Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Trinidad - Carnival




Carnival in Trinidad:
This past weekend, Feb 13 – 16 was carnival in Trinidad. This was our first and we thoroughly enjoyed it, albeit I think I am now hard of hearing, my ears are still ringing. Sunday night was the start of the festivities but we decided to abstain from this, and seeing the roads all asplash with paint and the painted bodies at the beach the next day, we are glad we did. Monday, we went onto Ariepita Avenue where there is lots of action and saw the parade and costumes but was nothing compared to the next day. We got there early in the morning, calling 10 early and stayed a couple of hours. There were lots of parade floats and lots of bodies! There were only about 5 floats when we arrived but they just seemed to keep coming. The boom boxes are huge trailer mounted speakers with independent power generators. You can feel the vibrations thru your body with the noise but it seems that you just go with the flow and jive like everyone else. I can still hear the music and the beat, what a blast!

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