After two years of this being cancelled and three years of it being on the same weekend something else I wanted to go to, I finally made it to the Dragon Boat Festival! YAYAYAYAY!
It rained all weekend and there was some thunder and lightening, but we were able to see some races. Later, I found out that a friend of mine, Mike, was racing that weekend. Didn't know until he commented on my Instagram post. The boats of course had dragons on the front of them. I didn't know they had someone beating a drum to keep the rowers on pace. Super cool to watch!
Apparently, one of the boats got hit by lightening and the nonprofit that runs this festival had to ship one overnight from Iowa for the tune of...wait for it...you're not going to believe this..$10K!!!! You read that right! I hope they were able to make enough money during the festival to make up for that cause that is ONE HUGE CHUNK OF CHANGE!
Overall, it was a fun day and some ducks decided to come visit. We also saw a fish do a flip, which scared the heck out of me.
I have no idea which boats won but it was cool to see a real dragon boat!
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