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Happy St Urho's Day!

It's the day St Urho drove the grasshoppers from Finland and saved the grapes!



Dawn

DeeEss57 wrote:Happy St Urho's Day!

It's the day St Urho drove the grasshoppers from Finland and saved the grapes!



Dawn

I was wonderin what happened to good ol Urho!!

DeeEss57 wrote:Happy St Urho's Day!

It's the day St Urho drove the grasshoppers from Finland and saved the grapes!



Dawn

Went to the St. Urho festival this weekend with the kids. The festival, or at least the only one I know of happens in Menahga MN, a small town full of Finlanders.

VikingMachine wrote: Went to the St. Urho festival this weekend with the kids. The festival, or at least the only one I know of happens in Menahga MN, a small town full of Finlanders.

They have one in Finland, Minnesota, too. With a parade even. And, apparently, St Urho's was invented in Finland, Minnesota.

Dawn

DeeEss57 wrote: They have one in Finland, Minnesota, too. With a parade even. And, apparently, St Urho's was invented in Finland, Minnesota.

Dawn

Yep, parade here too.

My wife is a Finlander, her mother and grandparents are 100% Finlander. Apparently they guy saved Finland from the locust or something like that. I am Swedish....a true Viking!

VikingMachine wrote: Apparently they guy saved Finland from the locust or something like that. I am Swedish....a true Viking!

See my original post. It was grasshoppers. To save the grapes. Which, of course, Finland doesn't have.



Dawn

Well, I was too busy eating a lot of nice Finnish food to use the internet on Sunday, so I missed this thread.

St. Urho's Day is a day for purple and green, but I will also wear baby blue and white for the flag of Finland.

Such fun!