Do Wooden Shoes Keep Your Feet Warm!

On a cool brisk windy Saturday morning the day before Mothers Day at the 75th Annual Tulip Time Festival in Pella, we joined more than twenty-eight hundred Dutch Dancers who formed three double dance lines around the Town Square. These Dutch Dancers “splintered” the old Guinness World Book of Records mark of 476 that had been held by a little Dutch Town in the Netherlands.

Hats off to the organizers of this event for a terrific job of making it happen. The cool weather of the morning did not cool any hearts of the hearty Dutch Dancers who had traveled from all over the country to help Pella “splinter” the old record.

From the start of the pre-registration process, signing for the official registration packet, pinning your official number on the front of each dancer, and then dancing, every part of the process was “as smooth as the top of a Wooden Shoe”! Weeks ahead we were told the dancers would line up to dance at 10am (we did), that after lining up we would practice the dance all together, (we did), and at 10:30am we would dance to break the old record, (we did). Even the last step of tearing the bottom portion of your number off after the dance for the Official Guiness Record Book went right on “step”.




Thank You, Pella! Our eight wooden shoe clad Dutch Dancers from the Indianola Activity Center had a “vundurfull” morning of Dutch hospitality, dancing, friendship, and pastries. Oh yes! Wooden Shoes do keep your feet warm and comfortable if you wear a good pair of Iowa wool socks!