So I just wanted to tell you a little about my week away from the computer. As you probably have read my computer had been bugging me and my dad installed win7 on it and uninstalled it again and I think about three times before he decided to return to good old Vista. But I think since Thursday evening everything is back up and running but there was too much excitement going on to spend the day indoors.
In my town we had a celebration in honour of patron saint of our town, Hogueras , which is literally translated into stake. It lasted about a whole week and well no sleep at all. They had put up one of the stands underneath my bedroom window and on the worst day they started partying and barbecuing at noon and ended the next morning at seven, so yeah we’re pretty exhausted even though we didn’t go to all of the festivities and those stands.
The party really started on Thursday when they put up the statues “Fallas”. There were some pretty nice stuff put up. They are really artist who put it all together.
It think my favourite one from the adults, was the one down the street, which also won first price.
And for the kids, the one I like best was this one. It is from the same group as the one above and it got the second price.
For more images of all the Fallas, go here for the Adult Fallas and here for the Kids Fallas.
Starting from Friday morning, there was the wake up service at eight every day until Sunday, which was very interesting seeing as the stands went on till like five in the morning, three hours later they already come to wake you up. The wake up service was a brass band who went through all the streets to week everyone up.
In the evening there was the parade, in which all the Misses participated. Every year they choose a Miss to represent the town in these Hogueras here in town and in the towns around this one. There are two Misses elected, one adult and one child. Next to that there are all the other ones who participated in the run for the Miss crown, that also go in this parade as well as the two runner-ups. But the cutest, are of course the kids in the special dresses.
On Saturday there was the floral tribute to the patron saint, Santa Carmen.
So on Sunday, this happened. This is what they call “La Crema de las Hogueras” which was also the end of the festivities.
And this went all till all the Fallas were gone…
So that’s a bit in a nutshell what my week has been like. Like I said I’m still exhausted. It’s like I haven’t slept for over a year, so hopefully now that all the stands are being cleaned up hopefully I’ll get some night rest now.
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