Into
the 4th day of the Roses Carnival. Lively music is still blasting out
in the streets through loudspeakers everywhere, and many people, young
and old, are still wearing their fancy costumes, although the main
parade was over. The very extravagant costumes were often painstakingly
put together, as soon as one carnival is over, preparation for the
next is started, during the whole year by some tireless and very
patient wives or mothers; some are commissioned by specialized shops.
These
high-spirited people would wander about in the streets during these
few days still full of all sorts activities, entering bars and
restaurants or even go to work with their costumes on, including staff
in shops, even official offices like the Town Hall, Police Station,
banks, hospitals, Post offices, with permission, or indulgence, or
simply with a blind eye, of their directors, managers or bosses. Many
shops and establishments,, balconies or front doors of private houses
are decorated with colourful and cheerful adornment too, some artistic
others in abandoned hazardous fashion.
I
danced in the middle of the street this morning, a showy Paso-Doble,
with a gigantic polar bear, and later kissed by 7 huge bright green
frogs. One of them planted the kiss on my lips, squeezed me tightly
in an embrace, and made a suggestive wink with his huge, bulging red
eye before he hopped on his way. Could that be the Prince I have been
waiting for all my life I wondered?
The
warm sun, the bubbling gaiety in the atmosphere, the early morning
dance is just the most wonderful way to wake up to. I feel happy, even
if the frog is just a frog.
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