In the end we didn’t see any flowers. The festival seems to celebrate the idea of flowers but no flowers are present… but all of Calgary was there, it was a gorgeous day and we all got lost. Here’s a summary of our day:
Tips for getting lost at a festival and separating your group…
5. Don’t plan a meeting spot in case of impending separation
4. Don’t discuss a wrap up time – assume this will occur naturally
3. Use hand gestures, not words when going separate ways, surrounded by hundreds of festival goers.
2. Only carry one cell phone although two exist in your household. This makes looking for one another that much more challenging.
1. Separate by gender, women stick together and men stick together that way you don’t have a representative opposite sex opinion and it makes looking for other gender much more discriminate.
Look for one another for what feels like hours, deny baby nursing, feed toddler granola bar for lunch and once you find each other, do lots of yelling, cursing and death stares as thousands of people walk by you thereby maximizing public display of marital dysfunction.
In the end, Maryliz and I ate fries from chip wagon (our goal), we had a 4 way argument between in-laws, hubby and I with all of us trying to get the last word in and the women were successful in reinforcing genetic flaws with males walking way too far ahead all the time thereby making separation sure to occur in any crowd.
If I have to decide a winner (there is one in this case)… its Maryliz and I! We were right, we won, and we’re the best!! Yes Lizzie!! She’s got good arguments and she’s been managing these men for many years…
All is forgotten now! Marriage is repaired and no child was harmed or irreversibly traumatized (as far as I can tell) by attending the “f*ckin’ flowers” festival!