Kickin Off The Weekend

Is it even Labor Day weekend if you don't attend the Greek festival?! xo 

Scenes From The Greek Festival

Last night at the Greek festival. Music, dancing and the best Greek food around! Labor Day weekend wouldn't be the same without it! xo

A Labor Day Weekend Tradition

It wouldn't be Labor Day weekend without stopping by the Greek festival in town. Gyros, pastitsio, baklava sundeas, and Greek dancing made for a truly perfect Saturday evening. The weather was glorious, the food was delicious, and getting to share a meal with some of our dear friends was absolutely spectacular! xo

Greek Festival Deliciousness

It wouldn't be Labor Day weekend without our town's Grecian Festival. We wait all year for the delicious Greek food (the baklava sundae truly is a little bit of heaven), the wonderful Greek music and dancing, and the chance to support our friends and their lovely church. Thank you, Saints Anargyroi, for putting on this festival year after year! May this be your most successful one yet! xo

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{This Moment} Candlelight

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Sunday. At The Greek Festival.

It wouldn't be Labor Day weekend without attending the Greek Festival in our town. While some people think cheeseburgers and hot dogs on Labor Day weekend we think gyros and baklava (especially the divine baklava sundae)! Dave and I have attended the festival every year since we moved to town (and therefor the girls have attended every year of their lives). It, along with our town's Labor Day parade, is what makes this holiday weekend so special for us. And as if tradition wasn't already reason enough to attend the festival, this year we have the added bonus that we've become friends with the priest and his family! Our girls and their oldest daughter are in Girl Scouts together and we've all just hit it off swimmingly!

Dave has spent all weekend working to help get a new Williams-Sonoma store ready to open at the end of next week, so the girls and I decided to head over to the festival this evening to see what was going on. We figured that as long as we didn't have dinner or eat a baklava sundae that it would be alright to get a sneak peek sans Dave. When we arrived we made our way over to the tent and were excited to see that we'd arrived in time to get to see some dancing. Surprisingly enough this is the first year we've arrived in time to get to see a performance! Usually the dancers are leaving the stage when we are arriving. 

Tomorrow we'll head back with Dave and have our usual meal. Until then I'll be dreaming of that baklava sundae!

Weekending

Baklava Sundae from the Greek Festival.

Grace's latest artwork.

Baklava: It wouldn't be Labor Day weekend without it.





Opa!

You know that it's the end of the summer when the local Greek festival takes place.  There is nothing like a gyro for lunch and some baklava for dessert (or in our case a baklava sundae)! 

Doesn't it look yummy?!

We're looking forward to next year already!

Labor Day Weekend Fun

Labor Day weekend always brings two big events to our town.  The Greek Festival and the Labor Day Parade. I had never heard of a Labor Day Parade until we moved here seven years ago, but evidently the town has been doing this for eons, and it's the state's largest Labor Day parade.  Not hard I suppose when there are not that many to contend with.  


Last night we headed to the Greek Festival for dinner.  The girls shared their first gyro (so yummy).  

And we all shared an order of loukoumades.  

Emma likes to enjoy hers while dancing. 

There were also cookies eaten. 

And of course, no trip the Greek Festival is complete without some baklava!

We strolled through the greek market, 

where we got a good laugh out of this t-shirt .

The girls loved all the jewels.   

Today we went to the Labor Day parade.  

Every good New England parade has some type of colonial re-enactment/fife and drum corps.  

Dave and I both commented on how it felt more like a 4th of July or Memorial Day parade.  

The Hallamore Clysdales were in attendance too.  

And so was Abe Lincoln.  He attends every year.  

After about an hour Emma asked to go home to go "a-night".  This sweet little fell asleep sitting up just before we got home.  Clearly, she was tired! 

We hope all of you had a wonderful, long holiday weekend!  Enjoy the rest of the day!