How do you CD at a festival? - Page 2

[Linzie2]

Originally Posted by *Jessica*

The Great Blue Heron Music Festival It's in Sherman, NY (in Chautauqua County) and it's soooo much fun! And it looks like Rusted Root will be there this year! :

Sounds really great...hmmm....maybe we'll need to make a trip to the deep west of NY??? You should PM me if you decide to go, maybe we could meet up!

[kriket]

Originally Posted by sugareemoma

I was just wondering if there were any mamas on this board that tour with their kids? I miss lot life and seriously wish I could do it again!

I wouldn't but I hope you had better experences then I did. I saw too many drugs, lost children, tripped out parents. I once 'watched' a little girl that I gave a smore to for 3 days because I didn't know where her parents were.

Now, that has a lot to do with the parents. I guess it would be why do you miss lot life? Is it the travel? being outdoors? Living on what you have? The commiunity? All those things you can find if you look! Without the drugs, cops, and missing children!

[jenP]

Originally Posted by sugareemoma

the rest of the time she pooped on the grass and I picked it up like dog poo. No one thought it was gross or was offended and I would have been to scared she would 'fall in' if I tried to poop her in a porta potty!

I would have thought it was gross. Poop can have nasty viruses in it, the kind that make you puke and have diarrhea. These viruses are spread by the "fecal-oral route," meaning you get sick from ingesting even a minute amount of feces if it contains the virus. And due to incubation periods, someone can have the virus in them and in their poop while they still seem perfectly healthy. So your child poops in the grass, you pick up the turd but there is inevitably some poop left on the grass, someone else later sits there and gets the poo on their body or clothes or bag and then it gets on their hands and then they eat something and then they've got the virus. Or a fly snacks on the poop left on the grass then lands on someones food.
With all the people concentrated together at a festival, hygiene is really important or it can really ruin the festival for a lot of people. Sure, most of the time you don't have a virus so your poop isn't spreading a virus, but why take chances? "Don't sh%t where you eat," taken literally, is always good advice, also not where someone else might eat.
I would use a little potty for ec if there was a good way to wash it after, or I would figure out a way to hold baby over the porta potti so she could poop without falling in. Or I would just go with diapers for the weekend.
I hope this does not feel like I am ranting at you. I do not mean it that way. I just want to explain because I know a lot of people who do not know exactly how these illnesses get spread, and therefore don't realize how important it is to keep poop contained, covered, separated and to wash hands well after changing diapers or using the restroom.

Jen