28 May 2019

our first scandinavian festival.

We finally got to see what Scandinavian Days is all about.  Our participation was pretty low: just fireworks, a parade, walking around to the booths, and eating up all of the festival food for us.  But we had a great time!  Lots of events happen in the county during the summers, but it's especially nice when it's in your own town.



Theo was really hamming it up at the parade, and this was probably the first parade where he actually cared or made an effort to grab some of the candy.  Meanwhile Vivi served up all the glares and bored looks you could possibly imagine.

At one point during the parade Jon was like, "This isn't... super... Scandinavian?"  Haha.  And it's true, basically all of the parade "floats" are not related to anything Scandinavian.  Mostly for local businesses, pageant winners, and various school clubs and teams.  It was fun to see lots of our neighbor teens in the parade, I dorkily called out to each one I saw and waved like a madwoman.  



But then!  We saw a couple of people dressed up as Vikings and this AMAZING dog-wolf-dog!  We happened to see them after the parade and got to take a couple of pictures.  When we asked about the breed we were told "he's mostly wolf," so we like to say we met a wolf.  He was very nice!  A good wolf.


We ate so much good food, including the county-famous Turkey platter and the spiralized/ribboned/tornado potato.  Honestly, it's just a dang potato that is cut prettily and deep-fried, but for some reason it's special!

Anyway, yay for the Scandinavian Festival!  We are big fans and can't wait until next year!

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