Playtime has returned to Napaâs downtown fairground.
On Wednesday, the Napa Valley Expo reintroduced visitors to the familiar sights, sounds, and scents of merry-go-rounds, funnel cakes, and midway games â the carnival experience that was canceled along with so much else when the coronavirus pandemic struck more than a year ago.
Billed by its organizer as the Greatest Portable Theme Park, the five-day fun and food fair marks an early step back toward everyday summertime entertainment, barely a week after California relaxed most of the remaining rules on home sheltering and social distancing it had imposed to beat back COVID-19. And for the first two guests to pass through the Expo gate on a pleasantly sun-touched afternoon, the fun fair was an experience long-awaited and appreciated.