My wife and I are Festival People.
By day we may look like ordinary citizens, but come festival time we fit the part. We put on our festival logo'd shirts, festival logo'd hats, festival ID wrist bands, the occasional festival party beads, and of course our comfortable shoes.
Because we're of Irish heritage, we lather on the sunscreen to keep from turning pink. Which happens anyway, because in the excitement of the event, we fail to pay attention to how well we apply it.
We get the temporary tattoos, we drink the cold beverages, we listen to as many bands as we can. We meet new, interesting and sometimes unusual people. We enjoy being outside all day and eating food served on sticks. We enjoy shopping for Irish trinkets (ok, Sarah may be more into that), the Irish heritage exhibits and checking out the original artwork.
And while we prefer Irish Festivals, we've been to Greek, German, Mexican, Italian and even Oyster Festivals. Yep, Festival People and proud of it.
But for our festival, we'll be looking more official. Sure, we'll have the comfortable shoes and the sunscreen. But we'll be wearing the standard gold Site Hosts shirts and being helpful. But underneath it all will be two sunburned tattooed Irish folk getting their Fest on.
Come join us won't you - and bring some sunscreen.
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Just remember to be VERY careful with the sunscreen application when wearing rub on tattoos.
Near the end of this past July I came across a KCIF rub on tattoo that had been put away in a "safe" spot (which always seems to equal being lost for some reason....) and wore it and another rub on tattoo. Unfortunately, this was while I was out on a lake canoeing and I didn't use enough (read "any") sunscreen. I still have big white "reverse tattoo" marks on my upper arm that look QUITE odd.
And just in case you wondering, no, fake tan doesn't help cover it up. :)
I left the KCIF one on for the week and a half or so that it lasted and got LOTS of comments out in public...waiters made comments like "nice tat" and I had to admit it was a rub-on. Several people suggested I get that design for real. Er. No. I love KCIF a lot, but permentantly marking my body? Not gonna happen!
You'd think it would be a case of lessons learned, but I guarantee that if they are available this year, I'll be sporting a KCIF rub-on tattoo in a couple weeks.
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