This past weekend Georg and I went over to the university-area to check out the Fringe Festival and visit the Old Strathcona farmer's market that I'd heard so much about.
The farmer's market was nice...there were many booths and since it's indoors, it can run all year long. I look forward to coming here in the winter to buy squashes and cabbages and other winter vegetables. They also seemed to have a good selection of organic meats and fish, which I'd like to try when I have a little more money to spend on food! I do, though, prefer farmer's markets outside, because in the summer I like to be in the sun, and it doesn't seem to get as crowded outdoors. For this reason, I might continue to go to the downtown farmer's market while the weather's still nice.
The Fringe Festival happens every year in Edmonton along Whyte Avenue by the university. This year it lasted about 10 days. Outside on the street there are food stands and street performers, and inside in certain buildings there are shows featuring many types of entertainment for which you buy tickets. Georg and I didn't get the chance buy tickets to see any of the indoor shows, but the Saturday before the Fringe Festival closed we decided to go to Whyte Avenue to see what we could see anyway.
It was a lot of fun! There were lots of street performers (doing mostly balancing acts), and the man above demonstrated riding on a really tall unicycle. They had food stands and beer tents, so when we got hungry we got greasy food and beer.
There was a section of the festival where freak shows and other "marvels" were situated, and as we walked through it I couldn't help but want to see the Weed Woman. I knew it would be a joke, but the way the guy outside the tent was promoting it, I couldn't refuse. The promotor used kind of an old-fashioned voice and kept making these grand statements about how awesome the Weed Woman was. He was so funny! Of course, two dollars later when I went in and saw her, it was just a woman dressed in a plant suit, but it was still fun.
This past weekend Georg and I went over to the university-area to check out the Fringe Festival and visit the Old Strathcona farmer's market that I'd heard so much about.
The farmer's market was nice...there were many booths and since it's indoors, it can run all year long. I look forward to coming here in the winter to buy squashes and cabbages and other winter vegetables. They also seemed to have a good selection of organic meats and fish, which I'd like to try when I have a little more money to spend on food! I do, though, prefer farmer's markets outside, because in the summer I like to be in the sun, and it doesn't seem to get as crowded outdoors. For this reason, I might continue to go to the downtown farmer's market while the weather's still nice.
The Fringe Festival happens every year in Edmonton along Whyte Avenue by the university. This year it lasted about 10 days. Outside on the street there are food stands and street performers, and inside in certain buildings there are shows featuring many types of entertainment for which you buy tickets. Georg and I didn't get the chance buy tickets to see any of the indoor shows, but the Saturday before the Fringe Festival closed we decided to go to Whyte Avenue to see what we could see anyway.
It was a lot of fun! There were lots of street performers (doing mostly balancing acts), and the man above demonstrated riding on a really tall unicycle. They had food stands and beer tents, so when we got hungry we got greasy food and beer.
There was a section of the festival where freak shows and other "marvels" were situated, and as we walked through it I couldn't help but want to see the Weed Woman. I knew it would be a joke, but the way the guy outside the tent was promoting it, I couldn't refuse. The promotor used kind of an old-fashioned voice and kept making these grand statements about how awesome the Weed Woman was. He was so funny! Of course, two dollars later when I went in and saw her, it was just a woman dressed in a plant suit, but it was still fun.
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that looks like fun!!!
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