Taste of Omaha & Polish Festival

I hesitate to put these events on a "free" blog since they are not strictly free.  Taste of Omaha is fun event held at Lewis & Clark Landing on the currently flooding Missouri river.  The whole point of the festival is to buy food.

Resturaunts from all over the city have booths and you use tickets rather than cash to buy food.  There we have the non-free part.  To do much of anything like ride rides, eat food or even get your fortune told, you need to have purchased tickets.

Once we had our food and had found a shady place in the grass to sit, that is when the free part came out.  On the landing there was a band playing.  The band was Velvet Crush and this honestly is the best cover band I've seen this summer.  The venue was also perfect, set on the water while we got to sit in the grass under a tree, I don't think it could have been nicer.  This would have been free if we had not bought food.

After a walk over the pedestrian bridge to nowhere Iowa and far too much walking in the sun, we got home and had all set into nap mode when my friend David called saying he was going to the Polish Festival at Crecent Moon.  Again, not a free event but it would be free if you didn't want food (or beer).

I am not sure I can envision a situration where you would go to a beer garden to hear a polka band play "In Heaven There is No Beer" and not actually get a beer.  This is probably the least free event so far.  Cheers.


Next up: Pub Quiz on Tuesday