Its festival season here in the South too (not just in India!).
Last weekend, LP & I took the girls to the Harvest Festival in Inman. I don't know if you've been to Inman but I have. And based on my past visits there, I did not have high expectations for this festival. I was totally wrong. It was much bigger and better than I thought it was going to be.
Kiran got her face painted
Sienna ate lots of funnel cake
Today Jonathan and I took the kids to the International Festival downtown. This festival rocked. I loved it. We:
- were begged by a Cambodian to go to his country and tell people about Jesus
- traded stories with an Indian who was from Rajastan but worked in Delhi
- met a Filapino lady who lives near us and promised to teach me how to make Filapino egg rolls (and promised to have my fave meat on a stick dish at next year's festival).
- ate empanados from the Dominican Republic, brats from Germany and egg rolls from the Philippines
I loved hearing all the different music playing and seeing all the different traditional dress. I think every culture has something unique and special to hold on to. I don't like seeing countries become all Westernized to the point of losing their cultural identity.
We don't have any more festivals planned right now- are there any good ones coming up?
6 comments:
Fun! I love any kind of festival season! Awesome :)
I LOVE and totally miss Filipino Egg Rolls - YUM!! What are they called again? Lumpia? Something like that I think :) You should definitely take that Filipino lady up on her offer! Awesome! I'm totally going to look those up online right now :) I'm totally drooling :) haha!
Yay for festivals!
After reading your post last night, I had a dream that I found a "Fall Festival" cartoon DVD, then thought "Kiran loves festivals!" No more reading blogs before I go to sleep...
I keep missing our international festival here. Yours sounds awesome, and has really made me want to go to some festivals!
wish we could have gone with you guys!
and, yes, filipino egg rolls are called lumpia :)
Sounds great!!!
i'm so upset bc i missed the festival. in fact, i had no idea when it was and where it was. next year, pls knock on our door so we can go with!
there is an awesome thing at Stewart Farms but there is a small fee. we are going for The Big Boo on the 23rd. u interested?
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