Invitation!

[louhirata]

It's Carnival Holidays until Wendnesday!

So let's enjoy the fun the parades the balls the streets of Carnival with our best fantasies and allegories, watching the parades at night at Rio with the shining lantejoulas and strass, while samba music is on and the stories of popular carnival schools gives the most beatiful show on the Marques de Sapucai!!!!

Tonight starts the Special Group parades at Rio, and dressed as a Queen of the Sea, I follow the crow... Just take a look!!!


Come to the most fun Carnival of the World!!!!

[louhirata]

PT friends, here are some more pics of the Carnival at Rio. Those are samba schools which presented their shows at Marquês do Sapucaí - the samba parade street.

It says the name of the Samba School. The first is how life started, for example.

We spent all night watching the parade, because it ends at 7am the next day, sleep a while, and them prepare for the night, to go samba on foot on our blocks - more than 100 people together - along the streets following the musicians with drums, cuica, pandeiro, and all the typical instuments...

Come enjoy Carnival with serpentines, lantejoulas, strass, and purpurine... To make the night shine into the night to the sound of the battery - the set of musicians...

Carnival Times Once More!!!!

[G535]

That looks fantastic, I wish we had something like that here.

[louhirata]

I think there are carnival parties in the USA and Europe like Brazilian style promoted by Brazilians and friends who live in this countries. Otherwhise, they would have to go withouth our biggest parties... Maybe they don't have the samba school show parade, but for sure they have the parties on the streets with the battery - how we call the set of musicians who play the instruments and the drums.

Brazilians don't live without Carnival!

Lou

[louhirata]

Here are some more photos of the Carnival of Brazil shows along the most famous cities for carnival in the country.

One shows how big the allegoric cars - how we call the cars that bring to the avenue plot of the samba plot, the story of the plot of a samba. In general it tells a story and the samba schools presents about 6-8 allegoric cars in their presentation.

Other show the street carnival of Recife a northen northeast beach city that is very famous for its the street carnival. The most famous party is the Midnight Galo - the male chicken, who brought to the avenue 1,6 million people behind it!

I couldn't get no photo of the eletric trio - how we call the big cars who carry a small band on top of vey high traillers with a singer too, singing to the crowd who follows it along the streets of Salvador, Bahia, also a south northeast beach city, the most famous place for eletric trio street carnival. But I got a singer, dressed as Carmen Miranda, a famous Brazilians actress of the past, that is a famous singer here, Daniela Mercury, who is the best singer of eletric trios makes every dance and sing behind the eletric trios on the streets of Salvador.

Enjoy the photos!

While there is Carnival Street Parties along Brazil yet!!!!

[louhirata]

The samba schools on the Carnival Show Parade presents each about 5.000 people, along the parade. Those are people who safe money all year around to buy they fantasy for the parade and also help the samba school during the week-end events to promote samba and bring funds to the school for the carnival parade.

Each samba schol receive a fund also from the government to do the show and from private promotors.

The wining samba school of the Carnival Show Parade competion receives a big prize in money each year from the promoters of the event.

This year the winner of the Rio carnival was Vila Isabel.

The winner of São Paulo was Imperatriz.

The winner of Porto Alegre was Restinga.

All big poor neighboors of these cities.

Also about the photo with the big dolls it is from Olinda, a beach town in northeat state of Maranhao, wich is very known for marvelous beach and its street carnival.

So, tv show tourist: 680.000 tourists come to Rio de Janeiro for Carnival. The majority is still in Rio, enjoying the beach, which might include having cocktails by the beach under sun umbrellas and big chairs!!!!

All of them, Americans, Germans, Canadians, Italians... promised to come back next Carnival!!!!

Because next year there would be another Carnival in Brazil!

[louhirata]

The Found Cat Hotel is cover of Pet Talk today (the 1st of April 2006) with the beautiful Tuxedo Joseph, or JJ3, for the friends.

Happy Congratulations!

He is very cute!!

Lou