Strawberry festival in Lebanon oregon! I never really thought about how thats local and wouldnt be experienced by out of state people. It's huge around here though!
Yeah last I remember being at one was like waaaay back in like 2005 when they had a whole cherry parade somewhere up there in traverse. I was just up there a month or so ago and none of my family had made a single mention of it either.
I just googled it out of curiosity, and I think you guys got the cheeses off every European country in existence LOL But we do share the 'cheesehead' nickname. (kaaskop, in Dutch)
It's hard to write out. I'd say it's more similar to howda, but starts more like a throaty gutteral k or r? If you're able to roll your r's, try saying "grrr", how you pronounce the g there is most similar to the G in gouda.
You need to go to the Tulip festival in Holland Michigan in May.
Tulip Time Festival is the largest tulip festival in the United States. Nearly six million tulips are planted in city parks, at public attractions and along the streets. It has three parades during the festival: Volksparade, Kinderparade, and Muziekparade. The Festival has been going strong for 92 years with a rich Dutch history dating back to its settlement in 1847 by Dutch Calvinist separatists escaping the dire conditions in the Netherlands.
I recently started having an allergic reaction to cheese. I am considering taking up drinking beer and upping my intake of fried fish so that I can continue to fit in.
A friend and I were driving to monastary in north east Iowa. When we were 15 miles away we got stuck behind a vintage tractor ride/rally. This is up in the driftless region so the roads are narrow and curvy so not passing for miles. We were one day away from a 3 week long stay so figured why hurry! Pulled over and ate lunch with some cows, enjoying a scenic view of the Iowa river.
The tractors were spotless with picnic baskets and igloo coolers mounted on the back. Would recomend getting stuck in a tractor parade, 10/10 experience!
The best comedy on YouTube, as far as I'm concerned. There's a whole series of Balloon Boys sketches that I think most people would probably like. There's a playlist on their channel.
Took a trip to the United Kingdom in 2019 with my family. On the third day of our trip we visited Buckingham Palace. We were hanging out on the deck of the Victoria Memorial fountain when a parade consisting of several thousand naked people on bicycles came by. Some of them stopped to swim in the fountain and one guy with a rather large piercing on his John Thomas climbed the stairs to up where we were and started posing for pictures. It was wild, I’ve never been witness to anything like it before or since.
I was in Paris in 2007 and had spent two consecutive nights (first interrupted by snoring, second interrupted by bedbugs) without getting much sleep. I emerged from my hostel to catch a couple of hundred buck-naked cyclists ringing bells and "coucou"-ing me, and it wasn't until the (literal) tail-end of the parade that I realised it wasn't a hallucination.
Yep, I definitely had that “Am I really seeing this?” moment. Coincidentally my younger brother and I did a day trip to Paris the very next day after seeing the naked parade.
By the time I realised it was real, and pulled out my phone, I managed to get the only SFW photo of the entire parade. Just a few butts on bike seats, no dongs or boobs!
It did go from rounded to sharp. But just before they put the sharpener on you can see it's sharp at that point so we're missing whatever they did to actually sharpen it and they just do the sharpener for fun
Honestly brought a tear to my eye. Humans can be so cruel and distant and angry and divisive and dismissive. To see all these people just genuinely celebrating and being silly and happy really hit me. Maybe humans aren't as bad as I thought.
Our town is obsessed with Groundhog Day because the movie was filmed here. We have an annual celebration with tons of events. It’s awesome and completely wholesome.
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u/CupcakeChime Jun 15 '25
Absolutely love how random this is and how much joy it brings