I first heard about the Greek Festival last year, from a young coworker who was performing as a dancer. I wasn’t able to make it then, but when I saw the notice about it this year, I made special plans to attend. It was held this past weekend, October 12-14.

We arrived around 6:30 pm on Saturday night and had the benefit of chamber-of-commerce weather – gorgeous, breezy, no humidity, still shorts-weather, but not hot at all. There was a $2 charge for adults, kids were free. There was an area for the kids to play, just a couple arm-breakers (inflatable jump rooms), and some table games. This was the only part of the place that was a bit overpriced – $5 for 6 tickets, and it cost 3 tickets to go into an arm-breaker. $2.50 per is a bit pricey, in my opinion.

There were a number of tents with artwork and crafts of the quality you would normally see at art festivals in these parts, with most being fairly reasonably priced. The vendors were definitely exhausted by the evening, with most content to sit in chairs in the back of their tent and let us window-shop.

The food was definitely the highlight, though! I enjoyed a great gyro, and immediately regretted not springing $12 for the platter of entree foods. Yum! While we ate, a band played greek music and the people attending danced traditional greek dances. The atmosphere was great, everyone was having a good time, and we even ran into people we knew so we had company to enjoy while we ate.

We missed the performances late in the evening due to a tired child, but stopped at the dessert booth on the way out to grab some baklava, my wife’s favorite greek dessert. She tells me it was wonderful.