Picture of the Day - Cow Parade

Today I worked an eight-hour parking shift in the field at Madonna Inn which was hosting the one-day-only Cow Parade event. The organizers expected abouit 2,500 guests when, in fact, about 10,000 showed up. This coincided with a Home Expo up the hill on the same property at the Event Center here. The resulting traffic nightmare was a veritable Car-Mageddon with bumper-to-bumper traffic snaking back from Madonna Road to the Event Center and into our parking lot nearly paralyzing it. Traffic coming in backed out onto the 101 Freeway at times. We held our ground and made it work despite that and the heat we endured. Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).