We just came back from ‘Celebrate Milpitas’ [http://www.artsopolis.com/event/detail/23317], which is a festival of Art, Wine, Culture & Entertainment (August 18-August 19, 2007). The event went well too. We walked around from 10:30AM to 11:15AM.
Our original destination was the Farmer’s Market located in the Milpitas Town Center near Mervyn’s store per a magazine dated from this year. But I guess that already closed since last year. We used to buy fresh produce here and now have to pay a bit higher at the local grocery stores instead.
We bought three CD at $35.00 from Hugo Wainzinger, who signed all three purchases (except Al who had to pick up his wife from Japan.) The CD has the distinct romantic songs of Italia spread out among all three CD’s. (Yes, Flynn does listen to these favorite sounds of old).
The instrumental arrangement is guitar and mandolin and could be found on their website via [http://heartstringsmusic.com/]. Their next CD, according to Hugo, will include the Filipino song, ‘Sampagita’ — which is the national flower and very fragrant too.
I wanted to visit all booths and talk to the vendors and at least buy something from each one. They all deserve our patronage for displaying their wares. There were hand painted light bulbs, magnetic and stone jewelries, soaps, clothes and other two booths of interest, like landscape design and Baja peninsula.
The Milpitas Fire Department, Lions Club and the Rotary Club were there. I wanted to ride in the fire truck. The Milpitas Police Department had their usual trailer for processing any citizens nearby too.
There were other performers like ‘The Sundance Kids’ and children dancers of ‘Polynesian’ descendent. I took pictures of them with my stupid cellphone camera and these photos are not worth uploading. I had my good camera in my other bag unfortunately because I didn’t want to get loaded down while enjoying the very cool but clear, sunny day.
There were lots of food too — beer, lumpia (deep, fried Filipino eggroll), snow cones, bar-be-que (mostly chicken, of course) on a stick and other food items we didn’t bother eating because ‘Kali-Maw’ couldn’t not walk too long on her bum knees and under the hot sun (despite the black umbrella) that did offer some relief for her.
I feel better knowing that I have a few more moments to spend while on this earth and to share my experiences with those who are willing to put up with me. I’ve missed so much with the outdoors but will have to make the effort to drive myself and others to these places of interest. Blogging while indoors shall continue, though.
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