{"id":15790,"date":"2009-09-11T22:38:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T04:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15790"},"modified":"2014-11-07T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T16:00:21","slug":"blue-at-the-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/11\/blue-at-the-zoo.html","title":{"rendered":"Blue at the Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Margie and I, along with Stan, and with Jackie as Designated Driver, went to the Brew at the Zoo event at the Denver Zoo this evening.<\/p>\n

Sadly — we were disappointed. It was not nearly as much fun as in past years.<\/p>\n

The biggest problem was the number of people. The event was sold out (not sure about past years), and the crowds were pretty darned bad. The beer and food booths were scattered around a bit differently from past years, but they still ended up with some very bad choke points and with some excessively long lines.<\/p>\n

Of course, problems of placement and long lines could be a function of the event being oversold. As could the fact that an appalling number of booths ran out of food and beer<\/p>\n

Unlike past years, there was just beer — no token presence of wine or hard liquor. Nor was there coffee and cocoa as in the past, nor any dessert tables.<\/p>\n

As a gage of the crowds, last year the Golden Toad booth had one grill, and lines of about 30 minutes for their yummy BBQ-sauced skewers. This year, they had three grills going<\/a>, and the line was about an hour.<\/p>\n

The Jason’s Deli booth, located toward the back by the Rhinos, was out of food and closed by the time we got there, about 40 minutes after the main opening. By the time we were considering heading out, we could only find two beer vendors still open, and both had closed by 9:30 (out of a 10 p.m. event).<\/p>\n

Food places were stressed, too — though the potato bowls at Taste of the Wild were still going strong by the end of the evening.<\/p>\n

Did the Zoo have a sudden bout of vendor no-shows? Did expected sponsors\/participants not join up? Did companies scrimp on the supplies they brought with them? Or did the Zoo oversell the event? In any case, there were too many people there, one way or another.<\/p>\n

It was kind of sadly disappointing, for an event that we’ve enjoyed several times. Enough so to make us consider whether we want to come back next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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