Carnival

Yesterday was the children's carnival parade (postponed by a week due to the bora winds), and today is the international carnival in Rijeka.  We went to both. At today's carnival, 98 groups are participating, so we can still hear carnival going on from our apartment (maybe four hours after it started).  From today....

Here's a 12-second video clip of some Ghostbusters (there were two different Ghostbusters groups) to give you a flavor of today's fun, raucous event:

J.D. and I liked that both the people participating and those watching were of all ages.  We also liked that although carnival had corporate sponsors, the participants and floats appeared not to have them.  There was something authentic-seeming about the event.  We noticed a lot of kids (like 13 year olds) smoking.  Maybe we're out of touch (no comments necessary on that one!), but we don't tend to see kids that age smoking in public in the U.S. anymore.

We're pretty sure that a panel of judges rates the groups of participants.  At dinner, we had a discussion about our favorite groups.  Three out of four of us were noncommittal, but J.D. had a favorite--jellyfish from yesterday's children's carnival:

Laura