Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring!

There were masks, pancakes, music, dancing, laughter, and pranking. There was a holiday today celebrating the return of spring. A figure of winter was made out of straw and burnt to make things easier for spring to return. Yay spring. I want everyone to know that I was the last person in the whole celebration to receive a free pancake. Everyone was running out of batter but I was lucky enough to grab a napkin and stick it in the ladies' face who was frying them. :) I didn't even have to pay for it! I was also part of the procession of dancing people that walked to the water-front to burn Mother Winter. Lots of fun things were going on... I even saw someone dressed up like a Jewish salesman trying to sell women's underwear to everyone. There was a whole farm of animals as well. One of my favorites were the t.v. news reporters walking around and "filming" everything that was going on.