Greek Festival

There are so many local Fall activities and traditions that we enjoy. Once school starts, I always know that the Greek Festival is close!

We have found that our favorite time to go is Friday afternoon (before people get off of work). We can walk right up to the food line (for those of you who go to the Greek Festival – no, we don’t wait for hours in the serpentine line under the tent), get our food, and sit close enough to actually see the dancers. This year we sat right behind the stage. The back is open, so we were able to see quite well. The dancers were great, as always!

They came off the stage right by us. Rara kept trying to convince Ryan to go over to the “pretty girls” to get his picture taken. No, he is too cool for that now.

I debated buying tickets for the bounce houses. Ryan doesn’t enjoy most of them as much as he used to. But he spotted a couple of his favorites, so I bought a few tickets. He decided that he wanted to do the boxing, but two people are needed for that one. Ryan turned the tables on us as he then tried to convince all of us to go do the boxing with him. As we were talking, we saw two kids going in. There were three sets of gloves, so Ryan ran over and asked if he could join them. They said he could. However, once he got in and they realized how much bigger he was (they hadn’t even started boxing yet), they hopped out. Ryan was devastated! He came back over to us in tears. Most of you know that Ryan is really a softie. The thought that he may have scared younger kids away really bothered him.

As we were consoling him, we spotted a kid that looked a little bigger than Ryan. He was a volunteer at the Festival, but it looked like he was on a break, and was looking around to see what he wanted to do. We convinced Ryan to go over to him and ask if he wanted to box. Ryan was hesitant due to the prior experience, but he did. The kids had a lot of fun.



Interestingly, Ryan’s principal (Ms. Jan Rawlins) always goes to the Greek Festival on Friday afternoon, too. We have seen her every year. I volunteer in Ryan’s classroom every Friday, so that morning she asked if we were going. We told her we were, and that we’d watch for her. We looked for her the entire time, and spotted her as we were leaving.