Last night we had a super fun time going to the Greek Festival with Papa Don and Mimi. They treated us to an evening of yummy food and Greek dancing. The weather was perfect, the food was abundant and the dancing was......challenging. We watched lots of people dancing while the Greek band played. Then we watched young elementary and older elementary-aged children do some of the traditional Greek dances. Ella was ready to roll. She was so eager to dance, and Nicholas wanted to try it out too, so we hit the dance floor. It was so fun and it looked like such simple steps.......except for the fact that I was trying to learn the steps in real time while holding the hands of a 3 and 6-year-old. They don't slow down for beginners!! We had so much fun. We, o.k. I was out of breath.
The dancing was almost as great as the food. Oh my. Greek Salad. Lamb dinner. Appetizer plate loaded with giant chunks of feta, authentic Greek olives, hummus, dolmathes (meat/rice/yums wrapped in grape leaves.......yum), meatballs, spinakopita (which Nicholas promptly reported that it was nowhere near as good as Mimi's.......I agree!!), tiropita (cheese pie), and other yummy stuff. YUM. Then, after you've stuffed yourself, then there's the dessert. They don't have just a few choices.......no.......there's an entire huge tent where you wait in a long line (worth every minute) to walk through the assembly line pointing at that and that and that as you fill your box with tasty delights. The only thing we ate that I can even begin to spell and pronounce was baklava but we sampled probably 10 things. YUM. And Papa and Mimi bought "diples" which were little tasty morsels of deep-fried dough covered in some sweet glazy yumminess. Warm. Bite-sized. Tasty. Oh my. So after all of the taste-testing, some Greek dancing was in order to try to work off some of those calories. Nicholas asked us today when the next Greek festival is........you should have seen how much that boy ate!
