Carnivale! The season has arrived. Carnivale is the time before Fat Tuesday and the beginning of Lent. You do not see children's costumes in the stores for Halloween, it is not really celebrated here, but you do see them now for Carnivale. My friend, Kristin, first alerted us to the celebration in the piazza last year. Unfortunately we missed it then but I remembered it this year when we saw the tell tale confetti on the ground last Monday morning as we were going to school and I made a mental note to check it out. Crowds of parents and children gather in the piazza around noon on Sunday and shower each other and passersby with confetti and silly string.
Little bunny
Little Red Riding Hood
Zorro
Mr. Incredible, Spider Man and the back of Bat Man
Tiger
Smurf
Hello Kitty
Fashionable princess
Stunning hooped costume
Caribiniere (Italian police)
Little blue prince
Guys selling confetti and silly string
A lot of the silly string ends up on trees
And this will happen again next Sunday and all Sundays until Lent! Who do you suppose cleans up after all this?
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