how i spent my weekend

i was blessed this weekend by being given a ticket to the falcon ridge folk festival (thanks liz!), a ride (thanks dianne!) and a pass by my family (thanks!) to go alone all of saturday day and night.  it was tremendously fun and relaxing to have the time to myself.  there is so much going on at the festival - three different music stages, and a wonderful funky midway with wares and massages and tons of incredible food choices.  i dozed and listened and ate and listened, and woke up and listened.  i made it all the way to the closing act, marton sexton, and even though i was sleepy it was well worth staying up.  and with the help of a cell phone call to bill (thank you weather.com!), i managed to avoid the one storm of the day, safely tucked away in my tent.

sunday, bill and the kids came out to meet me.  i was all recharged and ready to shepherd the kids along in whatever they wanted to do (there are many kids activities at falcon ridge) as i had had my alone time, and plus i was carrying a walkman on which i could catch whatever was playing on the main stage.  morgan and i played with those funky hippie catchy stick thingies, and maddy learned to lanyard weave at the kids art tent, and i got them settled for a couple of great shows.  and then... this happened...

that's the view from outside.  but we were inside the kids performance tent, where many of the adults, myself included, were trying to hold down the roof of the tent in an effort to keep it from collapsing, like the main concession tent did, as seen in the videos above (exterior) and (interior) below...

oddly enough, things in the kids tent were much calmer, probably due to the fact that (1) all us grownups were trying to put on a good show for all the kids, and (2) our tent did not actually collapse.

Comments

[David]

It's maddening watching that and the previous video.

Having been in the kids tent, and having made (and encouraged) the effort to protect the kids in the shelter, it amazes me to see how the people in the video largely seemed content (or dazed enough) to watch the tent collapse around them.

It took some time, but many of the people in the Family tent are what kept that tent from collapsing.

Without everyone holding that tent DOWN, it would have failed and that would have been REALLY bad, with all those kids in there.