Sunday January 6, 2013

Sunday January 6/13  update #334

I started the day by working on photos again, so many to get through yet….

Bella was having a few gals over to play bridge so Mark Anderson and I worked on a few more pictures until we slipped out to capture the Parade Of The Innocent Children on Huayna Capac.  The parade apparently commemorates the day King Herod had all the male babies in Judea killed.  It seems every type of costume is allowed, and there were some great ones.  Our favourites were the ones all painted blue depicting the Avatar characters.  They had bows and arrows and even had the hissing action perfected.

The parade was supposed to start at 4pm, but on Ecuador time.  We arrived about 5pm and it hadn’t started yet.  The crowd of about 30,000 surged onto the street only allowing one lane for the parade so motorcycle cops would move them back to allow for 2 lanes but the crowd would just surge back as soon as they went by.

We found a spot atop a planter but would continuously get Ecuadorians jump up and stand in front of us, ruining whatever little angle we had to shoot.  Oh well, the parade was going at a snail’s pace so we got many great shots of folks passing behind us.   Most regular Ecuadorians are hams at heart and love to have their photos taken.

The girls met us at the parade and we gave up shortly after 6pm as it started to get dark.   We fought our way to Big Kabudas for our burger fix and were greeted by Jesus in costume.   He says it has been crazy there for the last 3 days and he has to close up when he runs out of supplies.  He was going through 500 buns per day! 

That was today’s excitement.   Hugs to all.   Please see all photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/