This past Father's Day, my family and I got together and did what we do best: eat and drink!
The Beer, Bourbon and BBQ Festival was held last Saturday at National Harbor in Prince George's County, Maryland. Admission to the festival was $20, but we sprang for the $30 option which included a souvenir glass and unlimited alcohol samplings from 2-6 pm.
National Harbor, despite looking creepily like a 1950s movie-set, is a new development by the waterfront offering a multitude of upscale shops, restaurants and hotels. Events such as the Beer, Bourbon and BBQ Festival seem to be held on a regular basis, which makes sense -- the waterfront is really a perfect venue for outdoor drinking.
It's also the new home of The Awakening, the weird statue created by J. Seward Johnson that was originally installed at Hains Point in Washington, D.C. in 1980 for the International Sculpture Conference Exhibition.
Though the locale was beautiful, it got a bit uncomfortable. Had the weather not been so unbearable (temperatures soared to the upper 80s), we probably would have drank considerably more. But about an hour (and several beers) in, I began to feel woozy and was forced to retire to our hotel room.
I still managed to snap a few pictures, enjoy some beer and chow down on some truly delicious BBQ:
4 comments:
I totes wanted to hit this up but A) I was on my deathbed & B) my grandma was in town, so no dice. I LOVE The Awakening, though, & really want to see it...
uhm. Pump. Is that your little brother hoisting a glass in that second to last pic?
Guys with faux mutton chops serving beer! How did I miss this???
Umm.. since when are temperatures in the upper 80s unbearable? Do you not remember your freshman move-in day?
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