Day 16 - Party in Bluefields...

• Palo de Mayo (aka Maypole) is the Bluefields carnival, celebrating spring and rain after months of dry season. FERTILITY! We have parties in different neighborhood every weekend. Sometimes it could be over-the-top fun. Today, we went to Santa Rosa neighborhood for the party. When we got there at 10pm, there are four half naked women dancing on stage, totally unsynchronized.

 

... while the kids runs around and play in front of the stage.   

The little playground slowly turned into a soccer field. The boys were using crushed beer cans and coke bottles as their ball. Soon after, an old lady with a potato bags full of aluminum cans came and started fighting with the kids for the can. She won.

When the women were dancing, the kids seem to be more interested than anyone else there.

 Don't get me wrong, there were a lot of people there. They were just standing there, doing nothing, as if they were waiting for something to happen.

At one point, for some reason, the women decided to stop dancing, while the music continues to play. The entire party proceed to be a mass of crowd standing around staring at the stage while the kid play soccer with beer cans. These women would be standing on the stage, obviously bored. The girl standing right next to the DJ would sometimes stick her hands in her bra to wipe off her boob sweat and sniff it. All this time, the MC standing on the far left of the picture would be randomly broadcasting the party, singing along the songs randomly, while facing to the side of the stage like this the whole time.

When Ludacris's "Move Bitch" started playing, he would sing, "lean back, lean back, lean back."

A few songs after "Move Bitch," the party ended, and everyone went home.