Aardklop arts festival
The last week we were working at the Aardklop art festival.Our sweet stall attracted a lot of attention as usual.This festival takes a lot of planing on our side to cater for as many people as possible.With only 18X9 feet we don't have to much space but we did get six steal tables in, filled with our best sellers.
This year we where moved to a different stall but in the same tent witch worked out fine, but we do prefer our old spot at the opposite side of the tent.
Putting up the stall on Monday morning went well and we where finished
by noon.Thursday morning at nine the gates opened for the fist days trade, we kicked off on a steady pace selling sweets.Strangely our cotton candy did not sell very good this year.
At days end it was clear that our stock will not last for the rest of the festival because the first day is always the slowest of the week. Anita and I decided that it would be best to get more stock the next morning and that our daughter Aluschka would be in charge of the stall she is only fourteen years old but she handles the stall like a pro.It took us most of Wednesday to get the stock from our supplyers and we got back to the festival at five pm.I was so impress with the way Aluschka handled the stall with the help of the hired help, some of the customers can be a pain in the you now what.
The rest of the week went as expected and we all worked very hard the hole week.On Saturday morning I spoke to other vender's and those I spoke to all was very impress with their sales.
DRUNK STDENTS
Unfortunately we decided not to stay at our usual camping ground this year, witch was a huge mistake.We normally stay at the Potchefstroom dam caravan park but this year we decided to go to Olen stadium because it is so much cheaper than the dam caravan park.When we arrived it all looked fine a young man of about 19years old showed us to our camping spot and we settled in. For the first thee days there was only a few other people but from Tuesday the trouble started when the first students arrived.We got back from the festival around ten o clock on Tuesday night and it looked like we drove into a huge mushroom farm with all the dome tents standing everywhere..It was apparent that we picked the wrong place to spent the week of the festival.There wher hundreds of drunk students around us with loud music everywhere.Needles to say we will not go back again.
I got up at five Sunday morning that in itself is not some thing strange for me I like getting up early.The thing that irritated me was the fact that even though I was dead tired I could not sleep at all because of the loud music around us.
I left the stadium at5h30 to break down our stall and pack everything away. At seven I was back at the stadium and the drunk students. After we all watched the rugby game between South Africa and Australia in New Zealand we left the Olen stadium never to return again.
For the next few weeks we'll be busy with our bus convertion.And we hope that we will be finished for our anual trip down the Garden route to Mosselbay where we will spend the summer :-))
