Carnaval II

CARNAVAL! Last night we walked down the beach to this HUGE festival with neon mask-shaped lights in the center of the streets, booming live Spanish music, and thousands of people dressed up in these costumes, old and young dancing everywhere in the streets! There were kids as young as 5, and as old as 80 at 3 or 4 am STILL dancing! I have never seen such detailed costumes, they HAVE to rent them or something, because the ones for Halloween in the USA SUCK compared to these professional costumes! WOW! These girls walk around all glittery pushing these huge plastic dresses that they drag around three times my size with peacock feathers and fruit spilling everywhere. They are like live Barbie Dolls complete with a background that they haul with them. There is constant live music, every kind of Spanish music, Salsa, Ola, Samba, Merengue, Cumbia EVERYTHING, and down another huge Plaza is Reggae and down another huge Plaza is hip hop/spanish! So I put on my huge feather mask (bright purple with a peacock feather), my neon purple/pink peluca (wig) with feathers, and my Hawaiian skirt thing and joined the throng (I just threw it together, I didn't know what I was trying to be.) In the reggae section, there were so many people, I literally thought that I was going to be crushed. I couldn´t MOVE, and if someone moved their elbow, something of mine would have to move to compensate for it. It was the first time I´ve been scared that if I fell, I would get trampled! Good thing there are policemen everywhere. There are also people laying out on the streets just making out, or just dancing and cheering at the top of their lungs at 5 in the morning!! We got up at NOON the next day to go tan at the ocean, and there were STILL people walking around in the same costumes they were in the night before partying!!!! THAT is stamina! It´s not EVEN carnaval yet, but Tenerife parties straight for 15 DAYS BEFORE CARNAVAL! Carnaval is on Tuesday tomorrow! Hasta luego!