The International Festival at ISB is my favorite day of the school year. It's hard to believe it was already our third festival. Time here is going by so quickly! This festival is the day where the nearly 70 countries represented at ISB come together to celebrate their culture with food, drink, dress, dance…you name it! The theme for the USA booth was "Take Me Out to the Ballgame!" So, hotdogs, popcorn, pulled pork sandwiches, cupcakes, root beer floats, Budweiser, Sam Adams, and Miller Light were served. Does that say USA or what?
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| Set up on Friday is a team effort! |
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| Miss America in the flesh! |
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| All set and ready to go! |
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Festival Day!
The USA booth looked great, and the ladies and gentlemen served with that USA hospitality. |
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| YUM! |
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| Recognize anyone in the middle of the festival program??? |
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| The festival kicks off with a parade. It has been inside for the last two years due to rain (go figure.) The bagpipes always start us off. Goosebumps!!! |
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| Here they come….USA, USA, USA!!! |
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| Someone is missing from the parade. Now a middle schooler, Allison thought she was too old. I disagree. Sniff sniff…. |
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| Allison performed with the Select Strings. She was first chair (proud Mom.) They did a terrific job! |
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| This is Heather! She was 1/3 of the fabulous team that put the festival together. She is a great friend, our neighbor, carpool partner, and dropped the bomb a few weeks ago that they are leaving. All of our friends leaving will be a post in itself. Can't think about that now. |
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| I'd say the event was well attended. This was only one of the gyms. |
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| Even our bracelets were jazzed up for the event. |
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| 2/3 of Shayna's darling children. |
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| Speaking of Shayna…this was our anniversary. We met at the International Festival two years ago. Happy Anniversary, girlie. :) |
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| I think he passed her up! |
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| I commented on my first International Festival blog that I needed to get to know the Canadians because they seemed like they were so much fun. Well, I can assure you that we have gotten to know the Canadians, they are the BEST, and we have a LOT of fun with them! |
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| Ahhh….Spain. Your food is just so good! |
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| You can buy tulips from the Netherlands. |
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| Of course, Belgium provides snacks, but the best part is the beer. Even Smurfette is having a Duvel. |
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| Allison and friends |
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| Back at the USA booth |
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| Go Cardinals! |
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| USA, USA, Canada, USA, USA |
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| Me and Lu! |
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| Loving on their favorite Aussie. |
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| Working really hard…. |
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| Our fearless leaders…FABULOUS job ladies! |
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| Yes, there was even Vegemite at the Australian booth. Chris was NOT a fan. Hahaha! |
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| Our beautiful Aussie friend Jo. That's her fabulous husband, Nathan, just above. I borrowed the last five pictures from her. Thank you Jo! |
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| Clean up time! What a mess…. |
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| We went to Mike and Lucinda's house for pizza that night. Miss E. liked my hat. I couldn't forget her on the blog. |
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| She watches a lot of Toddlers and Tiaras. She does the lip thing perfectly! |
Much to our surprise, we walked away with the ISB basket from the raffle. It was filled with sweatshirts, t-shirts, a scarf, water bottles, pennant, umbrella, duffle bag, hat, etc. Over 3,000 tickets were sold, so I can't believe we won one of the baskets. We never win! I guess I can't say that anymore. And, that concludes another International Festival. We're hoping to be here for at least two more. Only time will tell….
Until next time,
Wendy
