We met some friends and headed to the Volcan Flower Festival in September. It was a lot of fun. It only poured on us for a little while when we were in the festival. The parade started some two hours later than it was supposed to and was slow slow slow!! We had a great time though!
There were a lot of structures that were made entirely of flowers, like this horse.
I got to be a flower woman for a few minutes. Isn't it lovely?
H did a short zipline they had set up and he had a blast!
D tried it out too. It was on his list of things he wanted to do for his birthday, so it worked out perfectly that he could try it out at the festival.
Look ma, no hands!
The parade was loud. The bands were super loud but they did a good job.
The floats were all really nicely done. Think Rose Parade on a tiny scale.
Traditional dancers were also part of the parade. So this was one of the reasons it took so long. They had to perform a dance or two in front of the grand stand and everyone else had to wait.
This was a cool John Deere float. The guy standing there was turning it himself.
I love the traditional dresses these dancers were wearing. And the pins and beads in their hair.
Ben and I got to be Ngobe. Everyone thought his gorilla length arms really went with this cut out. Ha! And M sticking his head out from behind me fits in perfectly!
These are my fellow Panama Mamas! Lots of sweet ladies!
Here is most of our crew. Can you tell why we appeared to be more of a parade walking down the street than the actual parade? It was fun - so glad we have these kind of experiences while living here!
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