Ethnic festival junkies

Yup, that's what we are, even if we aren't even the ethnicity being celebrated.
Here's Myles trying to be a Viking at Mt. Jewett's annual Swedish Festival.

I'll have more up in the next day or so, like pictures of a half-scale working model of a Viking ship (by the way, one reason I adore my husband is that when I told him it was a half-scale model, he said, "So only 40-feet long"). And explanations why I just cannot keep away from these ethnic picnics.

Comments

Anonymous said…
there actually is a very good chance that there is some ethnic connections since the Vikings were responsible for much of the light colored hair or red hair, and blue eyes thae so many people associate with the Irish. The Vikings actually established "permanent" settlements along the coastline of Ireland.
And doesn't everyone know that Viking long boats were typically 80 to 90 feet long?
BTW, I can't believe that i was actually able to log on today for the first time in weeks.
Jen Ambrose said…
Randy,
Certainly the evidence of Nordic genes is throughout the Ambrose family. Look at all those darn red-heads! And the "true" Irish---all the dark-haired Ambroses (before many of them went grey). However, our ethnic traditions little resemble the Swedish heritage celebrated in Mt. Jewett. No St. Lucia, no lutefisk.
I can't believe you got on, too. The typhoon must have caused problems with your personal censor.