Seattle Patriot

This Thursday marked a great day in one country’s history - Norway. To commemorate it, each year Ballard hosts a grand parade winding through its streets, filled with Norwegians from all over the greater-Seattle area. Despite the fact that Ballard is a small community, and that Norwegians don’t often make themselves overly known (unless you attend a Lutheran church), this is supposedly the third largest Norwegian Independence Day parade in the world (and the largest outside of Norway!). There were sword carrying children, giant-headed people (costumes…), lots of flags, a parade of old cars, including a old C3 Corvette that was the official pace car of the Indy 500 (see photos) and even representatives from my mom’s undergrad, St. Olaf (in Minnesota). In celebration of Ryan’s new job, the Stewarts benevolently treated us to dinner at Snoose Junction following the parade. A truly unique event!