GameFest 2.0

This past weekend Carlos and I visited the American Art Museum to attend a small festival to celebrate the imminent closing of the Art of Video Games exhibit -- GameFest 2.0.  The festival was held in the beautiful courtyard in the middle of the museum and it was small bu fun.  There were a bunch of console games set up so that people could play (I played Super Mario Bros. 3 and Yoshi's Island), face painting, a museum scavenger hunt, arts and crafts (Carlos and I both made cool little pixel art video game scenes, seminars, and even live video games where you could throw foam balls at a monster!

We stayed and played for a couple of hours before we visited the exhibit another time and biked home.  It's a good thing that we came home in the early afternoon because later that day, a sudden huge storm picked up and I was very glad we were home safe and sound.  It was like a hurricane outside, with trees and branches brought down by high winds, heavy (horizontal) rain, and lightning.  After the storm cleared up, we were lucky to see a very beautiful sunset, however.