This was our first real OTR event: Summer Celebration! And to give you an idea of how close to our backyard this gathering was, check out Dan's shot of the goings-on from our balcony:
Sorry if you've already seen everyone else's identical crowd shots, but it's an obligation.
We had lunch at the @SenorRoys taco truck, which somehow I'd never managed to run into before. I really enjoyed my lunch and they seemed to be printing their own money-- so did @BurgerBGood and @DojoGelato. Great to see our local deliciousness turn out!
(Hello @Kate_the_Great! Fab to meet you and take an awkward shot of your hand on your tush!)
Annnnd there's the @5chw4r7z, naturally. We are starting to run into more and more people that we recognize at these events! IT HAS BEGUN!
And here's the bandstand. I can't tell you how incredible it was to wake up, open our balcony door and hear live music flooding up to our new home. This is what we wanted-- I'm so glad we're moved in just in time for summer!
Thank you to everyone (merchants, food carts, organizers, musicians, you name it!) who made Summer Celebration possible!
5 comments:
OTR is such a tiny neighborhood, or it seems that way to me, these things are such social scenes anymore, but its incredible to actually talk to neighbors instead of wave at them from a car like you do in the burbs.
I ran the 5k in the morning, and definitely enjoyed the live music from my windows all day. I was stuck inside doing homework but I still felt like I was participating, the music was great.
Schwartz (I've given up with the numbers): You and your anti-burb agenda! People seem so open here and anxious to meet new people, talk, create events like this so they can congregate. I love it.
John: It was a humid day and hard to keep the windows open, but so worth it!
you call it anti-burb I call it pro-urban.
Whateva, I ain't letting it go.
But thats what you love about me ;-D
No, see, that's where I disagree-- "pro-urban" would sound like "It's so great to live in a place where your neighbors congregate to party all the time, and you're within walking distance of so many awesome people!"
"Anti-burb" sounds like "and keep in mind that you only get to wave to your neighbors when you live in the suburbs."
It's more about cutting on the burbs than one elevating the city. It's a fine line but an important distinction, I think.
And yes, I still love you.
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