On Friday, July 9th, we went to the Peruvian Festival at Founders Park in Centerville for a couple of hours. Good food and good music, bands and dancers made it a great place for dinner.
The music included Cusco/Inca-type pipes, Spanish-type guitar, zumba, samba stuff..all good.
Cute kids performing.
More dancers.
Mom with a baked papas (potatoes) with crema ocopa--spicy green "gravy" and beef kabobs called anticuchos (which turned out to be beef heart, but very tasty.) Of course, I chose maracuja (?)--passion fruit juice to drink.
Dad's dinner was a rice and chicken mixture with freeze-dried (on rocks in the sun) potato chunks called "carapulcra, " plus Inca Cola.
Here's one of the dessert booths.
We chose "alfajores" (2 for $2.50) which were the best things we had all night. It was 2 thick pie dough (sort of) cookies, powder-sugared, with a thick caramel-like filling. We had to go back for another two!
Dad smiling with one of his cookies!
(The parachute gives this one away.) On Saturday, the 10th, we slept through the parade and breakfast but went to the park for lunch...good 'ole hamburgers and chips, saw some of the entertainment, and walked by the booths...I bought a cat bag for $5 and a new map of Farmington Trails for $3. We talked with friends and consumed creamies to cool down.
This trio called "The Pink Stillettoes" sang, danced and played guitars. They are 3 sisters from Alpine and were actually pretty good. They had just returned from Alabama...making a CD.
We toured the new Farmington City Offices (they had an open house and should be open for business in a few weeks), just east of Farmington Elementary. We have mixed feelings about it. It seems shoe-horned in and we continue to be disappointed that they used brick and siding and no rock (except around planters) on the exterior after so many years of requiring every other building in the city to use rocks. It has some nice features inside.
The plain-looking box "clock tower" with a cool weathervane.
We took a drive up to the temple because we have a Travel Bug that wants to be photographed with temples, churches or holy books.
It's a lovery spot where our children have married.
Yep, that's the Travel Bug called Buddha. I wonder if he has a current recommend?
Floral planting
Painted daisies
After our visit to Festival Days, we changed clothes and hurried up to the Fine Arts Museum at the U. of U. for our neighbor Sarah Bullock's wedding reception. (Her father is our bishop.) They had a live "hootenanny" band including a fiddler, mandolin player and someone playing the spoons. Lots of young parents were dancing with their toddlers. The desserts included incredible warm berry or fresh peach cobblers with whipped cream. They had a photo booth to get your photo taken (2 copies of 4 shots) and printed out and then you pasted one set of photos in the newlyweds' book. You could write a little message on a chalk board and then sign the book, too. Afterwards, we made it back to Farmington for the great (short but fast-launched) fireworks. Wow, what a weekend.
On Friday, July 9th, we went to the Peruvian Festival at Founders Park in Centerville for a couple of hours. Good food and good music, bands and dancers made it a great place for dinner.
The music included Cusco/Inca-type pipes, Spanish-type guitar, zumba, samba stuff..all good.
Cute kids performing.
More dancers.
Mom with a baked papas (potatoes) with crema ocopa--spicy green "gravy" and beef kabobs called anticuchos (which turned out to be beef heart, but very tasty.) Of course, I chose maracuja (?)--passion fruit juice to drink.
Dad's dinner was a rice and chicken mixture with freeze-dried (on rocks in the sun) potato chunks called "carapulcra, " plus Inca Cola.
Here's one of the dessert booths.
We chose "alfajores" (2 for $2.50) which were the best things we had all night. It was 2 thick pie dough (sort of) cookies, powder-sugared, with a thick caramel-like filling. We had to go back for another two!
Dad smiling with one of his cookies!
(The parachute gives this one away.) On Saturday, the 10th, we slept through the parade and breakfast but went to the park for lunch...good 'ole hamburgers and chips, saw some of the entertainment, and walked by the booths...I bought a cat bag for $5 and a new map of Farmington Trails for $3. We talked with friends and consumed creamies to cool down.
This trio called "The Pink Stillettoes" sang, danced and played guitars. They are 3 sisters from Alpine and were actually pretty good. They had just returned from Alabama...making a CD.
We toured the new Farmington City Offices (they had an open house and should be open for business in a few weeks), just east of Farmington Elementary. We have mixed feelings about it. It seems shoe-horned in and we continue to be disappointed that they used brick and siding and no rock (except around planters) on the exterior after so many years of requiring every other building in the city to use rocks. It has some nice features inside.
The plain-looking box "clock tower" with a cool weathervane.
We took a drive up to the temple because we have a Travel Bug that wants to be photographed with temples, churches or holy books.
It's a lovery spot where our children have married.
Yep, that's the Travel Bug called Buddha. I wonder if he has a current recommend?
Floral planting
Painted daisies
After our visit to Festival Days, we changed clothes and hurried up to the Fine Arts Museum at the U. of U. for our neighbor Sarah Bullock's wedding reception. (Her father is our bishop.) They had a live "hootenanny" band including a fiddler, mandolin player and someone playing the spoons. Lots of young parents were dancing with their toddlers. The desserts included incredible warm berry or fresh peach cobblers with whipped cream. They had a photo booth to get your photo taken (2 copies of 4 shots) and printed out and then you pasted one set of photos in the newlyweds' book. You could write a little message on a chalk board and then sign the book, too. Afterwards, we made it back to Farmington for the great (short but fast-launched) fireworks. Wow, what a weekend. 
3 comments:
Man, they will never retire that parachute, will they? :) Glad you had a fun time. I'll bet the Peruvian food was great.
P.S. I think the new City Hall is UGLY!
Summer is festival season right? Alfajores are pretty tastey huh? They have dulce de leche in them. The other food looks really good too. The reception sounds like it was fun;) -cute piture of you and dad!
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