Carnival Started

Last Saturday night was suppose to be just a small traditional Parade of Torches to announce that the Carnival Season just begun. The official Carnival Season starts on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month and ends the day before Ash wednesday. And yes, Carnivale is a religious event.

The first Parade called the 'Fakkel Optocht' was suppose to be around 200-350 participants with their torches and dancing in the streets from one starting point to the end some 3-5 miles away.

However, due to a heavy and stressfull year we just had, I guess many just wanted to be relief of that stress and made the parade grew from a few hundred participants to over 4.000, making this the biggest ever in the 52 years of official carnival season.

It was a great start to e fabulous New Year. Well deserved.