Buskerfest

Not last weekend, but the one before it was Buskerfest in Dundas!

This meant that the downtown area was full of street performers! Really good ones! There were several shows which were on rotation at different times and locations along King st (the main st).

We went out and had sushi on Friday evening and then caught some of the shows!

We caught the second half of the silly (?something) waiter show, which involved making lemonade with a catapult and juggling chickens.

Then we saw the Quebec Russian Bar trio. For those not in the know, the Russian Bar is a flexible plank. The show part involves two muscular young men holding the bar on their shoulders while an athletic young woman does amazing tricks like BACKFLIPS on the plank!!! (Remember please, that this is in the middle of the street, although they did have a few mats on the ground). Anyway it was very cool!!

We also caught some of the puppet tamer ventriloquism show (which was very funny) before my legs gave out.

On Sunday afternoon we went out again and saw some more of the puppet tamer's show, a bit more of the Russian Bar trio, some of the Dexterity brothers (who weren't as funny), some other guys we didn't catch the name of (but who were very good) and Miss Tallulah and The Ladder of Men who was incredibly funny! (Check out the video on her site : )

We had lots of fun!

And Ben got a puzzle box (it's really tricky to open).

You can see some extra photos here (we forgot to take the camera...)