Washington ho!

Just got an email from the Anacortes Arts Festival yesterday. The fair is a go, though with layout adjusted per COVID limitations. Best part, though, is that they're foregoing the application process, in favor of just inviting everyone who'd been accepted for 2020 to come this year instead.

As you know, Bob, my other potential Washington show, Edmonds, rescheduled from June to August, then waitlisted me. As they're also the show with the horrendous load-in/out, involving queuing up 12 blocks up the street and down the hill, waiting to be moved in, I don't feel any great pain with deciding to decline, even if my name comes up on the waiting list.

Anacortes is a much easier situation, being spread out across seven blocks of downtown, with access via cross streets. If we're in the same general location, something they're trying to ensure, we're also conveniently close to street parking during the show. Plus we can split the drive up over two days and visit Denise's cousin in Seattle. (For some reason, it's always easier to do a long drive when you're going home. Why is that?)

So I guess I'll be going to Washington this summer after all. I'm mailing the booth fee check today.