Carnaval Is Here

On Thursday evening they had the parade of bad humor and then later burned bad humor at the Plaza de Tres Presidentes, this makes for only happiness during the carnaval. Every year an effigy is made of a person that the people believe didn't live up to what was expected of him. Quite often it is a politican. This year the effigy was to represent Julio Preciado, a singer, for the errors made in his interpretation of the National Anthem when he sang it at the Serie del Caribe in Mexicali, Baja California. The effigy is made with fireworks, firecrackers incorporated into him, so as he burns the firecrackers go off, making for quite a spectacle.
Photo from EntreTodos.

Saturday was the first day of 4 days of parades and festivities, the theme of this years carnival is 5 Elements: wind, earth, fire,water, and love. We went down to watch, as usual it was late starting and by the time it arrived at where we were it was almost 6 PM and starting to get dark. It lasted for an hour and there were a ton of people watching. The queens from Guaymas' sister cities were also in the parade. The sister cities are: Santa Rosalia- Baja California, Mesa- Arizona and El Segundo- California.

My camera doesn't take good pictures that late in the day, so most of the photos are not that great.

This dragon was apparently 8 meters long and he was quite impressive. I believe he carried the queen of the floral games.