learning

today we visited the thai cultural festival in downtown phoenix. as we have come to expect, it was not that great. not terrible, but not great thai food either. not like a free trip to thailand. tim got a laotian sausage--it was the grossest sausage i've ever had. at least our expectations were not that high this time. we are learning.

for the 6th largest city in the u.s., turn-out to these sorts of things is amazingly low. and i'm sure it is not because so many other things are going on in town and everyone else is there. i am trying to figure out if it is because the people here are lame and never leave their subdivision, or if it just that most of them have already learned that none of these festivals are very good and don't bother trying them out any more.