Each town in Nicaragua has its own fiestas patronales—a couple days, sometimes weeks, where they celebrated a certain saint. They use this time to party it up cowboy style by having rodeos, horse parades, beer guzzling in the streets, and dancing to very loud music. They also celebrate the saint somewhere in the middle of all that craziness. There are usually a couple processions in there with elaborate displays for the saint.
Well, after our long journey from Granada (it took unusually longer this time for some reason), we arrived in Boaco and got into our cowboy gear to go watch the hipico (horse parade).
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| That's right, I'm a cowgirl now :) |
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| Jorge (friend), Hazzell, Jasser, me, and Frank |
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| Me with some PCVs in Boaco (Jon lives in El Paraiso, Liz in Boaco with me, and Rita in Camoapa) |
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| Sisters :) |
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| Tiny little boy on a horse |
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| This is one of the saint's celebration. It's hard to see because of all the fireworks they were setting off |
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| Frank & I trying to eat healthy and simple :) |
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| We played crib too--this was one of my hands :) |
Next came the feria (fair/festival) in the central park to increase tourism and celebrate Boaco (and the central region of Nicaragua as a whole). It was actually really cool—I enjoyed it and bought a couple souvenirs :)
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| Wine tasting? |
There’s plans to go to the rodeo this weekend, but it’s also Jasser’s birthday today so we’re working out the details…Hope we can give him a good party since he always works so hard to make good parties for others! I decorated the house for him and I’ll post pics on my next blog entry about his birthday.
Basically, it’s party central in Boaco the whole month of July. I’ve only been to class one day this month. Yikes! Then, my birthday is in August—don’t worry I’m not taking off from school just to celebrate my birthday hehehe
Well, party on dudes! ;)
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