Dickens Festival

The Dicken's Festival is held each year for one weekend in December. Old Wal Street and adjacent streets are decorated and staffed with 300 plus actors. This is one of the book stores.

One of the younger members of the cast.

There was a group of live statues depicting the birth of the Savior. They moved to different positions as the story was told by a narrator accompanied by a violinist.

We tried to get a good picture with the cast. Some statues broke out of pose to greet people.

Inside the church was a choir singing Christams Carols.

I am not sure which Dickens character this is. He was giving the women a hard time.

This is one of the ghosts of Christmas.



These children were irrisitable. I had to get a picture.



She is selling Mistletoe. We see it growing in the tops of trees. The berries are white and are used in Europe to treat circulatory and respiration problems.  

This is the quilt shop. Sarah would love it.



She is doing laundry. The whole time we were there she had kids washing clothes by hand. The water must have been very cold. The air temperature was -2 Celsius when we arrived.





Bikers



Scrooge is giving Elder Anderson a hard time.

Scrooge was our favorite. He was speaking in Nederlands but when he heard us speaking English he switched to a perfect English accent. Elder Bush asked him if he knew George W. He said "thank goodness he is not born yet".
As we left we wished him and merry Christmas and he smiled and said "Bah humbug".

This is where the Festival begins. Elder Bush is next to me. He would give Neal and Ed Boyle hard time on the tennis court. We arrived early so there was no wait to enter. When we left in the afternoon there was a several hour wait. There was no entry fee - the city does the festival with voluteers.