Carnaval is pretty much my new favorite holiday. It's like halloween in the United States but better because there is a giant bottelon that attracts people from all over. The costumes were amazing. My friends and I went as a clan of cupids in honor of Valentine's Day. We bought wings, halos and fabric to make toga like outfits. We made bows and arrows out of cardboard and then painted them- super creative! Naturally by the end of the night all the props had broken or disappeared. We noticed there was a very prevalent cross dressing theme. There were dozens of men dresses as nuns, or pregnant nuns, or beer maidens, and many women dressed as men. We asked a few people what was with the trend and they said its because its the one day of the year it is acceptable...It was hilarious. Basically we spent the whole night running around the bottelon taking pictures with people we thought had good costumes. Here are some of the memories:
I also learned important things for the future:
1. Do not drink don simon in public. Don simon is the cheapest wine you can buy (around 50cents a box) and is used as cooking wine. We buy it because it is cheap and we are on a budget, but apparently homeless people have the same thinking... people gave us weird demoralizing looks all night so I will not be drinking that again, in public that is.
2. Dress as something warm and fuzzy. It was freezing out and the people dressed as cows, birds and bears looked by far the most comfortable.
3. Do not eat the week leading up to Carnaval. There is so much good street food and you are bound to try all of it, or at least I did.
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