Another festival of sorts!

So today was a packed day for us. I met up with a friend at the huge playground where there were tonnes of other parents and loads of children. There was a cotton candy maker, waffles being sold, vegetable soup with bread/crackers for 1 Euro....and a man selling foil/helium-filled balloons for 10 Euros (supposedly half price).

The theme for this year's "Spring festival" (I don't know the proper term) - was FOOD. YES! My kind of party!
When we made it downtown there were various exhibitions and many of the museums were free today - so we cruised around and saw the "Is�"(Father) displays of photographs...portraying the life style of the past and present Father figure.
The most interesting part of the exhibition I noted was "The Good Father". There were photos of a father and his son - smoking in various photos while having in-depth conversations or fishing together. I thought "Why would he let his teenage son smoke?" But I guess one couldn't call the kettle black eh?
There was an exhibition where you had to pay 2 Euros and you got 20 pieces of candy and a rice cake and some sort of "edible glue" (I'm sure it was just vanilla sauce or something) - and tooth picks and you could build a construction of sorts. But you couldn't eat it in the room where you built your bridge/shape/house. You had to show it to the people supervising then leave to eat it. My friend's husband referred to the room as a torture chamber - I agree.
Near the university some of the kiosks that were at the playground (from 10am-3pm) had moved to the university parking lot near Tim's office, along with some tasty other bits! Like a candy kiosk...some local restaurants cooking in ginormous woks....unfortunately we ate at a Kebab house downtown. The couple we were with each got a pizza - which was ridiculously huge and such a great price....and Tim and I opted for kebab plates (like donair meat) with a small side salad. Both very tasty!

Tonight a different friend is dancing, however I don't think I will be able to make it as the real estate lady is doing a viewing tomorrow afternoon - and after 10 hours of walking and all this cleaning I have to do - I don't think I have the energy.

Maybe next year. Oh and everything is closed tomorrow...