April 9, 2006

  • I visited the Santa Anita Race Track for the very first time to attend the KROQ microbrew festival.
    The first impression I got was "wow, I didn't think there's still this
    many people who bet on the horses!" I honestly thought that betting on
    the horse races was a dying breed, but I was very wrong because the
    place was packed. Add the amount of people who were there just for the
    microbrew festival and we've got a huge crowd in attendance.

    I went to the park with my girlfriend, two of my friends, and also met
    up with two other friends there. The microbrew festival itself was held
    in an enclosed area in the infield area of the race track, and that
    was also well packed. My girlfriend wasn't really used to wading
    through a crowd that thick, and opted to stay out with three of my
    other friends. So it was just me and one friend of mine who stayed to
    drink.

    There literally were several dozens brands of beer that was available for us,
    but instead of going through it in a pattern, we based it randomly on
    what line was convenient to us at that time. Some lines took as little as
    five minutes to get to the beer, while others took as much as a half
    hour. The reason some lines took longer than others was because there
    were too many people who may have been drinking a little too much
    holding up the line. I've even observed some random guys taking
    pictures with random girls, just because the alcohol makes them brave
    enough to do so.  Speaking of girls, the KROQ listening female
    audience came out in full force and damn where there some hotties!

    At the end, me and my friend didn't really want my girlfriend and my
    other friends to wait too long outside, so after about one hour and a
    half in there, I got five beers in me (7oz each), while my friend
    had three. I had a nice happy buzz for the rest of the day, while my
    friends kept saying that I was really just drunk. Seriously though, I
    wasn't. Maybe I would have, if I got three or more beers in me.