Festivals Have Changed

This past weekend we decided to head to the Arizona Taco Festival and of course take Mr. Maxim with us.  Make it a family day.  Now that it is A.M. our festival experiences have changed since B.M.  It's a whole different world attending a festival with a baby.

After some research online we decided it was best to get to the festival at 11am when it started so that way we beat the party crowd and would be gone before the party crowd arrived.  Really, did I just say that?  I once defined the party crowd, and now I am trying to avoid the party crowd...that's what a baby will do to you.

With the big man in tow we left the house for our first real big event.  The diaper bag is stocked and we have the stroller in the back and baby in the car and we are ready to roll.  Shortly after leaving the house the big man starts crying and we believe he is hungry so we had to listen to it the whole way to the festival grounds.  Talk about a mood killer.  Once we got there we sat in the car while I nursed the big man.  Finally, we were able to unpack the car and get this party started as we pushed the packed stroller into the festival grounds.  For the first time ever we were actually at a festival to partake in the festivities and not to party.  There were over 40 taco vendors and it was $2 per taco to taste and it was very good.  We went from tent to tent tasting all the yummy tacos.  I turned the corner and there I saw the tequila tent (don't be confused with the vodka tent that is at the annual culinary festival).  That is where Andy and I would normally be later in the day, but life has changed for us and we kept rounding that corner past the tequila tent until we hit the next taco stand. 

Ten taco tastes later and we were full and according to the crowd that was taking over it looked like it was time to head out for the day.  On our exit we saw the 20 and 30 something's piling into the festival and heading straight to the tequila tent to start their day off with a bang. 

We unpacked the stroller and got the big man into the car and headed on home. He did great at the festival as this is how he was the whole time!  Just chilling taking a nap.

I look forward to next year's taco festival as it was very yummy and we did have fun.