Last Saturday was the 2010 DC Caribbean Carnival, which is held every year during the last weekend of June. It launches with a parade with dancers in traditional Carribean carnival costumes. My husband and I rushed into DC early Saturday morning, still 30 minutes late, only to find that this really IS a Caribbean Carnival! On true Island/African time, the parade started 1 or 1 1/2 hours late…but boy, was it worth it! It was a LONG parade! Two hours after the first dancers passed us by, the line was still coming, and even though we were up on a hill, we still couldn’t see the end of the parade! We didn’t stay to the end, and we never did make it to the actual festival in Banneker Recreation Park… (We had a barbecue at a friend’s house to get to!) But the parade was absolutely amazing and wonderful and COLORful! We will definitely try to make it again next year!
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