September 15th is Independence Day for Costa Rica. Lora's school was invited by one of the local public schools to join them in their festivities early that morning. It started at the school with the students and staff singing many patriotic songs of Costa Rica and then ended with a parade down the main street of Huacas. Despite the rain, the children were all very excited and proud to be in the parade. There was only one damper when an obvious drunk driver came speeding right through the rope lines being held at the front of the parade, and he headed straight for the oncoming parade participants! Everyone panicked and scattered out of the way as fast as they could and thank heavens no one was hurt! Very scary for a few minutes there.
Lane took these photos and has several more posted on his FB if you want to see them. This was a fun thing for our family to really see some true Costa Rican culture and tradition.
1 comment:
how cute... glad the drunk driver didn't cause any damage! I love the last picture of the little boy with the flag... haha.
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