Busker's Festival/Rude people
 
Carley and I went to the Busker's festival tonight (it required some shift switching, and we were both pretty dead after it) and it was really quite excellent.  We went last year, and it was good, but this year outdid it.  The best act was a guy from Boston named Stitch, who's interaction with the crowd was great.  He had one little helper kid, although throughout the performance about a half dozen other kids ran on to "assist" him - which basically meant they knocked things out of his hands and tried to push him over.
 
The biggest difference between this year and last came right at the end, when all of the performers did a little mini-version of their shows, so that everyone could see what they'd missed or what they could see on Saturday.  Once again, Stitch stole the show, by doing nothing more than flipping a fedora on and off of his head.  It shouldn't have been as good as it was, but it was.
 
There is also a vaudeville show featuring the performers on Sunday, a change from the usual schedule of three days of busking.
 
As for the rude people, really, do you have to smoke in the middle of a crowd?  Particularly a crowd with kids in it?  I mean, we're in the middle of the main street of the town, for God's sake, you couldn't move off to the side long enough to finish?  Let's be like Waterloo, no smoking - anywhere.