Food and drink stands will be available, although not on the event grounds proper.
Once I was inside the event grounds, I was too obsessed with the plants to really notice anything else.
But festival organizers said they had been careful to keep the event grounded in its original purpose.
The mall and the event grounds are so close and seamlessly connected that they could easily be confused for a single development.
A huge parade of services personnel - young and old - kicked off the proceedings, marching from Stirling Castle to the event grounds nearby.
The Man No Burn would be complete without its Man, which lives at the apex of the event grounds and burns to the ground in a sea of fireworks at the end of the week.
Previously, people who bought tickets to this year's Coachella festival were given a VR headset with access to a virtual tour of the event grounds, as well as interviews and performances by artists from the festival.
Following a tremendous rainstorm that turned the Chattahoochee Hills grounds into a disgusting pit of mud and human refuse, the festival's organizers decided it would be best to limit transportation service to and from the event grounds, stranding tens of thousands of soggy ravers on the come down.
And sure enough, pulling into the event grounds felt a lot like entering any rural Wyoming fair: RVs and pickups parked among sagebrush, vendors selling barbecue sandwiches and T-shirts, attendees milling up and down the midway, and dozens of tents standing in a row, like those ubiquitous canvas outfits you see at farmers' markets and festivals.
The parade will wind its way from Stirling Castle through the Old Town, with cadets and veterans joining at the Albert Halls before making their way to the events ground at the Royal Parklands.
