Opa!!!! It's all greek to me!

Dallas Greek Food Festival!

This past weekend, on Saturday, Tyler and I went to the Dallas greek food festival. Earlier in the day I went to take my final for my OB class and then we went to the festival. We got there around 2:30pm. We had fun and some yummy food and we learned about the Greek Orthodox Church. It was really neat.

Here's Tyler getting us tickets!

Tyler and I at the festival.

The yummy lunch we got with our admission tickets. We had Chicken Origanato, Kefthethes, rice, spanakopita, feta cheese and olives, greek salad and pita bread.

Since we stayed there for a good six hours we also got some snacks. Tyler really wanted to try some Saganaki which is basically fried cheese.

I tried their greek fries. They fried the potatoes in a mixture of olive and canola oil and seasoned it with oregano and kosher salt. It was weird, but not bad.

While having our fries we watched some of the youth of their church do some traditional greek dance. They called them the Holy Trinity Hellenic Dancers. They were cute, it was funny to watch them and some of them were pretty good.

I have a story for the next picture. I have always, always wanted a belly dancing costume. The past two years that we've gone to the Renaissance Festival I've been very tempted to buy one there, especially since we watch the belly dancers. I think it has something to do with my Syrian ancestry. So we saw these shawls at the festival for $20 and I pouted my way into getting one. I am in love with it. It's sooo dang cute. Now I just need to take a belly dancing class. :-)

Tyler and I on our way home, waiting for our bus ride back to the parking lot.

These are a few pictures of the Orthodox Greek Church. They were so nice and they had tour guides giving you information about their beliefs and the different symbolism in the paintings. It was very pretty inside of the church and so interesting. I really enjoyed the tour.

Here's a little snippet of some conversations we had at the festival:

Thais: I think we should have a Mormon Food Festival. Why don't we have a Mormon food festival?
Tyler: We have them, but we don't invite the whole city to it, it's just the ward. But what would we serve?
Thais: Jello salads
Tyler: ... and casseroles
Thais: OOOO and we could have everyone wear pioneer clothing and have some dutch oven cooking, Oh no... better... everything would be made using food storage stuff!!!
Tyler: sure...

While watching the dancing:

Thais: It would be so nice to be greek. They have all these traditions and these strong families that pass these traditions down to their children and it's all because of their strong pride of being greek. I want to be greek! I think it'd be fun. What traditional dances do Americans have?
Tyler: The Hoedown
Thais busts into laughs

As you can tell we had a blast. It'll be fun to go back next year!