On Sunday afternoon, we went tot he carnival parade at Massena. We got the cheap tickets, standing but got a great place. The parade comes down the road and turns in the square. We were standing in the square so the floats went around us. I was expecting barriers but there weren't any. You mingled with the floats and parade. It was amazing.
If you dressed up, you got in free. And there some great costumes.
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| Buzz Lightyear, cleaning up! |
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| These guys really made a effort (and got me with silly string later!) |
It was the place to be. There were celebrates everywhere! :-)
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| The Royal Family showed up. |
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| Will and Kate |
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| Even the Pope... |
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| ...and Barrack put in an appearance |
The floats were amazing! There were 20 in total, all on the theme of sport, in honour of the 2012 Olympics.
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| Roi du Sport, king of sport. |
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| Reine Du sport, queen of sport |
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| I'll leave you to make you minds up about this one... |
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| Shot silly string and streamers at the crowd. |
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| I have no idea what she is doing... |
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| Wacky races car. |
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| On the doping scandals in sport. |
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| Huge monkeys before the India float |
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| Scared lots of kids. Its eyes flashed! |
And the costumes were amazing. In between the floats were dancers, musicians, and entertainers.
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| White dragon |
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| In front of big bird cousin. |
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| Dancing Daffodils |
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| Unfortunately the head was cut off the photo! |
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| These ladies were on the last float... |
After the carnival, we headed to a bakery for something to eat and drink, and a much needed sit down. It was a great day and I am looking forward to the other parades on Wednesday.
(I'll put more photos up on Facebook as I took hundreds!)
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