Another early morning today, Yesterday Paula mentioned something about helping a lady from church out. I was more then glad to help. Little did I know that it meant more heavy lifting and moving, and to top it all off, I had to wake up at 8:30, I’m so tired of that time of day right now. Not to complain I love helping people out. I just wish I could help them out at 10 instead. We moved her house into a little uhaul trailer got some fresh home made cookies out of the deal, so you know I’m a happy camper. Then after that I had to shower and change. What for? KOLACHE FESTIVAL. In the small town of Prague, Heather and I have this friend Alexis. See, here she is.
Anyways their town celebrates their cech history by having this little fair style get together. They have people dress up in all sorts of outfits, polka dance, buy crafts, and ride carnival rides. We pull into this small town, guided via phone as to where to turn and park. Then we rode this trolley. (Kudos to Jacob white for that lyric.)
The trolley driver
Heather and I
We get there and it is hot. I mean HOT! So we chill out till about 6 when they have the crowning ceremony. Then we watch as the years previous “Queen” says her goodbye speech. Followed by the crowning of this years new Kolache Queen. To get an idea of what I’m talking about, these girls are dressed to a T. Some are rumored to have spent over 2,000 dollars on their dresses, let alone the time spent in polka dance lessons so they can learn the Polka.
After the ceremony they have a lot of left over Kolaches so they have a Kolache eating contest! The first to eat a whole Kolache and while wins. Not an easy task. I guess the closest thing to a kolache is a Danish, they have all kinds of fillings, like poppy seed, strawberry, pineapple, you know, everything fruit. But my new friend here, didn’t win. But she tried.
This place about to BLOW!!! Up with corn mill. After all this they clear the street and pour about 12 bags of corn mill on the street to help you scoot your feet along while you polka dance. As per tradition the first dance goes to royalty. The newly crowned royal family shares the dance with their parent. Cute. After that everyone joins in and it’s a polka festival!
Once the sunset I headed over to the carnival and got some great shots. With it being dark I was able to play with composition more and not worry about people walking, or picking their nose in the background. Most of the shots were about 1200 ISO and 1/13 of a second exposure times. Depending on the depth I wanted I played with the F-Stop and adjusted accordingly.
Oh this shot is my favorite, when I saw it I knew I had to get it! The way it lit up and the contrast between the foreground and the background, and the tones of pink and black. Yep.. it’s my fav.
Then we watched the fireworks. And headed home. Heather isn’t big on driving so I took the wheel. And by midnight I was walking in the door, yep notice I didn’t do P90X yet again, looks like Monday is another restart day.
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