A couple years ago, when I was dressed as Santa and slightly inebriated at a bar in Silverlake, I was reminiscing how awesome the LA Brea Tar Pits were as an Icon of Los Angeles. And I wanted to throw an event there. But what would be the perfect event at bubbling vats of tar in the middle of LA? Why, a Caveman Picnic! Two years later, I'm finally getting around to organizing it. After careful consideration, I decided to move the picnic from the tar pits, to the Old Zoo in Griffith Park - which has actual "cave" enclosures which look straight out of a caveman film set. It's very cool.
So I invite you to come on out to the 1st Annual Caveman Picnic in Griffith Park this Saturday.
Noonish until 4 or so.
How to get to the old zoo picnic area? Park in either:
- Lot 2 for the Carousel
- Old Zoo Picnic area
Then
walk a short while up the path to an open green with picnic tables and
old zoo enclosures. I will try to put up signs in the old zoo picnic
area.
I will have signs posted around the Old Zoo/Carousel 2 parking lot.
This is a BYO Everything/Pot-luck:
You may want to bring
- a folding chair,
- extra cups,
- ice,
- sangria,
- plates,
- trash bags,
- a blanket,
- hula-hoops,
- instruments,
- games,
- big foam clubs,
- extra caveman attire.
If you have extra caveman attire, games, clubs, animal costume heads, a mammoth, etc, bring them.
Activities may include: club fights, hiking, riding the carousel, galavanting, scavenger hunt, mammoth hunt, etc.
Prepare
to take a trip back in time: pre-history Los Angeles, where Giant
Sloths and Mammoth's better watch where they step otherwise they'll end
up on display in a museum hundreds of years in the future.
Introducing
the first annual Caveman Picnic. Wear your caveman or cavewoman finest
and join us at the Griffith Park Old Zoo for an afternoon of froliking
about caveman style. Roll out your fur blankets and bring that bucket
of KFC. We'll reinvent the wheel and play some caveman games.
BYO Everything. Be discrete about your beverages.
No Stoves, BBQs, fire where we are picnicing
You can RSVP on Facebook if you are so inclined.
Saw this on FB. What a fresh idea! While my M-day weekend is chockerblock, I'ma gonna try to make room for this. Me want fun! Grrr!
Posted by: DaBomb | May 05, 2010 at 01:13 PM
Sangria -- no caveman should be without... given it's a "caveman" picnic, a specific prohibition on eating utensils would be a good idea :)
Posted by: mjb | May 05, 2010 at 08:26 PM
Wish I'd made it! How was it? Lots of raw meat (aka carpaccio) and grunting?
Posted by: Susie | May 14, 2010 at 06:21 PM