1st Day of the Food Expo

Today was the 1st day of the Western Food Expo. OMG!!!
I left Bakersfield at 7am, picked up Dale and headed down to San Diego. After a stop to drop stuff off for Nate at the farmers market we got on our way.
I was not entirely happy to be driving the Mazda with no AC in 100+ but lack of $$ this week made this a necessity. As it turned out we could not have made a better choice. The parking structure was very tight and we were able to park close to where we wanted to be with the Mazda. The truck would have been impossible.
As for the food expo: there are 100’s of exhibitors there. For those of you who have never been to an expo the point is for exhibitors to sell their wares. They exhibit all or many of the items they sell but only one of each item. Buyers come and place orders for the items. At this expo many exhibitors are selling food products, hence the food expo, so they give samples of the foods they produce.
When Dale and I walked into the expo we came into the Mexican Food area. We didn’t really know what to expect but found people picking up food at nearly every booth. We got immediately into a line and picked up food then went on to have every type of Mexican food that is made.
After walking to the end of the expo we started back the other way sampling every flavor of smoothie, beers, wines, martinis, yogurts, beef from Canada and Montana, BBQ and an incredible salmon salad.
I’m stuffed. Like Julia Child said, “I’m growing right before your eyes”.
For 5 hours we sampled food but did manage to find some containers for the cookies. We have a ton of samples being shipped to our house in all shapes and sizes.
Tomorrow we will attend our workshops after 2 hours of eating. The expo opens at 11 and our workshops start at 1. We wouldn’t want to attend a workshop with our stomach growing now would we?