We go to the Naperville Ribfest every year when we are here in Chicago for the 4th, and every year I think the same thing: I would never do this with kids. For all the same reasons. (When we go, Jim and I leave the child with grandma and it is a date night and we stay in a hotel after.) This year we went earlier than we usually do and I almost died from the heat -- no shade! -- and so will make a point to not go that early again, ever.