Wednesday, June 25, 2008

All That Jazz from Stevi


We made it through our first festival, was a bit of work and strange weather, but we made it.
The 1st day we got to the Telluride Jazz festival we had some snow and some rain…..fun times ahead I was thinking setting up our vendor site and camp site in the rain. However the rain and snow stopped and we could get things up with out getting too wet.
As we got our tent up and the espresso bar situated we plugged in the espresso machine, test it out let it warm up. We smelt burning…. Yep the espresso machine was not wanting to work. A wire had melted and was overheating or something like that. We got through that. Greg was able to fix it. Woo.
We went into the town and walked around telluride was so beautiful and the music had started in a few restaurant’s and bars. Was a nice feel to the town.
The next morning we got up about seven and made coffee for the V.I.P tent. All that went smoothly and the weather was looking good, people…. other vender’s and the crew were pretty happy that we where there, coffee is what keeps these people going.
Most of the people that worked there were so lovely and seemed to love what they do. Some of them travelled all over with different festivals working and having fun and happy to be meeting, people and loving the music.

I think about 10:30-11 people stared to come in and fill the park and all they seem to want was smoothie’s and more smoothie’s. As the pace picked up so did the music.
Though at times it was a bit awkward getting things done and long hours, working in such a beautiful place and with lovely people made it easy. I think that we all learned a lot here and now know what to do for our next adventure.
The next two days picked up and we always had something on the go. It was tiring and fun at the same time. By the last day we were all dirty, tired and happy with what we had done over all. People got there coffee and smoothies and seemed to love it.
I would love to do something like that again. Now we know what we are doing I think that we could own the next festival.

Stevi *

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