Day 8 of Folklorama - Poland

 Winnipeg, MB

The Poland Pavilion

This evening we went to our 8th Folklorama event, we have 2 more after this one.  Poland was held back at the Convention Centre, the same area where the Brazil Pavilion was.  We got there early enough to get in line so we could get to the food line and I am glad we did.  The evening featured great food, drink, and dancing.

Look at all of those old people ready to party in Poland!

The food line was long but the servers were doing a great job keeping it moving.
That lady on the right has a story.  She was passing out the Ham Hocks and she had real silverware knife and forks next to her.  She was passing them out and I didn't get one and needed a fork so I reached out to get one and she slapped my hand, like legit slapped my hand.  In broken English she said something like, "No, for this only!"  Apparently Donna watched her slap the hand of the guy in front of us too.  It just wasn't clear that if you didn't order the pork hock you didn't get real silverware.

A Polish beer I have never had before.  It was lagery.

I got the sampler plate and the crepe

Donna got the hock and a plum vodka.  She wanted quince but they didn't have it.  We split the meals and it was all very good.

The dancing was all very good.  This resembled a dance you would see in Cinderella.

There was lots of spinning and stomping.

After the show we checked out the costume displays.

Greetings from the Polish countryside!

Before the walk home we hit the restrooms.  A funny thing happened in there.  Sometimes when you go to the urinal there is a young boy standing peeing into the urinal with their pants around their ankles. It's always kind of funny but they eventually grow out of it and just whip the front end out like the rest of us.  Tonight I walked into the restroom keeping my eyes forward as you do and while I was peeing I see a giant swath of white flesh out of the corner of my eye.  It was too much to be a child so I continued to pee and when I was done I walked to the sinks that were behind us and checked the mirror and there was a 70ish year old man with his pants around his ankles at the urinal.  I really had to keep from laughing.  

That's it for today.  If you missed Day 7 of Folklorama - Punjab check it out.