I just got home from Carnival. Tonight was the closing ceremony, and it was amazing! It’s also the first and last carnival activity I’ve taken part in, since I’ve been too cheap to fork out the money for the weekend parades. Fortunately the closing was free.
It started with everyone gathering on the beach in eager anticipation of the burning of the carnival king. At this point, they turn off the Macarena or whatever other crazy song was blasting on the beach and start playing something very dramatic to set the mood. The king gets put on some kind of stand, set on fire, and is tugged along behind a boat while everyone watches from the beach.
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| Tough to get a clear picture, but that's the king burning on the water. |
After they killed the king, our attention was directed to the chateau on the hill. There was a short smoke and light show, which served as an intermission to prep the fireworks.
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| Smoke and light show |
The firework show was the most amazing I’ve ever seen. They were launched from several boats out on the water, so they were really spread out and seemed to take up the entire sky. They were perfectly choreographed to music ranging from “Pretty Woman” to Edith Piaf, to Madonna, to another of those dramatic good versus evil church choir sounding songs (you know, the kind they put in Disney movies during the fight with the bad guy). Incredible.
what's the story behind the burning of the king??
ReplyDeleteGood question- no idea. Need to look it up! Also, I miss you and Sid too!!!! Thanks so much for the letter, I can't stop chuckling about it :)
ReplyDeletereally spectacular fireworks! puts our 4th of july celebrations to shame!
ReplyDeleteI know- I wish you had been here....really amazing! The music made it so much better, too!
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