2014 Sea Wheeze Race Recap, Part 4: The Sunset Festival
This year we made it to the Sunset Festival, held the afternoon of the race. We took the shuttle buses that left from the Convention Center. We skipped the yoga and left about 5:30-6:00 pm for the concert. There were hugely long lines for the three food tents when we got there and they only got much longer behind us. The choices for food were Canadian, Mexican, or Healthy (tiny jars of salad). Prices were not cheap. Our burritos, made with brown rice and organic this and that, were $12 each and nachos were $6. The burritos were meh but the guacamole with the nachos was delish. The food was cash only so there was another enormous line, at least 40 people long when we got there, for the ATM machine.
My niece really wanted to try the trapeze but the line was too long.
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Great sunset view of the city behind the stage. |
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We staked out a place on the hillside to eat our dinner and watch the concert. |
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Stilt entertainers for the crowd |
There were various vendor booths set up, selling malas and other items. Lululemon had a table of Sunset Festival Scubas in Sunny Lime and Pipe Dream Blue. My sister picked up the Sunny Lime Scuba, which matched her Sea Wheeze swirly rainbow print shorts perfectly.
People think these were re-purposed Scubas that didn't sell but making special edition products out of leftover items by embroidering or screen printing them is not a bad idea at all. I really like the
bicycle print CRB I bought.
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View of the stage from up close. |
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The opening band, The Coulorist, performing. |
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Capital Cities performing |
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Laser light projections on the trees. |
We stuck around long enough to hear Capital Cities perform their big hits and then we headed to the shuttle buses to beat the crowd. We were able to get on the first set of buses back and were back home before 10 pm. I heard that after Capital Cities performed they let people on the stage to dance to prerecorded music and some girl flashed the crowd Mardi Gras-style. My teenage nephew was a bit bummed he missed that part.
It was a fun concert and a mellow crowd in the area we were sitting in but I think next year we'll make sure to eat before we go.
Did you go? What did you think?
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A "souvenir" pillow from the concert. (Thanks to Ms. C. for the photo.) |