A Festival that was Made for Me!

Labor day weekend - most people think BBQs, days off work and the end of the summer. Here on the Kitsap Peninsula, we think Blackberries and the Blackberry Festival!

The festival was held in downtown Bremerton, between the docks and the ferry terminal, right on the waters edge and mostly on a pier. Spanning about 2 city block lengths, it could hardly contain the billions of people who showed up on Sunday afternoon! Billions might be an overstatement... but crazy crowded isn't one. The lines for the food tents were awesomely long, but totally worth it. They had the typical fair food, but most items had a blackberry twist! Blackberry lemonade, blackberry marinades, blackberry ice creams and shaved ice, blackberry wine, blackberry pies... etc... etc... etc - It was awesome.

The wine was especially cool. Once a year, this vineyard makes pure blackberry wine especially for this occasion. They make it, bottle it and sell it only at the fair. We bought a bottle - saving it for a cold night :)



That was about it - we walked and ate for about 2 hours and that was it. A nice way to spend a pretty nice day.