South OK wine festival

It was a big coincidence that John and I found out about this community festival. We were in the shopping center looking for a mortgage broker office when we saw the posters advertising "Chateny 7th Annual Wine Festival". This wine festival was going to be held in a shopping center parking lot. I wasn't expecting too much since this seemed to be a very small event, but it was close to home, involved wine, free live music, and pet friendly. Neither John nor I are wine drinkers but we had nothing planned for Saturday evening so we decided to go check it out. Holly and Baxter came along. I love it when we can do things together, me, John and our dogs. The parking lot was transformed with a large outdoor stage, ice cream trucks, wine booths, food stalls, and a large crowd of young and old sitting on lawn chairs and picnic blankets listening to the band cover Journey. $5 for a wine glass and 5 tasting tickets. The best part of the night was the people. People here are sooo nice. Asking us how we liked such and such wine and so many others asked us about our dogs. Those two got quite a lot of treats! It was such a nice feeling to be outside surrounded by good people. It really was a community event and I was happy to feel like I belonged. I haven't felt this sense of belonging amongst a large group in a long time. Okay, so I didn't actually know any of the people there, but everyone was very welcoming and that made it easy for me to like I belonged. These little events are so much fun. We're actually planning on going to another wine festival next weekend. Although that one will be on a much larger scale.