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I know I'm late posting this but i was waiting for the Daily News to run their article about the parade. There are two parades for St. Thomas Carnival: the Children's Parade is always held on the last Friday in April and the Adult's Parade is the following Saturday. Last year I was home for St. Thomas and was in the parade with my youngest sister, mom, step-father, uncle. The troupe we are usually in* is Gypsies - one of the original old-time St. Thomas troupes. *I say usually because I've only been with them once since I am usually never home for Carnival and when I was younger, we weren't allowed to celebrate Carnival and definitely not to be in the parade! My how things have changed lol. My mom has been in the parade for the past several years and usually one of both of my sisters are too. Last year I was home for St. John Festival, which also has a parade...so I was able to tramp w/ Gypsies twice. Here's a pic of Nix and I for St. John. I look like a hot tired, sweaty mess lol.
Here's a pic of my mom and step-dad from this year's parade:
Cute huh!!?
Being in the parade is sooooooo much fun. It's good music, drinking, and dancing down the street in beautiful costumes. I'm hoping I can use someone's costume for the parade in St. John this year.
I also was super excited to find a clip of the troupe from the parade:
Having a good time as always!!
Today's *big chunes* are this year's Road March (the award for best song of Carnival), "Kallalloo" by Spectrum Band, another fav. of mine: "Home for Carnival" by Kevin Lyttle (Barbados) and a bigggg chune from St. Croix festival 2004, "Energy" by Xtaushun:
