The fun actually began on Sunday afternoon setting up the parking at the church. This involved setting post stinging wire and stapling name tags to the wire for each space. All of the parking spaces at the church are pre-sold for the whole week. The remains of Hurricane Ike were passing through and about the time we were finishing up the wind started un-doing what we had accomplished. Signs and caution tape flying in several direction at once. At this point we decided to wait until Monday to finish this part of the project. Jackson was fortunate compared to other area of the state as any power outage was very local and short. Thanks to Andrew, Josh and Michael for all of their hard work.
Monday evening we met to finish setting up the parking lot and to set up our exhibit area with our trailer and flags. Then on Tuesday the Festival officially begins and the first of many many cars will be parking in our lots.
Tuesday, the official first day of the festival and we started parking cars that evening. Wednesday the festival started getting busier and of course more customers for parking. We try to police the lots we park and keep the trash picked up. Area Scouts marched in two parades as the official color card. The afternoon School parade and the official Grand opening parade on Wednesday evening.
