International Festival

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:

Denmark (probably around an 8th)

Poland (about a 4th)

Ireland (adds up to about a third)

France (a tiny amount)

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:

the United States

and I'm soon moving to:

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!

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.

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.

Katie with "King Charlie" at the Science Center

my sister helping Lydia

All in all, it was a great, fun day!