Peter & I always complain that our least favorite part of living in Cold Lake is the lack of cultural activities. And, by 'cultural activities', I don't mean Buck-offs, Bull-a-ramas or Rodeos - because there are plenty of those to go to! Though we are surrounded by First Nations Reserves, we also live in an area that was largely settled by Ukrainian immigrants in the early 20th century. So ... there continues to be a strong presence of that culture in Alberta today - as we found out on Saturday when we attended the Glendon Perogy Festival! In its 18th year, the Glendon Perogy Festival celebrates Ukrainian culture with music, dancing, lots of perogies to eat and of course - a perogy eating contest. We drove down for lunch on Saturday afternoon and for $6 got a plate of perogies, sausage and onions.'Good' does not describe how tasty these perogies were! Ainsley looks a little funny in the picture because she was mid-bite, but she loved the perogies too!
Glendon is a very small town, with only one restaurant and a main street that pretty much makes up their village. They do boast Perogy Park, the Perogy Café & Perogy Drive which is the main street through town. In 1993, the town unveiled its roadside tribute to the perogy. The giant perogy complete with fork, is 25 feet tall and is one of the 'Giants of the Prairies', which are a series of over-sized roadside attractions that dot highways throughout areas that were settled by Ukrainian immigrants. To read a list of all the giant attractions visit this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giants_of_the_Prairies.
As an aside, I have to point out that there are many spellings of the word perogy ... I've always spelled it with an 'e', and apparently in Glendon they spell it with a 'y'.
After we ate lunch, we went over to the little play ground so Ainsley could go on the swings. There was some local musicians entertaining the crowd, so after Ainsley was done her swinging, off she went to dance around! She certainly was the center of attention!!
It was a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon. After we came home, we finished working on our fence and got it all closed in. We still have to finish the lattice work on top and a few other finishing touches. Pictures to follow soon!
Team PM & Ainsley
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Ok, so I have to ask... how do you get more than 5 pictures on one post??? I can only ever upload 5 pictures at a time!!!
You can add a maximum of 5 images at one time, but you can go back to the 'add image' option and add more if you want ... that's how I do it. Does that make sense??
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