Tonight my sister Katrina and her husband Neal came to visit us. They are here visiting with their two children from New York. It is Katrina's birthday (which means it's my half-birthday :) ) so my mom and sister Kristilyn took a couple shifts watching their kids so they could get away for a date night.
We ate delicious Navajo Tacos for dinner and chatted a bit and then headed to Springville to see the World Folk Fest. They had several groups from around the world come and perform on an outdoor stage at the Arts Park. Some of the visiting dancers represented were France, Spain, Paraguay, Nepal, China, South Korea, Polynesia, and the Czech Republic. Although it wasn't as high quality dancing as the BYU folk dance team, it was really fun to see the dancers perform their own native dances.
My favorite was the Czech Republic. They were the most precise, professional, and lively with their dancing, and I also got to meet them on Wednesday when they came to my beginning Folk Dance class. They taught us some of their steps through a translator, and I even got to dance with a couple of young men from the Czech Republic group. While they visited our class, they showed us the hat dance and let us do it with them in class while their live orchestra group accompanied them. It was a cool cultural experience!
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| The Hat Dance |
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