It's the biggest day of the year for Christ Church Cathedral today—Strawberry Festival day!
Chad and I are meeting for a healthy "lunch" of strawberries, homemade shortcake and whipped cream on Monument Circle—along with 25,000 other people!
It's going to be a beautiful day for the big event. And it's made even more beautiful by the fact that I don't have to work it this year! :-) It's a chaotic media frenzy, which is great for the Cathedral but quite a challenge and a lot of work for the person working the communications side of it. Good luck this year, Marcella!
If you're interested too, the Cathedral has information on its Web site. Come on down! They tend to sell out of strawberries or shortcakes or ice cream (or some combination) in early afternoon, although they'll keep serving whatever they have left until the last person leaves, if necessary. Don't miss it! It's an Indianapolis tradition.
Here's a picture of the madness from my old days as communications director there, 2006. Looking back on it, I can say it was really fun, even though the day was hot and hectic! We even had a crew from the Travel Channel's "Taste of America" with us all day on this day. That was fun!
How do I work downtown and not realize that this was going on today?
Posted by: Jeff | June 12, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Thanks for the free publicity and the shout out!! I just came inside for a bit to cool off, then I am back at it. So far so good! We had every major media outlet there and everything went smoothly. I'd like to give a special thanks to WTHR 13 and Chuck Lofton for spending over and hour with us and giving us free plugs four or five times, before he even interviewed our Dean. What a nice guy he is!
Posted by: Marcella | June 12, 2008 at 03:13 PM
Excellent, Marcella! Coming from someone who knows how much work it is, let me (be maybe the first to) tell you, "congratulations!" You survived your first Festival!
Posted by: Corie | June 12, 2008 at 03:24 PM
Oh Yumm, Corie! I had no idea Indy had a strawberry fest. That would be right up my alley! Though I know Bloomy has one and I have yet to go to that either...pathetic, I know :) I hope you guys enjoyed yourselves and pigged out! And I loved the pics of the "old friends" you posted recently (wish we could have been at that second get-together last week). I feel slightly famous that you posted a pic I took with your camera :) (btw, I think you look great in that pic...smiley, but great!) Hope E's been triumphant in the toileting dept :) Been thinking of you, friend. Hope we can hang again soon! I'm looking at the calendar now! Miss ya'!
Posted by: Kelly | June 13, 2008 at 04:17 PM