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For starters, it didn't start on time, but I'm happy to say that it wasn't nearly as late as last year. Last year it was probably a good 20 or 30 minutes late, this year maybe only 5 or 10. You'd think that with a freaking year to plan the damned thing, it could at least start on time, but hey, I know shit comes up I guess.

When  Brunhilda the security guard finally got the go ahead to release the hounds and let the hoards of beer drinkers in, I made it straight to the Terrapin brewing tent, but was sadly disappointed to find that the Terrapinator was missing from this year's lineup, it being another casualty of the great hop famine of 2008. *sigh* Maybe next year.

Overall, things were great. Great beer selection, though not NEARLY as good as it could have been if the bastard Alabama Legislature could find a way to do the job they make us pay them for, but this is also another blog entry for a future date.

As last year, the music was wonderful, good food too...my wife was perhaps the first to discover what in my opinion was a MAJOR shortcoming from this year's event: beer beer everywhere, but not a drop of water to drink!

My wife is a patient woman, and a wonderful catch for me. It isn't every woman that would ride for 3 hours to go with her husband to a beer festival, particularly when she dislikes beer, but this wonderful domestic goddess not only went with me, but she served as a designated driver, which as I'm sure you all agree is as an important part of the beer fest as the beer itself!

Well, today was hot. Hot as hell. Not a breeze to be found, hot bodies everywhere making things even more unbearable...and even though the designated drivers were to receive unlimited water and soft drinks, water was suspiciously absent from the event for the better part of the hot sunny afternoon.

We were told by the orange shirted volunteers all over the park, "go to the other end, you'll find water there" only to find after walking the trek to the other side of the Sloss brewery grounds that the "water is on the other side".....

She did finally find some cloyingly sweet vitamin water, but a thirst quencher it was not. She might not need a vitamin supplement for the rest of her life, and perhaps that will help her overcome her dehydration, but some good old fashioned spring water would have been wonderful not only for the non-drinkers in the bunch, but also for those of us that paid 22 for the beer tour, or those like me that paid 32 dollars so we could get the extra 2.00 worth of free food. Hell, I would have paid another 10 bucks just for a reliable water supply after about an hour or two out in that heat. SHEESH!

Next year though, I promise I won't have that problem. I'm going on my truck, and instead of a lot of useless luggage the bed will be full of plastic bottles of cold clear water, and I'll not go thirsty....nor will anyone else willing to exit the front gate, and bring a couple of bucks to the Boll Weevil Brewery's Water Tent!

:-)

Ok, better go now...my child bride is giving me the look, and I would HATE to let this hotel room just go to waste with mundane sleeping, plus she's dehydrated remember? I need to go get some fluids into her heh heh....

*burp*