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La Merce
Posted on September 24, 2013 at 4:35 PM |
One of the holidays for Catalunya is La Merce' (http://merce.bcn.cat/en). Feel free to wiki it. Anyway, we went to go see the festivities of dancers, parades, human towers. Dancing - People dress up in tradition clothes and dance, it’s pretty neat and a lot of the people are younger so it’s nice to see the total age gamut for these festivals, we tried to see more stick dancing that we liked when we visited Sitges, but we went to the wrong place and instead got to see the Sardana dance competition. Ok it was boring, especially when we were expecting sticks. And the kids were tired... it’s basically a group of people stand in a circle holding hands and bouncing on their tippy toes... it was definitely something you needed to understand to appreciate... but I guess there are like hundreds of variations, its age neutral and I can see how it'd be hard to keep on your toes the whole time with your arms up. I also think they have to stay with the music..... after we saw enough dancing to warrant the wait for the dancing, we went to go see the giants parade and some other things I can't find... so this other thing, ends up being guns fired in the plaza... clearly (in looking back) the only folks in the plaza were tourists... I had Abby on my shoulders and Jeff was with Emmett (who wasn't sure how he felt about the giant parade) and then boom... holy guacamole... those things were loud.... everyone with kids was running away from the plaza holding their ears... I am surprised we didn't lose hearing... you could hear the shots from 4-6 blocks away (city blocks that is)... both Emmett and Abby were crying... omg,... happy La Merce.... hahaha.... stupid tourists.... anyway I brought Abby home for a nap and Jeff and Emmett went to explore some more. They wanted to find the human towers. Dude, the Barcelonians are crazy. They make these towers of up to 4-6 people high and throw a 5 year old on top.... apparently (as Jeff told me) they realized how unsafe this may be and started putting helmets on the kids... (see red helmet in picture)
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