Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Midevil Festival in Santo Domingo de la Calzada



A group of us went to a midevil festival, which completely blew my mind. I mean look at these guys, they are awesome, and they let me hold thier flag. I'm not sure where the third muskateer is, but I bet he is around there somewhere.



This is the afore mentioned group: Alexis, Bronwyn, Marina, Eunice, Hanna, Nadja, and me. We are waiting for the bus. Pure excitement I tell you.

This was the midevil bride and here wedding. I didn't get very good shots of the ceremony due to the hoards of people, but it was pretty cool, with gypsie dancers, jesters, monks and even a leper.

This is the midevil stable boy that is actually a very pretty midevil stable girl in a sweet dress.



And a midevil donkey pulling an even more mideviler cart. I don't know where the midevil mule skinner escaped to while I took this photo, but he was dressed up pretty cool as well.




If anyone wants to get me a Christmas present, I would like a life size chess board and a trio that place a little diddy everytime one of the players is captured-which is what is going on in this video.





This is quite possibly one of the coolest things I have ever seen...ever. It is called La Danza del Torre (Tower Dance). Pretty much these two thrill seekers decided to dangle down the side of the cathedral tower and do some dancing. The dance probably lasted 15 minutes or so, and kept getting more and more awesome. I would guess these people were close to 100 feet off the ground at this time. Amazing.