When was the last time you attended a Greek Festival?  Opa!

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I <em>think</em> the last time for me was when I was in high school.  It was in Houston, and I <em>think</em> it was a smallish Greek Festival in a parking lot of a local Greek Orthodox church.

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Sorry for the hazy recollection, but my memory (or lack thereof) scares me.  (Help me out her, sis and Carolyn!  I'm sure on of you were with me circa 1986!)

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I've <em>heard</em> of the Greek Festival here in Phoenix for years, but I had never been.

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This year, I couldn't escape the advertising.  Everywhere I looked or listened, it was "Greek Festival".

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Oddly, most of the sightings were at work.  There was a never-ending supply of Greek Fest Flyers in the small coffee nook.  There were full-colored Greek Fest pullouts from the<em> Arizona Republic</em> in the lunchroom.  I racked my brain trying to remember if I worked with any Papadopouloses or Onassises, but I didn't <em>think</em> so.

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Where was all this Greek Fest propaganda coming from???

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I think I even heard a Greek Fest commercial on the radio.  I <em>think</em>.

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Remind me to take more fish oil.

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I needed to check out this Greek Festival to see what all the fuss was about.  Opa!

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I convinced The Buckeye Who Prefers to Remain Anonymous to escort me.  I envisioned us walking up to a smallish parking lot, snarfing a bit of hummus and falafel, and then wondering what to do with the rest of the evening.

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This was before the shuttle bus pulled up to the church with a sprawling campus.

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(You would have thought I would have caught a clue about the size of this festival when there was a shuttle bus.  Sadly, I did not.)

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(You would have also thought that a fully occupied bus heading to a Greek Festival would be full of rowdy festival goers shouting "Opa!"s, but yours truly was the only one in The Greek Fest spirit!  Even The Buckeye refused to cooperate.)

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As we deboarded the  shuttle bus, we noted swarms of people crossing an extremely largish parking lot to get to indoor and outdoor festivities.    The indoor festivities contained the food and shopping, so it was logical that we head there first.

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[caption id="attachment_11454" align="alignleft" width="300"]<a href="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=11454" rel="attachment wp-att-11454"><img class="size-medium wp-image-11454" title="IMG00287-20121012-1856" src="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/IMG00287-20121012-1856-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a> Bread on the circular table. All desserts on the long rectangular table. Opa![/caption]

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