We walked back through the town since we wanted to see the ‘Placing of the Flowers’
It is quite the event. The parade streets are packed with people watching and cheering.
The neighborhoods show up in full costume, from newborns to great-grandparents and proudly walk, followed by their own band, into the square and hand the flowers over to the workers on the statue.
They start filling in the pattern from the top. We will not be in town long enough to see the final design.
The streets are filled with beautiful costumes either waiting for their turn to add their flowers, or more relaxed people that are done with their parade.
It is like the whole town is filled to the brim with costumes and colors.
And firecrackers.
It is St. Patrick’s Day after all, so we had to stop at one of the Irish pubs for a Guiness.
