Obviously by forceful invitation, and not because I actually voluntarily wanted to, I went to the Orange County Night Market yesterday.
The Night Market is basically a massive parking lot where shops rent out a little space where they can set up a booth and sell wildly overpriced food. That’s basically all there is at the Night Market – food. I guess there was a concert all the way in the back, and a few other vendors here and there, but the entire place is just mostly littered and blanketed with food sales booths.
There isn’t really a place to sit down either, unless it’s on the ground off in the corner. There are tiny amounts of tiny tables set up, but those are pretty much all already always occupied. Overall, it isn’t really exactly the best eating environment.
I’d imagine this is a fun place to go for people who like to socialize, but for someone like me who doesn’t want to be around crowds of people (at least, not when I’m actually a part of the crowd), it’s just an exhausting experience.
The good part about this trip, however, is that I got to meet my friend’s dog. Parking at the Night Market is just an extra fee to tack on to the admission cost and overpriced food, so instead, we drove to our friend Matt’s house, parked near there for free, then walked about a mile or so to the Night Market.
Here is another photo of the Night Market, closer to when it was getting darker, with Matt smiling in the bottom-right corner; the picture following that is of his dog Diesel, who seems to have a tail of steel.