After my uncle, aunt, mom and I filled our bellies with stuffed cabbage and kielbasa at St. Sergius’s Russian Festival in Parma, we decided to walk off some of that Russian food at the Seven Hills Home Days Festival just down the road.

But when we arrived to the festival grounds, located behind city hall, it was unclear where we could park.

One lot was marked for handicapped parking while another lot was guarded by a police officer. The only other lot we passed was basically a garage driveway where people parked in the grass (and there wasn’t even room there).

We didn’t know what to do.

Eventually, my uncle asked the above-mentioned police officer about the parking situation and he instructed us to park at the nearby Giant Eagle (grocery store) parking lot and pick up a festival shuttle bus.

This was a minor inconvenience, but the shuttles ran quickly enough and any frustration we felt at the time…