Feb 3

We were very lucky to arrive here in time for the celebration of the town's patron saint. San Blas day, is a big annual holiday with lots of dancing processions, music, fireworks etc. The fireworks were the best part. They build a wood and metal tower in the center of the town square, held together with copious amounts of string and supported by ropes tied to palm trees. The tower eventually reached to about eighty feet and had many different sections that once ignited spun crazily around showering anyone standing to close with sparks before finally consuming it self in an unbelievably bright flash. The final section was shaped like a giant butterfly with a sphere on top that eventually blasted off and arced away over the town! Of course before the show could begin some dude had to climb up a corner of the tower and untie the very top piece, he just climbed it like a ladder while the whole thing swayed around. Guess he was confident in his knots. It would defiantly have made any Canadian safety inspector break out in a cold sweat.