Carnaval

Carnaval

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We went down to see the Carnaval celebration in Ocozocoatla last Sunday. It's a spectacular parade with lots of very colorful costumes, music and pandamonium. A local custom is that the onlookers and the parade participants throw flour and talc powder at each other and spray foam at everone. You can see the foam and flour in the air in a lot of this video. It's a pretty wild time; very festive and just this side of chaos. Very Mexican. Hope you enjoy.

Spraying Foam

Spraying Foam

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We went to the Carnaval celebration in Ocozocoatla, Chiapas Mexico last Sunday. There's a huge parade with great costumes and the crowd and the people in the parade throw flour and talcum powder at each other and spray foam at each other. At first Angie, my youngest daughter (6 yr. old) was a little freaked out by the throwing and spraying. Then my wife Rocio bought her a can of foam to spray. She soon got over her anxieties. This footage is of my family. Angie sprays Rocio and then sprays me. Then I spray Angie and my oldest daughter Helena and Rocio.