Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Carnival

This is a quick post, but there are a couple more coming soon.

I just wanted to show a photo of our last night in Costa Rica. We went to a huge carnival outside of San Jose. The featured event was a "bull fight" that was really more of a comedy show. The central theme was that a bull was let loose in a large arena, with a balloon tied on its back. Then the doors were opened, and the carnival-goers were released into the ring. Whoever was agile (or or drunk) enough to get close to the bull and grab the baloon was declared the winner, assuming that he or she was still alive.

(Un)fortunately, this event was sold out a long time ago, so I couldn't get in to snap some pics. Or get slaughtered by a bull. But we were able to to get into the carnival part, and I did get a picture of the front entrance.