Aloha Beach Festival on the Ventura Promenade
Sept. 15, 2007
Dave & Claudia at Bandits Restaurant
These are our FIRST BLOG Pictures! Claudia & I went down to the beach & fairgrounds on Saturday afternoon. Ventura was having its third annual Aloha Beach Festival along the promenade. There were food and craft booths, hula hoop-ers, and skate boarders doing stunts along the way. They were even holding a surfing competition at Surfer's Point, with bleachers for spectators. The waves were only 3 feet high, but they were having fun. The announcer detailed each move of the surfer entrant, a turn, changed to goofy foot, etc.
After seeing everything at the Beach Festival, we walked across the street to the fairgrounds, for a home show. Lots of different companies selling their services (newwindows, hot tubs, landscape artists, etc.) for the home. We saw an old friend, Dan Drake, the chimney sweep in one of the booths. He was one of our customers at Quality Copy and we had him clean our chimney back in the days when it was wood burning (now gas logs only). At a granite counter booth there was a young boy around 10 years old that gave a real good presentation and asked if we wanted a flyer. He was one of the best salesmen we ran into all day.
After leaving the fair we did a bit of shopping around town(Claudia's errands). By that time it was dinner time, so we drove out to Camarillo and ate a place called Bandits. It is a cowboy themed BBQ place. As you enter, by the door, they have a big barrel of peanuts for you to eat and you just throw the shells on the floor. We had really yummy BBQ sandwiches, corn on the cob and beans. See the saddles in the background? Very thematic decor.
4 comments:
Sounds like a fun day! Just so you know, don't talk about going to the beach too much or you'll make us all jealous! Bandits sounds really cute. We should try it next time we are all together. I think it is sweet how you and Mom are holding hand in the dinner picture. :)
I'm glad to hear that you guys go and do stuff like this. Looks like you had a great time! Wish we could have been there to have fun WITH you.
YEAH! Pictures! So fun! It looks like you guys ahd a fun day! I wish we were there! That would have been fun. Except all the errands! Ü You guys look cute in your aloha shirts!
What a fun day!!! I didn't know Ventura had an Aloha festival. Sounds cool. That resturant looks cool. The place that Craig and I went to for my birthday had peanuts too but you didn't throw them on the floor, you had to put them in a bucket. (not quite as fun). Love the pictures!!
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