Each year in the neighboring town, my next door neighbor’s church has a festival of food, fun and music. Aglaia is Greek and the festival has always been a favorite of ours because we both love Greek food and appreciate their heritage.
This year I offered Aglaia another worker for her food table, and in the end two of us worked for her. Emily came with me and we put her to work too! On Saturday we went down to the church and worked serving goodies. Here is a picture of me at my station on the dessert table, with Aglaia’s youngest daughter, Elena.
Emily and I were were in charge of the lemon squares, fig bars and apple turnovers. People would walk down the line filling up their take away box with treats.
Then they got into another line for lunch. Their were lamb shanks, pastichio, stuffed grape leaves, greek salads and more.
I love that people from the local nearby towns come and spend part of their day at the festival. I saw so many familiar faces and everyone was having fun, at the same time the money made from the festival will go into their outreach programs.
As the afternoon progressed, the children came out in traditional costumes and danced for the crowd. They were very good and I loved their costumes!
At the end of the day I was exhausted, and still had to run home make Fritz’s birthday cake, potato salad for his party today and tidy up the house. I finally sat down with Hubby at 8 o’clock and watched a documentary on the Transcontinental Railroad, before falling asleep!
Woooow, Greek festival – how exotic and how nice of you to share it with us.
Typically you: your such a nice helper and voluntary!
This costumes are amazing – you’ve captured them so well!
I’ve actually never been to Greece, but it is a very popular vacation place for Norwegians.
That sounds like a lot of fun, Maribeth! Glad you had such a great time.
We have a Greek festival in Annapolis every year that I HEAR is absolutely spectacular! I have never been once – and here all I wanna do is go to Greece! But I am WATCHIN’ for it this year! My kids LIVE in Annapolis now and I am makin’ SURE I hit that festival! (I probably already missed it for THIS year…) But their lease is for a year – so I have to hit it before the lease is up – right? So glad you had a good time! (and I would suspect some good food…)
That looks like a very fun day. Our Greek Festival is in the spring, I think. My sister goes, but I’ve never made it. Very beautiful costumes they had, too.
Looks like your nose has healed very nicely, too.
How hot they must have been!
That looks fantastic… But I do not have a fancy for Greek food… 🙁
But I do like the traditional dress the kids are wearing though, so colourful!