International Day for the festival

Saturday was the big International Day in Waynesville. We had a late breakfast and went downtown about 11. The performers from Folkmoot do various dances throughout the day, and many vendors set up tents to sell crafts, etc The performers also sell items they have brought with them. Selling them helps pay their travel expenses to this country. Once they are here the festival provides everything for them. We found a tent where children could do crafts and the girls worked there almost all of the time we were downtown. We went to O’Malley’s for lunch because Stacy wanted to have a beer. I had one too, but we aren’t ever going there again. The rest rooms are poorly maintained, the service is very slow, it is very noisy, and we were told that 2 of the items we had ordered were unavailable. This has happened before. We walked to the library to get some books and came home. We had planned to have crawfish etouffee for supper but had eaten so late at lunchtime, we decided to snack. Elizabeth and Rosalie went with us to HCC to help usher and did a fine job. We stayed for the first 3 acts and came home. We had popcorn and visited in the evening. We had found that some of the items in the tent were wet because someone had left the window open during the rain, so everything was brought back inside for the night.