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| High School Band in Día de la Revolución parade. |
A dozen or so high school students have been practicing with drums and bugles every day on the basketball court across the street from our house, practicing for the Día de la Revolución parade last Sunday.
This group is much improved over last year's group, but oh my, listening to the discordant clatter and crash for two hours every day increased our need for aspirin, or Tylenol, or whiskey, or anything to obliterate the headache. They're a good bunch of kids, just lacking musical skills at the moment. (But, who am I to complain? I have been tossed out of community choirs and school bands several times for having absolutely no ear for music.)
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| This is a very serious event for these ladies! |
The Day of the Revolution (Día de la Revolución) is celebrated annually in Mexico on November 20th. It is the anniversary of the 1910 start of the popular movement leading to the overthrow of dictator José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori after 34 years of military rule. The revolution ushered in a decade of civil war, which ultimately led to the creation of Mexico’s constitution in 1917.
To be honest, we still get Independence Day, September 16th, 1810, and Day of the Revolution, November 20th, 1910, confused. They are both very important holidays in Mexico, we just have trouble keeping them straight.
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| Take my picture, take my picture!! |
On Sunday, the parade was scheduled to start at eight in the morning instead of the usual nine o'clock, due to the large number of groups that expressed interest in participating. The Parade Marshall was expecting several of the dance troupes from the 6th Annual Caribbean Festival to join the parade.
I meandered over to the designated reviewing stand around eight twenty in the morning, thinking I had at least an hour or more to wait until the parade appeared.
Much to my surprise, the first groups were just arriving at the reviewing stand! The parade had apparently started on time. Amazing!
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| Another part of the high school group. |
While I was shooting a bazillion photos of the various marching contingents with my new camera, I bumped into Janet Davison. Janet and I walked up and down the route clicking lots of photos, but we never did see any of the dance troupes, so I assume that they cancelled at the last minute.
I saw many island friends and their various offspring. I tried to take photos of any of the kids that I recognized. Some of the kids were camera-shy, others hammed it up as soon as they saw me pointing a camera at them. And the high school band, who were driving us nuts all week with their practice sessions, well, they looked and sounded pretty darn good.
Hasta pronto, Lynda and Lawrie
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1 comment:
Your new camera takes great photos! We missed the parade because we had no clue it would start that early. We heard drums and trumpets starting at 7:00 a.m. for the week leading up to the parade. We thought the noise was going to be our permanent early morning wake up call. Now we're back to peace and quiet -- roosters, dogs, and bicycle horns.
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