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Yesterday was pretty nice despite being a bit off-time all day. We went to the Oakland Cemetary Day at the Park festival and met up with Fez, who was there with the unicycle. Saw several of our favorite people there. There were Confederate history displays and people in antebellum costumes. Eats from 6 Ft Under, The Varsity, Tin Lizzy's. Music everywhere. Steampunks and Goths. Open crypts. Very nice to see the restoration work goin on for the marble damaged by the storms and vandals and the new plantings and landscaping. They lost a lot of very interesting plants and ancient trees. Graves are still being restored. I hope they rebuild in the same materials and methods used in the park was originally. There was a lot of beautiful old stone work that I would hate to see replaced with brick or cement.

The sky clouded up and a light sprinkle started coming down, so I ran to the car to put my camera in a safe, dry place and grab a couple of umbrellas. Just as I'm walking back to the memorial park, sans camera, Atlanta Zombie Walk arrives.

After seeing Atlanta Zombie Walk stumble, creep, and drag themselves through the park, we left to make it to see ZombieLand but got tied up in construction traffic just long enough to be late for the movie so we skipped that and went home to the couch instead. I now wish we'd just stayed at Oakland a bit longer and enjoyed more of the musical performances and cheerful ambiance of the day but hindsight is 20-20, always. We still plan to see ZombieLand another night - so if anyone is interested in joining us, please let us know. It's always much more fun with friends.