Skry and I went to an Irish bar called the Craic for an early dinner, and commandeered a window seat to watch out for the start of the parade. This was my view, which looked very cool in real life with the church all floodlit and just visible through the trees:
The parade got going with some dancers and a white witch / snow queen type person on stilts.
They were quickly followed by dozens and dozens people carrying all sorts of paper lanterns. It really did look lovely, especially as the authorities and local businesses had got together to switch out most of the electric lights in the area so we could appreciate the candles.
The parade was followed by entertainment from the bandstand across the way, although we couldn't see what was going on and were too lazy to walk over, and then fireworks. And amazingly the weather was just perfect, crisp and cold but not even a hint of rain despite the poor forecast beforehand.
The whole event gets a big thumbs-up from me. Everyone seemed to be having a great time, the kids were loving it, and it was just good clean fun for all the family. Up with this sort of thing.
2 comments:
That festival was great. I wish belfast had something like that, although a bit of rain would have stuffed that up, what with the lanterns being made out of paper and all that!
Jen, thanks for putting your local time on your blog. Teeth had some issues computing that...
Still all newfangled with Skype!
Great to see you :-)
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