Sweet Pea 2006

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August 3rd 2006

Published: August 11th 2006

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ThePilgrim

The Sign For Tater Pigs

Here is the record of my first ever Seet Pea Festival Experience. Let me start off by saying it is one of the best eight dollars spent here in Bozeman. For the price of a movie at the theater you can have a whole weekend of theater, dancing, and music out in beautiful Lindley Park here in Bozeman. Things started off Saturday morning with (I missed the evening festivities on Friday) a fairly large parade involving a lot of dinosaurs, old cars, clowns, dancers, horses, and two high school classes celebrating their reunion on parade floats down town. After having a free popsicle I was in high spirits to walk over to Lindley Park and see some theater shows and a couple of bands.

Hunger and Tater Pigs

So I started off the festivities with a hungry stomach and thought to myself, well there is plenty of tasty vendors here at Sweet Pea and that's when I saw it. A sky blue sign showing me the true way to tastiness...The Tater Pig, Good N' Hot, a true ingenious culinary concoction. I hope you're sitting down for this. They drill out a hole from a potato and in the absence

Self Portrait with a Free Popsicle

of the potatoey core they slide in a sausage or two and bake them...so simple, yet so smart. Afterwards they split the potato and fill the crack with sour cream, bacon, and chives...pure heaven. Now if you are a spud-a-holic, they have another version with the less charismatic name of Tater Hole, which is four of the potato cores removed to make a Tater Pig and a suasage, more potato, less skin, still four little dollars. There was a lot of complaining by Sweet Pea goers this year as I guess the price of a Tater Pig has risen from 2.75 from two years ago to it's 4.00 price tag it currently holds. I had no preference since this was my first Sweet Pea festival. Oh and I had a Chocolate Covered Frozen Banana as well from some guy in a Banana suit, it was very much like the show Arrested Development and I couldn't help but snicker as I ate this tastey frozen conocotion.

The Vendors

I went and walked the boulivard of vendors and though I didn't purchase anything, it was very nice. It reminded me of a renisance fair and I took a couple of

Slackline Juggler

My friend Trevor Juggiling on a Slack Line (like a tight wire, but very very loose).

pictures of some leather masks that really tickled my fancy.

The Shows

Out of all the shows playing at their four main stages, I saw two very enjoyable Improv Comedy, a slap-stick theater group from Oregan, A Belly Dancing show (which they came in the audience to pick dancers at the end and I did a nice little russian dance job to end the show off with), a white James Brownish Gospel show, a Canadian Jazz Singer, a Cello Indie Rock Band, and the highlight of the festival was Brave Combo a funky, polka, rock, classical, all around fun band. Their play list included such hits as the William Tell Overture, The Chicken Dance, The Hockey Polkey, Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones and other crazy Rocking Funk Mixes! I was up front dancing the whole time and I'm glad I was wearing my Pith Helmet as their was copious amount of crowd surfing and a whole lot of polkaing. A pleasant Sweet Pea all and all, and it was the most enjoyable way to spend a weekend.

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