March 14th, 2009 at 16:07 (Outings)
We ventured out in the rain today to visit the
2nd Annual Celtic Faire in downtown Puyallup. It’s put on by the
Puyallup Main Street Association and isn’t so much a fair as a collection of stores doing something Irish themed. It was fun to walk around town, stopping here and there for some green cupcakes or colcannon. There were men in kilts, women in Irish garb and we even saw a leprechaun! The girls really liked the bag pipers wandering the park along with the Corgis, Scotties, Sheepdogs and Irish Wolfhounds.  We had a very non-Irish lunch of hot dogs at Lucky’s Hot Dog Diner (very much recommended!) and watched the dog parade go by.
One of the really fun things about downtown is the
art.
They have sculptures on many street corners and even some building walls.
This one seems to be art within art.
And you can’t see it very well from this picture, but the cross walks on some of the streets in town have daffodil inlays. Those are the ones along the parade route. Puyallup loves it’s daffodils.
I’m just sad that I didn’t get a picture of the “saltine bed” hanging on the side of a building… one of these days I’m going to do the “art walk”.
