For those who were not witness to the elaborate preparations involved in holding a Bastille Day Petanque Tournament in the middle of the busy Brooklyn streets... think about the permits involved, the tons and tons of sand trucked in and spread out by back-hoes and hand-rakes. The Hundreds of measured boards laid down carefully to form the individual courts. Then there's the registration process, the many booths that line the sides of the courts serving up food and beverages. Not to mention the scoring, the announcements for team play, and the award ceremony. It is a daunting task and I was honored to see some of this process on Sunday morning (10:30am).
Eager to get a feel for the terrain, I tossed a few boules into the - as yet - bumpy sand surface.
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