Fri-jo: Yeast-raised deep fried Swedish pastry, rolled in cinnamon and sugar.
Yep, we ate BOTH of those items at this year's annual Scandinavian Festival!Friday night we picked up Lizzy and then met up with our good friends Tim and Danae (and their cute little boy, Sam) to take to the downtown streets of Junction City, enjoy the people-watching, dancing, various craft booths and, of course, the tasty food. Tim, Sean and I opted for the Swedish meat pies while Danae went with a corn dog and french fries. Yeah, we made fun of her too!! ;) Who picks fair food when you're surrounded by Danish, Swedish and Norwegian goodness?! We also snacked on some Danish shaved ice (so much better than sno-cones) while Tim and Danae had Tippaleipa, aka Finnish Funnel Cake.
We stayed long enough to see the evening processional of dancers, which is led by vikings, and also ran in to Christine and her friend.
They had opted to eat Frikadeller, Rarakor and Rod Kale - a Danish dish translated to chicken patty, lacy fried potatoes and sweet and sour cabbage. Very good.
By about 9:30pm we decided it was about time to head out, but our little party wasn't over! So Tim and Danae met us back at our house where we put the kids to bed (Sam slept in our pack-n-play) and then played a round of Ticket to Ride!! Of course, we didn't get started until almost 11pm so it was about midnight by the time we wrapped things up. Oh yeah, we're a couple of real party animals!!Here are some pictures from the rest of the night (I need to steal one of Danae's family shots too)...
Well Saturday night we ended up going back to the Festival. A lady in our ward was in a musical group that was performing that night so Sean convinced Tory to go with him while I went to Jenni Jolley's wedding reception and then we met up later after I bummed a ride with Christine and Lizzy. First stop: Lizzy at the climbing wall. Nice bum shots, wouldn't you say?
She made it almost all the way to the top... twice!
And this is just us being silly with our "blue steel" looks!We also couldn't resist one last treat for the road (which we inhaled Monday night) - a
7 comments:
I have been having fair food cravings for the last month now but unfortunatly we didn't get to go. Maybe another time. It sounds like you guys had a lot of fun though and the food sounds really really good.
It was a fun time! Good food, fun people and lots of memories! :)
Those sounds sooooo good!!!! Looks like you had a great time.
Soooo jealous. I wish we were closer so that we could go....I miss it!
That looks like crazy fun!
We really enjoy reading your blog. Hope all is well.
That climbing wall...something else. You know what I mean Jenn-Jenn.
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