Saturday Snapshots - Kent International Festival

My husband's sister and her granddaughter visited recently, so we've been acting like tourists. Luckily, we were able to find activities in our area that both ages enjoyed, including the Kent International Festival at the Showare Center in Kent, Washington. 

We had a great time "visiting" all the countries represented at the festival. Here are a few of the pictures I took of that event.

Have you ever tried to pick up Skittles
using chopsticks?

Crafts from Istanbul

Colorful costumes everywhere we looked

Carvings from Kenya

Musical entertainment from Mexico

According to the festival website:
Kent is the most culturally diverse city in Washington and south King County is the most diverse area of our state. Our community is made up of people from around the globe of all races, creeds and customs. About half our population has a long history in America including many minorities. The other half of our population has more recently located in our area coming from all parts of the world. All our residents live in communities that reflect this great diversity of heritage and culture. Much of this demographic mixture has happened very rapidly over the last twenty years. Our schools have students where around 140 languages and dialects other then English are spoken at their homes. Local employers have employees where often dozens of different languages are spoken by their workers.

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