What else can I say besides that this show was such a wreck I didn’t even do it. And it was expensive, so for me NOT to do it was a pretty big deal. But if this is all the badness for the season in one show, that will be fine with me..
First we started with the three hour drive down to Baltimore. When I realized, about 20 minutes from the show that I HAD FORGOTTEN MY TENT TOP. (insert mental breakdown and crying jag here…). Carlos looked up the local wholesale club on the GPS, we drove there, got some lunch (I was starving) and bought an EZ up. And headed to the show…
What a fiasco…
First, there was no paperwork for me when I arrived, no entrance tickets, no map, nothing.
We drove in and had to physically walk around the site to look for our spot. We had been told we could drive in to our spot- NO WAY. It was the farthest from the entrance and it had been blocked from all directions.
Then we were told that although our packet said to arrive AT 4 pm for set up, we were supposed to be set up BY 4 pm, so we had to move quickly if we were to set up at all. (funny thing: we were given the last set up time but were placed furthest from the entrance gate… made no sense)
Then we were told there was a side gate we could go in to make the haul of our items shorter (we had no rolling cart- we were supposed to be able to pull in)- and the gate was closed and could not be opened because it was installed wrong and the way it would swing open was blocked by large wooden pillars embedded in the ground.
Add to these facts that the site was full of mud, that the tents for merchandise were not even set up (and it was 2 hours before show opening), we saw no electricity set up (the show ran till 9 pm and was set in a grove of trees) and we couldn’t fathom how we were going to get our things out at 9 pm on Sunday since there was only one way in/out… and we decided not to deal with this show at all.
We left and drove back home. But we retuned the EZ-UP first… And we didn't even stay for the music..
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