Last Saturday was the International Festival in Spartanburg!
Totally my favorite festival-y thing Spartanburg does!
They have food from all sorts of countries, the 'avenue of nations' with booths for different countries, and a marketplace area. Also they had three different stages with shows and a kid's area with free crafts.
Okay, so I thought it'd be fun to show you the booths of my heritage:
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| Denmark (probably around an 8th) |
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| Poland (about a 4th) |
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| Ireland (adds up to about a third) |
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| France (a tiny amount) |
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| Scotland (probably about an 8th) |
I am also a little English and a miniscule amount Spanish, but England and Spain didn't have booths.
And of course, I am really from:
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| the United States |
and I'm soon moving to:
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| India! |
At two o'clock they had the parade of nations. I cheered for India and others of y heritage. And ringing up the rear was the USA... and my friends and I jumped in the parade, chanting, "USA!" It was HILARIOUS!
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| these were the guys we marched with. |
For lunch I had a Honduran chicken taco, red pepper humus with Armenian flat bread, and cinnamon raisin pretzels with fig sauce. All for $5! (I shopped around.)
I watched two shows: belly dancers and music from the Cherokee nation.
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| a spirit flutist from the Cherokee nation |
There was also a sports area, where I filled out a sports trivia questionaire and got a free backpack!
I didn't buy anything in the market area, but Katie and Lydia both got coolie hats. Katie also got a Guatemala jersey. Lydia also got metal chopsticks. (I was *really* tempted by a parasol and an ostrich puppet. But I told myself to wait to buy stuff when I go to India!)
After a while we went and took a reak going to the Science Center, where my sister let us play with a snake.
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| Katie with "King Charlie" at the Science Center |
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| my sister helping Lydia |
All in all, it was a great, fun day!
Last Saturday was the International Festival in Spartanburg!
Woo! Good day. Yes randomly joining the parade was the best. And king charlie.
ReplyDeleteHey there - just found your blog!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like such a good time - I wish we had a festival where I live. I think we have one in November though, how exciting! What great pictures :)
xo, Heather
http://heatherfrostx.blogspot.com/
How fun! I hadn't read your blog for awhile and when I went to Brooke's blog, there you were! So I had to pop over here. That festival looked like a lot of fun, and randomly hopping in the parade? Yes please!
ReplyDeleteCinnamon raisin pretzels?! They sound like yum!
ReplyDeleteSarah @ A Cat-Like Cusiosity