Festivals, Festivals, Festivals All The Time

I went to the baseball game this past Sunday afternoon with my friend Mark and sister Susan, and on the way back to the car we noticed that still another street festival was taking place - The Denver Cherry Blossom Festival at Sakura Square in downtown Denver, as seen in the photograph above. Later on, I checked on the internet and learned that this was the 51st year of this event, which "celebrates the Japanese heritage and culture through live entertainment, food and drink, a marketplace, and informative exhibits and demonstrations." I have heard about this festival for years but never attended until walking through it last Sunday. And it made me realize that Denver has a LOT of festivals. In fact, I have attended a festival every other week since Cinco De Mayo took place in Civic Center Park at the beginning of May. Two weeks after that, on Memorial Day weekend, I visited the Denver Arts Festival in the Central Park neighborhood. Two weeks after that the Denver Chalk Art Festival, which was held near the Denver Art Museum (the DAM), and two weeks later the Highlands Street Fair, which took place just this past Saturday. Two weeks from now the Cherry Creek Arts Festival takes place, one of the top art shows in the country. And looking ahead, there will be still more festivals every two weeks through Labor Day. Did they plan it this way, or what? And best of all, many of these festivals will feature a booth selling Giant Turkey Legs. I have always wondered if they simply make a huge batch of turkey legs at the start of the festival season and just freeze and refreeze those same turkey legs up to and including Oktoberfest at the end of September. Yum.