We drove up to Visalia with our friends Nancy and Lea to attend a button collectors convention. Visalia is close to Kingsburg, a town settled by Swedes. We were lucky that the annual Swedish festival was taking place, and Pat spent all day Saturday enjoying the festival.
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Sunset in the San Jauquin Valley.
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Sign in Kingsburg. Pat's grandmother came from the
Swedish province
of Halland.
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cool cars
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Kingsburg water tower
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Parade pictures
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Many 50th anniversary couples in vintage cars.
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Gold PT Cruiser.
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Basset hounds on parade
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There were a whole bunch of antique tractors.
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Kingsburg girl's softball league.
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Nykelharpa -- Pat had never seen or heard of this before.
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Raising of the Maypole
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Dancing around the Maypole
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Is this really central California?
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Pamela Pearson Leal playing the accordion with her
grandchildren.
Pamela does woodcarving and Pat bought one of her
carvings.
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Can't imagine riding one of these.
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Pamela holding one of her carvings.
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Our friend Lea with Pamela and carving.
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They even had a petting zoo for the kids.
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Nancy and Lea in Visalia.
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Sandy and Pat at the same place.
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This is south of Bakersfield -- you can see where the
California aqueduct
is piped over the mountains.
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This area going through the mountains is called the
grapevine.
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This roller coaster looks really scary! It goes
straight down.
We are too old for roller coasters.
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We saw this Kissmobile on the freeway near Pasadena.
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We stopped at Toms Farms for produce.
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This is one of Pat's favorite bridges on highway 15.
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This is the Pamela Leal carving Pat bought.
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