Wife Carrying Competition -- Finn Grand Fest 2010 -- The Soo discovers its Inner Sisu

Sisu. guts, determination, persistance, strength and stubborness.
It is a word that is indescribable, but Finns exhibit this Sisu in their hearts and lives.

This weekend, the Finn Grand Fest 2010 was held in Sault Ste. Marie. The festival is an international celebration of Finnish culture, as it combines Finnlanders, partial Finns and Finns in spirit together from Canada, USA and Finland. Events are held across the city as the Soo (Sault Ste. Marie) celebrates the strong Finnish culture in Northern Ontario and Michigan's upper peninsula. Being an international event, it will be held in San Diego, California next year.

Along with a market, concerts, and a lot of swimming and saunas, one of the most popular events, is the Wife Carrying Contest. This traditionally involves carrying the wife or the girlfriend through a series of obstacles. The traditional method of holding the wife, upside and on the back is generally the standard way of carrying her across water and hay bales. One of the other events, involved a wheel barrow race, where the husbands carried the wives in a wheelbarrow and then the wives carried the husbands in wheelbarrows. The winner of the wife carrying contest won some money from the sponsor, Kone Cranes, and the winner of the wheelbarrow race, won the wheelbarrow from Soo Mill.

Links:




Finn Grand Fest 2010
http://www.finngrandfest2010.com/
KoneCranes
http://en.konecranes.ca/
Soo Mill
http://www.soomill.com

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