Anchorage Market & Festival

Saturday, July 29, 2017

I enjoy Farmer's Markets, so I convinced Tic to go into Anchorage to their Market & Festival. It happens every Saturday and Sunday Mid-May through Mid-September,     10 AM to 6 PM.

We arrived about 9:35 am so we could get a close parking place. We succeeded and were able to park just across the street from the market.

 There were a few booths with vegetables. Look at the size of both squashes. They say these are small...there are still many more growing days.

 There are many craft booths of all kinds...shells, rocks, jewelry etc

Above and below is a large fruit booth. I did buy a special melon.  They were giving samples as seen below. It was delicious so I had to have one.

This booth had several kinds of T-shirts and this is one of 3 ragging on Texas. 

It is true Alaska is bigger than Texas, but the size comparisons on this shirt are not accurate.  Being a native Texan, I thought it was funny.

 Above and below are a couple of wood carvings on display.

We got a kick from this moose with elk antlers. Cute!

 The Alaska Railroad Corporation was behind the market. Below this little engine was out front of the building.

We saw this Russian Food booth and had to try a spicy beef piroshki. We shared it. It was rice and ground beef with spicy flavoring in a pastry. All that did was make us hungry.

So we after we left the Anchorage Market and Festival, we headed to an Italian Restaurant named Evangelos near our current home site in Palmer, AK.

Evangelos was much fancier than we expected. However, the prices were reasonable considering we are in Alaska.

Tic ordered spaghetti with meat sauce and Italian sausage. I ordered an individual size pizza. Both were delicious.

We headed home. We move tomorrow and I want to get laundry done today. Besides it is starting to rain again.  We have enjoyed our relaxing stay here in Palmer, AK.