July 27, 2002
Garlic, garlic, and more garlic
Today we went to the Gilroy Garlic festival. Despite living here for years, and having been out here every summer but one since 1990, I'd never been. So after giving the cat (yes, the cat) some water, we headed down Highway 101. Traffic sucked, as it always does trying to get into Gilroy, and was probably made worse this year by the fact that Caltrain isn't running on the weekends anymore until sometime mid-2004. Otherwise we would have just taken the train.
But the festival itself was lots of fun. Lots, and lots of garlic foods. We started with some sausages, having not eaten anything yet. Really good sausage, cooked with LOTS of garlic. During the course of the day, we also had garlic popcorn, garlic ice cream (surprisingly good), garlic bruschetta, and some more garlic ice cream.
The arts and crafts section of the festival was rather disappointing. Everything kind of looked the same, and mostly cheap. Except for the really expensive stuff, which all looked kind of the same as all the other really expensive stuff. Ah well.
It was sort of amazing how many people were there.
All in all, a fun time. Good food, and a fun trip.
Posted by Mike at July 27, 2002 06:21 PM