I was Indeed a lovely nite and great location made a new friend Art (kubota), got to meet Pete from Belleclare , A very nice person,also I get to meet his Brother, got to meet Again Ed (ejp) , Vito and His Brother, nice people, it was great event, the weather was nice...all in all was lovely meeting you guys.
Hope To see you next year.
Mark

Hubby and I had the pleasure of meeting Ed (ejp3) about a month ago . He was very gracious to have us come to his home to pick up a tree I'd won on ebay. Very knowledgeable and helpful . He showed us some of his great trees and took the time to talk with us for about an hour ! Thanks again Ed.
Hope to be able to attend this fest next season , couldn't this year :(

Ed is really helpful and great person.

Valerie,
Are you the one who came up to me and asked if I was on the forum? If so it was very nice meeting you and nice to put a face to a name.

Pat,
 You missed a nice event. I would have loved to meet you.
As far as pictures, my wife took a few very early before things got rolling and very late.
I got so wrapped up with talking to the members and all the locals about figs we didn't even take any pictures of all the plants.
http://photos.silive.com/4499/gallery/staten_island_fig_fest_2013/index.html#/1 My wife got her picture on silive. But that's not me standing beside her.
One of the members on the forum called me on my way home to give me some ribbing. So I'm going to post a picture of me and her together.

just got back from the Fig Fest; what a great time I had! Peter put together a real nice event once again. The location was beautiful and overlooked the Verazzano Bridge.
I brought my Sister and my niece and they really enjoyed it. Thank you Peter, it was so nice to see the forum members and meet Art (kubota1) and his lovely wife. I also met Peter's brother and had some nice snacks. Everyone was so nice. A very pleasant evening. For those of you who could not attend, you missed a great time.

Vito

No, sorry that wasn't me that came up to you.  I would have like to meet people from the forum.  Maybe next year we can wear
name tags or something to help introduce ourselves.  Your pictures are beautiful.  It was a very nice place and I think everyone
enjoyed themselves.

Great pics Art , beautifully scenic . Maybe next year for me . Is that a pic of you and your beautiful wife ? Name tags or F4F tags are a great idea Valerie.

I was planning to attend, but something more important came up at the last minute.
Looks that I have missed a great event.
Well, there is always a 'maybe' for next year...

Thanks, Pattee.  If we all had something on to identify F4F we could look for each other.  There were alot of people there.  I hope we can all meet up next time.

Pat, Thanks for the nice comments. Yes, that is my wife and I in the picture.
We were glad to meet Vito in person before he moves south. He and his brother Angelo have such a nice family. Good people! Way too generous! Thanks again Vito.

You should have seen the piles of figs that Ed (Ejp) had. Another generous guy! Thanks again Ed.
Oh Yeah, Angelo's dark fig is a good one.

Next year it's going to be on a Monday night. I hope I can work things out with work so I can attend.

I would have loved to meet you and your wife also. Hopefully I'll be able to next year.