Quite an early morning crowd on Sunday, we went out on 265 for breakfast, near BG and headed for the city about 930.... LOL... WOW!! traffic backed up on 265 past BG's. Finally made it to 76/265 stoplight and traffic was backed up east of the intersection onto the new road.. (so much for helping traffic flow).. Fnially made it into the park about 10:15, I dropped the girls off at gate so they could see the Sons of Silver Dollar, I finally got back about 1/2 way through... traffic was still backed up as I walked in..... lots of people on square, people seemed to be everywhere, even though I knew most of the traffic were Gospel goers and were going to church service at the Big Gold.. we did the train, Same skit as the rest of the year, although they forgot the quarter horse joke this time. we made it on 1st train..(barely).. After that, walked up past candy store, watched the blacksmith, watched the Strret Troupe, watched SOSD 2nd set and we were outta there, No traffic in sight when we left
The Haygoods had a special show at 2 that we had tickets for..It was a great show as always.
I checked on attendance this weekend because of sundays traffic.. sat-13,000, Sunday-15,000 ( ithink they were all there before 11:00!!). and Monday had a respectful 10,000..
Lesson learned. next year, Be at park at 9 or a little before next year, OR wait until after noon to go....... LOL
The park looked good, clean.