Six food trucks and nearly 3,000 people? Definitely not enough to count on. Given the waits of the people walking with food (nearly an hour), I’d suggest packing your own picnic like we had and so many others had done. In the distance by the row of porta potties, there were long lines for the six food trucks. Maria and I brought our chairs and more foods to enjoy. They set up a table with foods and a blanket on the ground. Our friends had arrived earlier than we had and found a square flanked by four torches on the corners to call their own. At the bottom of the hill was a stage with an acoustic musician singing popular songs with some children dancing in front of the stage. The large field was portioned out by tiki torches not yet lit in rows and aisles. Walking through the knee high grasses to the ankle high grass field we checked in and received our rice paper lantern bag (with instructions printed) and a bag containing a pen and wristband. Folks brought chairs, picnics treats and tents to the Lights Festival in Philadelphia The Lights Festival field filling up with people over a few hours. With rain in the forecast and some dark and foreboding clouds, I hesitantly parked up the hill on the grass field hopeful for no rain because I wasn’t quite sure how we get through the mud. My friend Maria and I set the GPS coordinates in Waze and began our trek to The Lights Festival field in Kennett Square, PA (about an hour from Philadelphia, way out in the open field/farming suburbs) which led us down back roads, neighborhoods streets, dirt roads and finally to the road that led to the open field hosting 3,000 people (and their cars) at the Lights Festival. Finding The Lights Festival in Philadelphia But when the song Hallelujah began and thousands of lanterns lit up the sky, for a few minutes, I could enjoy the beauty of it all. I was surprised I said “yes” because it seemed like a lot of wasted time for a few minutes of social media fun. So when my friends asked me to go to the field in the middle of nowhere to light a fire in a lantern and send it into the sky as part of The Lights Festival Philadelphia on a Saturday night, they were surprised when I said “yes”. Now I get to be that old, crabby lady without having to explain myself. Festivals all day in the sun just sound exhausting with lots of downtime, too many people and traffic aggravation – frankly it’s just never been my thing even when I was young. I’m not quite the “festival in the field” kinda of girl – it doesn’t matter which field or what festival, chances are if there are porta potties, there’s a high chance that I’ll say no. Setting the lanterns into the air at The Lights Festival Philadelphia was quite simply stunning
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