As the day went on, the crowd got steadily bigger, until it was actually respectable, like maybe 300 people. And this was a very talky, chatty crowd, with lots of kids running around, that it was quite fun to be part of. More sophisticated than one might imagine, too, as when I went up to the bar to score a beer (price not recorded, decent selection) I overheard two patrons complaining that.....

I actually feel like scoring one too :-)
M.