Greek Dinner

No, we didn't make it to the Greek Festival this weekend, unfortunately, but managed to celebrate Greece anyway, with some of our homeschool friends. We had an amazing Greek feast, and some of the kids dressed up as their favorite Greek Gods (and these kids really know their Greek mythology, so these are seriously informed choices) and we shared tidbits we'd learned about Greece in the past month or so. The menu wound up being pita bread, hummus, kalmata olives, spanakopita, lamb pastitsio, a lima bean dish whose Greek name escapes me, beet and feta salad, Horiatikia salad (cukes, feta, sweet peppers, etc.), baklava, koulourakia (like sugar cookies), and Greek coffee.  Unfortunately I didn't get pictures until after much of the food was gone, but here are some of the remains:

The kids played scatter and some acting/pretend games and impressed me tremendously with how well this big group of 10 kids ranging in age from 5 to 13 could play together in the tiny space of our upstairs. There was plenty of thumping, exuberant shouting, and swords keeping the enemies on the stairs at bay, but an amazing lack of voices raised in anger or frustration.