Tunes under the Socal Skies
Buena Park Downtown held their Summer Concert Series Wednesdays at 7pm at the Krikorian Theatre courtyard. I attended 3 concerts & enjoyed the audio candy, immersed in our great SoCal summer weather.
Big Air Trampoline Park gave out balloon animal bracelets & had entry forms for a birthday party raffle.
Olive Garden handed out samples of their ravioli, pasta, salad & breadsticks to the delight of the concert goers.
Sugar Plum Festival offered complimentary face painting.
Buffalo Wild Wings served samples of their wings & various sauces. Unfortunately, they ran out before I was able to obtain some :(
Raffle tickets were on hand for various prizes from a few of the tenants at the Buena Park Mall. I made sure to secure some, as I'm a lucky guy.
The Society Band performed pop/soft rock covers of such acts as Taylor Swift, Fleetwood Mac, Bruno Mars, The Weeknd & Michael Jackson.
Yari More Band belted out Latin classics & original songs, spanning the Latin music spectrum from salsa to cumbia to merengue. Not to mention a fantastic Selena medley.
The Journey Tribute band, Lights, performed during the last Buena Park Downtown concert & they ended the series with a bang. Rudy Cardenas, the lead singer, did Steve Perry proud and belted out the classics with his strong vocals. The band even did a "Faithfully"/"Purple Rain" mash-up that wow'd the audience.
Oh, and remember the raffle tickets for various prizes I mentioned earlier? Yours truly ended up winning a centerpiece & $10 gift certificate from the Sugar Plum Festival at the Society Band concert, and again at the Lights concert with a free carwash, courtesy of Team Automotive Buena Park.
The Buena Park Downtown Summer Concert Series is an entertaining & wonderful way to enjoy the summer & groove to an eclectic mix of musical styles. Folding chairs are set up in the front of the stage, to go with the various seating arrangements at the courtyard. Guests can bring folding chairs, but security will prohibit setting them up at main walkways. I thoroughly enjoyed myself & plan to return if the concerts become a recurring summer event for Buena Park...
   Read moreWorst experience ever at the Sears Buena Park. Cashiers seems to have very low IQ ... if any. They will answer the phone and go do a price check in the middle of your transaction. Hello I was there first and don't have time to stand around and wait while you run around trying to find a price for someone thats sitting on their couch at home and who called in after I have been standing in line for my turn and in the middle of my transaction. GET A CLUE PEOPLE!! So after 40 minutes of pressing buttons on the he register he calls the manager(walking by) to come and help him because he has no idea how to do a $10 return. So manager(terrible SHARA) mumbles about something about not wanting to help him because he's a idiot. Then she comes over and complains to me that she has other thing to do. What?!?!... Well I'm sorry for being a Sears customer that have spent thousands of dollars there and have a $10 return on awful product that they sell, and her cashier has no clue how to do the right thing nor a transaction on the register. Then calls her after 40 minutes of wasted time, while I'm standing there at dinner time try my best to be patient. It took over an hour of whining, complaining, and incompetence to do a simple 2 minutes transaction. That how long it would take at Walmart, Amazon, etc... Sears needs to do a 180 or close their doors NOW so the public can get better goods and services. I've had other bad experiences with sears but still tried to give them the benefit of the doubt but now it's proven thats Sears is a waste of time! And we don't need the grief!! Anyways, for now I will go anywhere but sears....
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