Random Happenstances Around Granada

Lots of silly little things happen around Granada.  Every day I see something silly, a little off, a little abnormal, but it always brings a smile to my face and reminds me that I'm in another country experiencing something new and exciting.

This is not him, but it's the general idea :)

For example...about last week on Friday I was walking down to the AIFS office to meet with my friends to plan our trip to ITALY for Spring Break.  It's about noon, I'm strolling down the street just listening to my iPod and being happy that it's a nice day outside and I have no classes.  Then all of a sudden I hear all this clatter, like a little kid is in the kitchen playing with all the pots and pans and thinks he's making music.  I look around and everyone is staring and looking at this person.  What do I see...I see a Bert, from Mary Poppins.  I kid you not this guy looked straight out a film.  He had the drums attached to his back, stomping his feet, the cymbol and the harmonica attached to a pole in front of his mouth.  Picture this guy ^.  Yup, I saw that walking down the streets.  Boy was it comical and it pretty much mad my day. :)

Also, this weekend was Carnaval.  For those of you who don't know, it's basically a huge weekend for people to get dressed up, get drunk and be altogether silly.  People wear all sorts of silly costumes, and some cities have huge parties.  Some kids went to Caidez to celebrate Caranval where they have a huge party, with music and the city is all lit up and decorated.  Well, you don't just have to be in Caidez to celelbrate Carnaval, you celebrate it all over Spain.  Julia was telling me about her nieta dressing up as a mermaid for school, everyone celebrates.  So I guess it shouldn't have surprised me to see a cute little girl walking down the street in a Snow White costume (adorable!)

But it did surprise me a little bit to see some guy dressed up as the saddest Winnie the Pooh ever!!! His costume looked like he made it in his basement, he probably did, and he wasn't fat at all.  He was holding balloons and only had costume feet, not costume hands.  He also looked pathetic, and was hardly taking pictures with children.  One word: sketch.
  But then he did the unthinkable.....he took off his head.  Now, as a lover of Pooh I was appalled.  As a lover of all things Disney...I had no words....I guess not everyone thinks of the magic of costumes like Disney does.

And to top off my bizzare week, on my way home from seeing this pathetic Pooh I saw a bunch of people dressed in older garb running from the plaza with a bullhorn and shouting something.  I have no idea what they were shouting but it was obviously something that had to do with Carnaval.  It was very entertaining but I wish I had caught what they were saying.  I also did see a few people out last night dressed up, but not too many.  I don't think I was out late enough to see that sort of thing.  Either was it was very entertaining.  I loved it.

Now why don't we have some fun holiday like that...oh wait...it's called Halloween. hahah.  Oh well, Carnaval was still pretty fun to see.