Every single time I go to the Strawberry Festival I feel underwhelmed and make some snide remark where I say “I’m never going back to that crap again”. I can’t say things were any different this year, but the situation was a little different.
Being that I went to a Cherry Blossom Festival earlier this year that was a scam, my expectations were lower than I would have otherwise expected. That being said, there were strawberries here! Plenty of overpriced strawberries.
Here’s some things that obviously made my visit uncomfortable.
- It was blazing hot. Obviously this is not the fault of the Strawberry Festival organizers, but still…. I was improperly dressed wearing jeans and whatnot.
- No parking. No parking meant more walking from the car to the destination of the festival, which took approximately 10 minutes. Not that far of a distance but with the amount of humidity in the air, it wasn’t pleasant.
- Eating Blazing Hot Pot Right before. Being that we ate hot soup in the hour before actually arriving to the Festival we were already internally at a higher temperature than we would have been comfortable with.
- Overcrowding. It was a little hard to move around the festival with the amount of people there. These picture does not do it justice.
That being said, I didn’t actually die of heat stroke and left shortly thereafter. I don’t think the strawberry festival is meant for people like me anyway. Seeing the amount of couples and families (and kids) around I think it’s more appropriate for a place to take a date, or your kids if you have any. That being said, I would never take someone to this festival, because she’d probably be equally as disappointing as me.
We’ll see. I’ll probably be back next year somehow.
