Wax Your Runners! Laskiainen!
By TimK on Jan 31, 2010 in Uncategorized
Laskiainen Finnish Sliding Festival
Feb. 6 & 7 (Sat.Sun.) at the Loon Lake Community Center in Palo MN
Celebrating the ethnic heritage of customs, crafts, music, sports,
marketplace, foods and of course sliding! Free and super family-friendly. Featuring the infamous vipukelkka or whipsled! An excellent opportunity to generate your own exclamation points!
http://www.ironrange.org
816 Highway 100 Palo
Aurora, MN 55705
Laskiainen
We’ve been trying to get up to Palo for this for the past four years. Hopefully, we’ll hit #76.
Laskiainen did not start off as a sliding holiday but the decent into fasting 40 days before Easter. A Christian church holiday for the beginning of Jesus’ travel to Jerusalem and as a topic in the church is God’s sacrificial love.
February 14 is Laskiais Sunday and 16th is the actual church day.