Parades, Music, Noise the HIspanic way!
WE’ve come here for the wine festival and Friday night it gets under way big time. Like Stampede parade, it’s a mile long lineup of floats from all over this region. Each region has chosen a wine queen and one will be chosen queen of queens tonight at the big arena in the huge town park.
Everyone from miles around has gathered for the event. Restaurants line the route and are packed. Families are out in huge umbers. Everyone is in full festival mode. And it starts at 10pm!!
Like Marni’s Gras parade, they throw all sorts of stuff from the floats. Not just photos of the queens (vote for me!!) pencils and books for the kids, small baubles, candy, but bunches of grapes, peaches, whole melons (yes, melons!) bottles/bags of wine!! (They are handed off...) Pretty dangerous some of the missiles.
Like Stampede heritage, old families come dressed in period costume in their horse drawn wagons, and many many groups of gauchos on their beautiful and ornately decorated steeds clop down the road behind their local queen float. Sometimes accompanied by their own cheering group too.
By 11:30 it is time for one of their delicious ice creams and home to bed for me. But the revelry continues on all night apparently.
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