Fourth Of July Blast

Spent the day here on July 4^th. I was expecting a lot more booths and activities. Most of the booths were selling stuff — comic books, clothes, novelty tshirts, knock-​off sunglasses, and jewelry. There were bouncy houses, slides, and 1 carnival game, and 2 carnival rides for the kids. There was the longest line ever for shaved ice. The BBQ smelled really good though.
It wasn’t a lot of stuff and the stuff they did haven’t wouldn’t take the whole day just to do. But if you want to just sit in the run and relax it’s fun. They had a DJ playing music.
I wouldn’t come here again next year.

Yay. Mine and hubby’s first Independence Day celebration with many more to come.
Dropped by for a few hours this afternoon to check out the Live entertainment and dog show. The park was packed already by 1pm with many people coming down early to ‘reserve’ spots by laying blankets out /​putting up gazebos with the intent to come back later in the day which I thought this was a little cheeky if people don’t intent to be there for quite some time.
Entertainment was good, very laid back verging on disorganized in parts but the dog show in the Amphitheater was so cute! It was great to see so many taking park and clearly put in a lot of effort in some of the cute little outfits.
Also had live band entertainment and many tents set up selling Kettle Corn, Drinks (including beers and wine), Sunglasses, Jewelry ect with what I suspect to be a local DJ playing among the swarms of tents.
Activities were a little sparse — slides, bouncy house and one or two rides.
Rest rooms consisted of a handful of Porta Potty’s on each end of the park (one lot near the rec center and the other opposite CVS) which were surprisingly clean and stocked with tissues.
Parking $ 10 which is fairly reasonable for the whole day, many people were seen to be parking in the local mall strip car park but towing trucks were seen to be in operation with Safeway in particular enforcing the 1 hour maximum parking rule.
I love that it takes place in the Leo J park, right on the lake with the boat hire at the far end it’s a great place to spend the day. But a big negative to the evening festivities though — The huge amount of people ignoring the fact it was a ‘smoke free’ event (dozens and dozens of signs stating so). Would have been nice to have event workers enforcing the rule. Nothing worse than someone second hand smoke. Eeaw
Fireworks were for me were the highlight of the event which we went back for later in the evening after dinner. They started at 9:30pm over the lagoon, lasted about 25 minutes and were fantastic!
With Foster City being quite a small town they now how to celebrate. I would rate 3.5 but rounded up.