It'S CaRnAvAL TiMe!

I know it has been a few days since our last post, but I PROMISE the next two blogs will make up for our lost days. As I stated in our last post, Carnaval was this past weekend in San Pedro. We did not make it downtown until Tuesday night, which is also Fat Tuesday. And although the festivities were dying down, we sure made it a fun night. The painting was still in full force and we have been wanting to experience it to the fullest.

Rob and I were determined to get painted and made sure we wore old clothes just in case someone decided to not use water-based paints. I tried to take pictures throughout the night so you can see our progression of painting.......

So let me begin at the beginning. This is Lynn and Carl, our newly found friends, walking ahead of us on the beach....headed into town.

This is one of the biggest signs I saw telling us we were near the painting....very near the painting.

Little girl climbing the manatee at the park....both covered in paint.

And then Rob found his first group that was willing to share their paint.

This is the crowd that was behind........

I found some red paint...and some peach colored underneath-if you can see it.

Oh Rob......

We then found some street dancers getting ready to make their way to the square.

This is front street...



Check out the new clock tower at the square. They made sure it wasn't going to get painted.

Many of the businesses downtown cover their storefronts to save them from the paint. This is Jaguar's, one of the nightclubs.



And Rob found some local kids that had eggs and were ready to fire them any moment. He helped out and let the kids put them in his hair. Seemed fun at the moment...but getting them out 3 hours later was not so fun.

We seemed to find more and more paint...different colors and different people.

Remember this picture......and how much (or less) paint we have.

Cool people from Wisconsin that we met while getting a street burrito.



And here comes the troublemakers...that's paint going on Rob's head.





The guy on the left is the one that found me.....

We look like Smurfs...

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the picture.

I am guessing we know this guy, but couldn't tell it this night.

So this was our first experience with Carnaval. It was such a great experience, we cannot wait until next year. And if you are wondering if we found some non-water based paint....yes we did. I washed the clothes the next day and almost NONE of it came out. Looks like we will be saving these clothes for next year's celebration of Carnaval. So if you are thinking of visiting San Pedro and want to get painted...think about coming during Carnaval.