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| Scenes from Vacaville
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| A cute pair of apple-picking statues in downtown Vacaville, across the
street from the main square.
| The small triangular park in which the statues reside has pretty
flowerbeds. Only one is shown in this picture.
| The old, classical-revival library, now the Chamber of Commerce. A
number of costumed people, supposedly an actors guild, mostly not in
this picture, hung out in the open space out front. I mainly took the
photograph for the mural and the building.
| The CreekWalk,
a trail for strolling by the creek adjacent to downtown (where I did
exactly that).
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| The tree-lined mall in Andrews Park, adjacent to the CreekWalk. For
some reason, I really like this row of facing trees.
| A garden within Andrews Park.
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| Ratapult
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| The catapults used for the ratapult
contest at the Medieval Fantasy
Festival.
| A youngster gets the privilege of triggering the catapult.
| The costumed stuffed-animal rat-that's why it's call the ratapult--hits
the ground and two pages run to put it on a stretcher and return it.
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| Festival-y Things
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Some of the people in the costume contest.
Sorry, I took this
picture obliquely; I didn't want to interrupt their relaxing
post-contest conversations.
| More of the people in the costume contest, including some of the winners.
| Live alpaca, used to advertise the alpaca-knitted items in the adjacent
booth.
| One of a few trained birds (falcons?) kept by some female entertainers
at the fair.
Incidentally, the women won one of the categories in
the costume contest.
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| The kid's section of the festival, including a little train that drove around.
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| Entertainment
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Electrika, a gypsy rock
band, played good dancing music.
I took this video at a
low-resolution because all I cared about was the sound.
| Dale Shinn, the fire-swallowing, juggling man on stilts.
| Juggling flaming clubs, on stilts.
| Fire swallowing.
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| A small parade interrupted the fire-eater's act.
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I also spotted the chapman stick player, Bob
Culbertson who I seem to find at every festival.
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| Food
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| Camellia City Catering, the stand from which I bought lunch.
| My lamb Cornish pasty: moist, fairly good. A bit like shepherd's pie or
meatloaf except that it's in a crust. Actually, the best part of the
pasty was the part of the crust that was thick and chewy.
The
tangy, sweet sauce was a cross between chili sauce and ketchup.
| Inside the pasty: lamb, cabbage, potatoes. There were more items, such
as carrots, that were in small quantities and not pictured.
| The Pickle Man. I bought a jar of hot dills from him. In the process,
he let me try what I wanted: pickled garlic (good--you eat the cloves
straight), carrots (decent/good), and green beans (eh).
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| The shaved ice stand.
| My watermelon shaved ice, complete with a flower-shaped plastic cup
that, although cute, wasn't recyclable or reusable. Bad!
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