| | it's official: fallas is the craziest(not to mention least enviornmentally friendly) holiday ever in the world.
let me explain: every year, the spanish spend thousands of euros, sometimes millions, on each falla(which are the things in my last post), spend months making them out of wood and styrofoam and paint them in beautiful, detailed colour, spend weeks putting together the parts they've already constructed somewhere else, then, in one night, they burn them all to the ground.
the whole evening is absolute insanity. i don't know how many of you(three people who still read this) have ever burned styrofoam(which you shouldn't do, by the way. i'm pretty sure there's a hole in the ozone layer above spain.), but it gets insanely hot. and when i say insanely, i mean INSANELY. we were a good 50 feet away from this one we watched, and we were all running away from it because the heat was doing that thing where it feels like your skin is gonna shrink off your skull a la raiders of the lost ark.
pics!
burning....
getting sprayed by the firemen. fortunately, we had the foresite to stand under a balcony, so we were like the only people not to get wet
the big one! we waited like 2 1/2 hours to watch this baby burn...and it was totally worth it!
running from the crazy heat of the burning.
that's all, i guess. i'm getting ready for "spring break" which i'm not really looking forward to, for aforementioned reasons. but i'm going to barcelona tomorrow for a few days with morgan. so that'll be fun, at least.
cheers! |
| | Posted 3/21/2008 1:11 PM - 50 views - 3 comments
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