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Sunday, February 14, 2010

How did you get to be a stick player?

Hello.

To celebrate a current holiday (and the opening of the Olympics) Preseren Square (the center of Ljubljana) has been transformed into a carnival. A large stage has been set up, with brain-damage music blasting, people in crazy costumes, and lots of little food kiosks.

We started in a market for cheese, meat, and wine underneath a large building. There was a funny band playing. One was in a medeivalish costume with an accordion, one was in a full batman costume collecting money, and the third was dressed like a woman (no need for specifics.) And he was playing a stick.

No kidding, he had a large staff about one and a quarter inches thick, and another seven-inch long stick of the same staff, and he was banging it to the beat. Pretty funny.

Then we exited the market and went to the river, where we could hear the chicken dance from the square. Then another music started playing and a boat came up the Ljubljanica with twenty people dancing on the roof with no railings. That was funny. We enjoyed slices of Burek - pastry dough with apples or cheese or ham pizza. It was really good.

Mom and I then went of to get things for Valentines day, and dad and Avery went home.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY, by the way.

Tomorrow we leave on a skiing trip, so I don't know if I will blog again for a while.

Good bye, good luck, good eating.

G-man

2 comments:

  1. sounds like the Slovenians know how to party hearty! on and for any occassion!

    you sure have reason to party as "Hollin," made the finalist cut for 8th grade novels in the Book Arts Bash, a national novel competition for homeschoolers. thought I should "blow your horn" in case you don't.

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  2. oh oh oh, I want to learn how to play a stick. that sounds like fun, lol

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