Greek and SAM

We're a bit surprised by how many greek restaurants we have within walking distance to our house. We can think of at least 4, and that doesn't count Pete's Eggnest, which is a breakfast joint owned by a Greek family. In any case, they all have flyers in their windows advertising the annual Greek Festival so, of course, we head over to check it out.

First of all, we were taken aback by the size of the event. It's held at a Greek Church, but I guess the grounds of it are huge because they had an outdoor food tent set up that was as big as a gymansium. Merry greek tunes were being played onstage while we walked around and got a gyro, dolmas, and some greek pastries - baklava (yum!), pastelli (a sesame honey candy that was terrific) and Melomakarona (an orange-flavored biscuit that was ok). It was fun walking around, and made us want to go back to visit the Greek islands!

After stuffing ourselves, we headed downtown to the Seattle Art Museum since Saturday was nationwide free museum day (put on by the Smithsonian). We shouldn't have been shocked to see how long the line to get in was since everyone loves a free entrance fee, but still, we were impressed with how busy the museum was.

Sad to say though, the museum was really not very good. It is 2 big floors of all different kinds of art (paintings, photography, porcelain, scultpures, installation etc) and it covered the gamut of art history (ancient greek, european, modern, native american). But, I think because it tries to cover so much, it didn't really do any particular segment all that well. Oh well, at least we can say been there, done that... for free!