inward about two feet and I tried to push them back into position and wasn't able to.
A few minutes later, one of the ladie's in charge of the event just happened to be passing by and I told her what just happened with the canopies and what it did to my beautiful display. She said that she saw what happened when she was standing down on the other end. I told her that these canopies are unsafe and I was going to remove all my things tonight and not come back on Sunday. I asked for a refund for one day and replied extremely bluntly, "NO, YOU ARE NOT GETTING A REFUND.' I just shook my head. "This is not my fault, your canopies here are dangerous. They are not properly secured" She told me that the men were going to come tonight and secure the canopies better. Hell, they should have done it correctly in the first place. So, we do not return on Sunday...... that's the end of the Daly City Fil-Am Festival for us which we had been associated with for 8-9 years in the past. Salamat, arriva derchi, hasta la vista, adios, zai jian, au revoir, shalom .... GOOD BYE. And of course, did not find Paradise here either!!!
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Fil-Am Festival, Daly City
Lumpia at Fil-Am Festival
One of my favorite Filipino foods is lumpia. My wife must make the greatest vegetable lumpia this side of Manila...maybe in the world. That is delicious, I must say.
Anyhow, we picked up some Shanghai (pork) lumpia from one of the stands at the event and it was cold and tasteless. Like, U-know when you buy lumpia, it would be nice to eat it when it is warm. This was not. Matter of fact, kind of tasted like it was maybe, uh...Tuesday's lumpia. I just don't know.
Northern California Fire
Hopefully we can get rid of some of this smoke. If anybody can give me first-hand info on the fires along Highway 5 heading up to Mt. Shasta, I'd really appreciate it. Really nice 4th of July event in Mt. Shasta City. Lots of people on Friday and somewhat less on Sat/Sun. Great scenic location for an event, with the cloud and snow covered mountain visible at the end of the street.
I have found what looks like a pretty decent link with info on the fires... you might want to check it out if you are going anywhere for the holiday.
And our weather report for Mt Shasta City http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/USCA0741?from=search_10day
Looking pretty good....no thunderstorms (?) Temps around 90.. I'll take that after last years' 108 degrees for several days. I just hope that I'm not anywhere near this nutzo guy I was across from last year that sold dog stuff. Kinda off...wayyyy off!
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