Thursday, February 18, 2010

Carnaval

CARNAVAl: Feast of the flesh.

For those of you that doesn't know what Carnaval means.
Carnaval is a five day celebration, where people party the whole time.
It usually started on a Friday before Ash Wednesday, and it doesn't stop until Fat Tuesday, the worse of all five days, is where people can go out and do all kind of things and be forgiven on Ash Wednesday, that´s what the Catholics teach here.

In certain parts of Brazil the celebration star a month in advanced.

With that said, all the business in the country basically is close, from stores to banks, for you to have an idea, on Tuesday Roberto and I couldn't find any store open to buy some groceries, except for a few big ones, like WalMart, of course.

So, finally today things are getting back to normal.

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