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Saturday, September 09, 2006

Five elements (2)

Tonight A-dawg and myself did it Greek-style at the local Orthodox Church festival. We rode our bikes down the street and locked them to handicapped parking poles. Highlights:
-Alli told me my white tanktop and jeans were inadequate attire for the festival. Apparently she had never met a Greco-American. I'm just saying.
-There was a bouncy castle shaped like the Parthenon. I think it was the Parthenon, I didn't really look closely. It was blue. Calm down.
-The gyro line took over an hour and a half to get through. We weren't planning on drinking but have you ever tried waiting in a line without cans of Budweiser? First-world nightmare.
-There was a ten-year-old kid running the booze station. I asked for Bud, he brought Bud Lite. Like an American tourist in Greece, I raised my voice, annunciated 'red and white can' and pointed. He got the Buds but then tried to give them to the old man on my right. You just can't get good service.
-The entire time we waited in line, a small girl on her grandaddy's shoulder glared at me. Her little face was wise and determined. Maybe me and Greek women are born to feud (reference Library of Congress subject header Jesse and Nicole.)
-A little boy with a gold cross and cascading curls came and sat with us while we ate. At one point he made a play for my beer. When I took the can away, he squealed and ran off. A bit later, the boy came running over with a little friend. Alli was quite smitten and yelled "I love you," causing him to run away again. Hey Alli, be cool, do you want to register with the police every time you move to a new neighborhood? Do you?
-I have never eaten a gyro so sweet. Worth every minute of waiting. Damn.

Photos: Please excuse the quality, I'm using my crappy camera phone because I can't find my camera batteries. I'll say it again, life in this country is long and hard.
1)Man shaves gyro meat using electric scalpel. Rebecca, could this count for the *contest* in an abstract way?
2)Opa! The Greeks love to dance in a circle.

2 Comments:

At 10:20 AM, Blogger aprildawn said...

the pastries! did you have the homemade pastries?? ernie and i went last year and almost ate ourselves into a honey and filo dough coma.

 
At 1:38 PM, Blogger jesse said...

Weirdly enough the honey filo pastries didn't arrive until Monday night at the Abbey Lounge, when my friend Carina produced them out of her handbag.

 

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