Polish Festival 2006

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Czesc!, we heard on the telly this morning of a Polish Festival in Roseville, with camera in hand and drooling at the mouth at the thought of grilled Kielbasa with Kapusta, Perogies, Paczki, Placki Kartoflane and Okocim Polish Beer we headed straight for Roseville and the 17th Annual Greater Sacramento Polish Festival. Now, we have yet to visit Poland, our planned visit to Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary in 2007 was re-scheduled for 2009 so, this is as good as it gets till 2009.

In any event, we visited Poland vicariously though the Polish American Club of Greater Sacramento. The event was put on to celebrate, preserve and share Polish food, customs and traditions with the community. We met and chatted with many friendly people as is our custom and enjoyed the food, beer and outside stage entertainment.

The Lowiczanie Folk Dance Group from San Francisco, and the Regula Sisters provided wonderful entertainment while we sampled all the food and beer offered - we had a great time. See you next year, Do Widzenia!

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Photos

All Day Party at...
The Polish American Community Hall, Roseville, CA

All Dressed Up
So, Let's Party!

Under the Big Tent
at the Polish American Community Hall

Direct From San Francisco
Lowiczanie Folk Dance Group Director Mary Kay Stuvland in Traditional Costume.

Traditional Polish Dancers
Lowiczanie Folk Dance Group

Holly with Friends
Nice Smiles and Costumes!

Nice Dancing
and pretty costumes

Nice Clean Undies
The way it should be, mother always said "wear clean underwear in case you get in an accident" mother was right, she really knows!

Grilled Kielbasa
Boy were they good, I could have had two all to myself. Oh! don't forget to put plenty of Kapusta on it - yummy!

Holly makes Friends
At the Placki Kartoflane Booth and they were soo tasty too

Holly and Friends
The Dance Group and Evelina in the center, she's from Poland and quite pretty

Making Music
Chet Chwalic on Keyboard and Bogdan Komorniczak

Comments

[Hugh n Angie]

You guys really are "Cool" travelers
Great pictures, looks like you had a great time as usual. We are really looking forward to the possibility of our honeymoon in Europe, you can help us plan.

[Jennie]

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[Mary Kay Stuvland]

looking back to Roseville 2006
It was great to see these pics that I actually hadn't seen before! We were just up in Roseville on the 8th. Wonder if it would be possible to get these images from you (downloading I think they lose quality?) Thanks for posting! Best regards / czesc! Mary Kay

[Cool Travelers]

Hi Mary
Send me an email address and I will find and send you the pictures.