Oktoberfest with Family

My cousin Lizzie and her husband Thomas came to visit us in Long Beach this past weekend and we ventured to an Oktoberfest event that was both kid friendly and dog friendly, so we could bring all of our babies, both the fur- variety and the human- variety.

We posed for one of these nifty pics:

Camille doesn't quite get it, and we adults may have had some beers by this point, but such is life.

It was up our street, Elm Ave, at the Scottish Rite Temple (a Freemason building and home to the rad Ernest Borgnine Theater) grounds, had big tents set up, and had a (relatively) rockin' polka band.

I joked when we got their that the band, and polka in general, is what white people would come up with musically when left to their own devices and not influenced by the creative passions of a formally-enslaved and currently-oppressed people.

It was super cool, especially to hang out with family, which I'm trying to improve on---my imposing on family so our kids feel like they are part of a family.

It's always fun, though.

They gave us return tickets for this weekend, because of the purchase of these tickets, and we'll head back for a beer on Saturday afternoon. We'll keep it far more mellow this weekend.