Celebrate Davis 2012

Today was the Celebrate Davis 2012 event. It is held in Community Park in Davis, CA. It's a pretty huge park. It was my first time at Community Park. I actually heard about this event through twitter. Then, from other websites. I don't think I would have went if I didn't find out about it yesterday.

I arrived at the event a couple of hours after it started. When I arrived, there were already a lot of people. There were people of all ages and families were there as well.

I have to say that I was surprised that there were so fun stuff to do. There was this clown making balloons.

There were also local businesses and others who had a spot in the park.

 Look at the stuff I got tonight. I have to admit that my favorite item was the Mondavi Center pin. Many of them gave out free stuff. Some allowed you to play games, spin wheel, or filled out forms to win prizes. One of the big prizes of the night was the Ipad.

Oh, and not let's forget about the getting to ring the dong! The person said it was from Indonesia, which sounded cool!

I got a balloon and some other great prizes!

There were even youth bands playing while I was there. I also read that the Band-Uh was performing earlier.

A balloon from the Retirement Community.

The crowd during Celebrate Davis.

View of another section of the park during the event.

I always wanted to go in one of those balloon things! They were having rat races, so they were pretty fun!

I been rock climbing before, so I didn't mind not doing it. And, there's always opportunities to go to Rocknasium or other rock climbing places.

 After walking around and getting prizes, we bought pizza from Steve's Pizza Place.
 

And, the finale was fireworks. It began at 9pm. I decided to record it once I found out it started. It's a bit shaky and it moves up and down since the fireworks dont go to the same places. I must also admit it was hard focusing on watching the fireworks when I was recording. I tried to do both. I liked the fireworks show. Short, but still good. Fireworks don't happen too often, so I'm glad that I got to enjoy it tonight.

Playing Games

I don't know how it happened. But, I realized that I really like playing board games and other fun games. We have about 14+ games. But, a few people borrowed our games, but I haven't seen them in months. However, me and my siblings haven't played in months. I miss playing games.

Super Mario Kart Chess

Last winter, I played games with a few friends and family members and it was really fun. I had no idea my friends were that competitive! We all really wanted to win the games.

Mah Jong

The thing about playing games is not everyone knows how to play the game. I usually try explaining the game and start playing. I feel that I learn a lot of playing games by just playing them and observing how others played. In fact, I learned how to play Big (Chinese card game) by observing my cousins.

It was always fun getting a new game that none of us played yet. That means that one or more of us would have to read the rules or directions and explain to others how to play the game. It was exciting playing from a new board game and testing whether it was entertaining or not.

There are still some rules that I am unsure of or don't know entirely, but understand the game well enough to play it through. When me and my siblings were younger, we didn't know all of the rules of Monopoly, so we didn't follow all of them. Instead, we made our own rules, which was exciting and made the game end faster.

Then, there's some games where you are like "huh?" I got this shock machine last summer. There's suppose to be two players. Hold on to one of the four sticks and press the circle button in the middle. Watch the circle button in the middle until you see it turn red. Then, it would be a good idea to press the red button from the stick you are holding or you will be shocked. This game sounded very exciting and I'm glad that I have it.

Whole Earth Festival 2012 at UC Davis

This weekend is the Whole Earth Festival. Each year, UC Davis has the Whole Earth Festival, which is held on the quad.

There are a bunch of vendors on the quad. They sell different items. They sell jewelry and other unique items.

I thought this was such a cute booth! I would have gotten one of them if it had my name or someone I knew.

I found the brochures for the event. I really like the design that was chosen this year. The brochure contained a calendar of events from Friday-Sunday. It has information on the different sections of the festival, such as Craft.

I was walking around an area that served food and I noticed someone hold a mango stick. I was about to get one and only had $4 and decided if its $4 or less I would get a mango stick. But, the mango stick was $5.

 The poster from FlatLand Collective.

I like how they promoted bringing your own dishes to the event. They even have a place for you to wash the dishes or to return them.

The kid space. This place is less crowded and has more young ones.

I thought that it was interesting that they held up coke and other soda can on the trees.

One of the places where people could perform. I think the performers were doing some kind of dance.

 A view of the different vendors at the festival in the west part of the quad.

A view of the festival and more specifically the middle of the quad.

Another view of the quad.

Something I found on the quad. 

Tie dye shirts! They somehow don't seem like the plain tie dye shirts since you there's the guitar and another design of a smiley, heart, and a peace sign. There were also other items offered.

More design from the tie dye vendor. It was a interesting booth!

Some other vendors on the west quad.

This was  a fun vendor. There were costumes! Their were fairies wings or well they look like them. I saw a few young ones wear them and they were adorable!

Hula hoops!!!

A performance in front of Hart Hall. I like this one since music was interesting. There was also a flute playing and someone was dancing.

Bands had the opportunity to play on east quad. At night, the band gets more attention since the vendors are shut down.

I gave in to the heat and got one of the last remaining Popsicle flavors. But, I think I would have chosen it anyways. Its strawberry lemonade flavored from Faces.