La Feria

Spain is so cool! Every town has a Feria (fair) for their patron saint and this week happened to be the Feria in Velez (About a 20 minute walk away from my house).  During the day there were parades and lots of drinking in the streets. A lot of stores were closed and people took of work to celebrate the long weekend.  A huge parking lot was converted into this huge fair with carnival rides, food stands, and tents that were converted into huge discotecas every night.  On friday we went to the night fair. Leslie and Eddie rode on the huge bungie cord bubble, but we lost them in the crowds on their way so we just wandered around taking in the sights. There were the basic necessitites of a fair: bumper cards, rides that spin you around until your brains fall out, the whole lot.  As the night went on, more and more people looked really dressed up. You knew where they were heading.  Even though there was blaring music everywhere you turned, if you followed the loudest, you ended up at a line of about 6 tents of the discotecas. There was no cover at all so you could go in and out depending on which song or crowd you liked better. The lights were so bright that it seemed like evening even though it was the middle of the night.  Spain definitely knows how to celebrate.

Anyway, sorry that this post is so short and rushed. I´m sitting here at an internet cafe and probably won´t have internet for another week or so.