Greek Food Fest

And after much delay, I have returned to bring you pictures and videos from the Greek Food Fest at the local Orthodox church the fourth weekend in May.

While I do look forward to the yummy gyros, lamb, souvlaki k-bobs, and baklava, the dancing entertainment is probably the highlight of this festival for our family. The Micro (pronounced "mee-crow") Greek dancers were adorable:

Bella danced along with the Greek circle-dances:

Gabi especially liked the Dabkeh (Middle Eastern) dancers (which she called the "duckie dancers"). I don't think I took a still photo of the Dabkeh dancers, but you can see a short clip at the beginning of the first video below. Here she posed with a young Indian dancer:

Of course, we loved the Irish dancing!

Even Katarina enjoyed the costumes, music, and dancing:

The kids wanted to go back all three hot days to see more dancing! They were hoping to get to dance in the free style dance at the end of the third day, but the official dancers were too exhausted to lead the free style and concluded early.

For your enjoyment, here are a few videos of the dancing that we saw. The first is a compilation of various Greek, Indian, and Middle-Eastern (Turkish, etc.) dances. I have more footage of these dances, but for some reason I put this together before copying all the clips from the new video camera.



The second video is a soft-shoe Irish dance, and the final one is a hard-shoe Irish dance.