St. Martin
Nov. 5th, 2012 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckYou may know that the official feast day for St. Martin isn't until Sunday, but this hasn't stopped my city from having their big celebration yesterday, a week early. There was a market with not very good arts and crafts goods for sale, food stalls, a stage with live music and most importantly: A guy on a horse in a Roman uniform who led a group of kids and their parents and grandparents and uncles and aunts through the streets.
The kids had lanterns, most of them handmade at school or kindergarten, but there were also the storebought versions around.
While we were waiting in the crowd to start walking through the streets, I spotted this:
Sean lantern and its candyfloss doppelgänger:
Then finally, we started to move and everyone was singing the traditional songs - which was especially fun when you were walking where you were able to hear both the musicians in front of you and the ones walking behind you. They weren't playing the same songs at the same time.
The lanterns turned out to be very difficult to photograph, because the kids are never holding still and then there was the fading light and my inability to do much with the settings of my camera: In short I can't show you much of the impressive work that I saw. Here's a zebra (with added photobucket filter FX):
The kid was in awe. So much that he mostly forgot to sing the songs he had been warbling non-stop at home. Well, he has got plenty of opportunity to do that tomorrow when we have our first kindergarten St. Martin celebrations where the kid will also show off his handmade lantern.
Yesterday we got him a store-bought one, because we didn't want to risk damage to the other one:
He was happy enough carrying this one around.
The kids had lanterns, most of them handmade at school or kindergarten, but there were also the storebought versions around.
While we were waiting in the crowd to start walking through the streets, I spotted this:
Sean lantern and its candyfloss doppelgänger:
Then finally, we started to move and everyone was singing the traditional songs - which was especially fun when you were walking where you were able to hear both the musicians in front of you and the ones walking behind you. They weren't playing the same songs at the same time.
The lanterns turned out to be very difficult to photograph, because the kids are never holding still and then there was the fading light and my inability to do much with the settings of my camera: In short I can't show you much of the impressive work that I saw. Here's a zebra (with added photobucket filter FX):
The kid was in awe. So much that he mostly forgot to sing the songs he had been warbling non-stop at home. Well, he has got plenty of opportunity to do that tomorrow when we have our first kindergarten St. Martin celebrations where the kid will also show off his handmade lantern.
Yesterday we got him a store-bought one, because we didn't want to risk damage to the other one:
He was happy enough carrying this one around.
