This weekend was Bacolod's big festival, Masskara. It happens every year, and involves lots of festival-type things like booths selling cheap crap, food vendors, bands, drinking, and lots of trash. The main events are dance competitions between local groups. All of them have elaborate masks (masskara...) and cool costumes. I went to masskara with 12 other Peace Corps Volunteers, which caused quite a 
spectacle at times. Ian is 7 feet tall. But we had a lot of fun and did lots of stuff. We watched the street dance competition on Saturday. There were a lot of interesting dances and costumes, but it's hot, and every team dances to the same song, so after about 40 minutes, you've seen enough.
We went to a local bar one night, and there was local artist doing free sketches, so anna sat for one. That was really cool. We also went out for pizza, (just 6 of us) and ordered a giant pizza. You can see it is huge. We almost finished it, too.
There were lots of carnival games we tried out. Here's Erin playing some kind of game where you bet on a color. I think she's more excited than the kids. Me, Anna, and Erin all tried the shooting gallery. I was proud when i shot a plastic indian and got a piece of candy until Erin shot nine plastic indians and got nine pieces of candy. That's a stupid game anyway.
We also did videoke and went shopping and ate good food. It was a very fun weekend, and it was great to see my Peace Corps friends that I don't get to see very often.
Great pictures! Looks like fun! Mom
ReplyDeleteWe saw a game where there was a lazy susan with a cover surrounded by a ring of little houses. You put your money on the house you want to bet, then they spin the lazy susan and stop it abruptly, whip the cover off and there's a.........rat! He's all dizzy, so he kind of stumbles around a bit, once he regains his balance he shoots into one of the houses cause he's freaked out by all the noise and lights. That's the winner.
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