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| painting the seat delineations to sell later |
Friday everyone gathers in Oruro to celebrate
the Eve of the big Carnaval celebration. Everyone
was preparing for the big parade, and all along the main street they were selling
everything: wigs, hot dogs, cell phone covers, jackets, foam spray, sunglasses, the
equivalent of Cutco knives here, candies, you name it. All along the bleachers were people selling seats for the parade,
so we bought some ($50 per seat, expensive!).
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| It's like a fried empanada and delicious. The drink is sweetened corn, a mix of yellow and purple corn. Like most food there, it came out of that large pot sitting on a flame in the middle of the street. |
After reserving our seats, we went to see bands play on a big stage set up in the central plaza, and everyone was dancing away. Not even the rain could stop us!
On Saturday, the parade began at 7 am with the loud drums and cymbals crashing outside the hotel window. So we rolled over, pulled up the covers, and decided to miss the first few hours. After all, it goes all day into the night at 3 am, then starts up again on Sunday morning…
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