¡Carnival!

This past weekend was carnival! I spent it with a theatre group in my neighbourhood, Barranco. Carnival hasn't been celebrated that much over the past few years and the people of Barranco were hoping to bring it back in style this year.

So in the spirit of celebration a few friends and I painted ourselves blue and became cyclops' for the day. The idea was that we were supposed to 'fight' with a group of purple people but I didn't really understand what that was about. We spent most of the day marching through Barranco getting water and paint thrown at us and dancing to the bands that accompanied us. In fact I didn't really stop dancing for the whole parade. It was so much fun... but removing the paint was tricky!