wash out!

The climax of the carnival - the main parade - was held last night accompanied by torrential rain. More rain than we have seen since we left the UK last summer.

The parade of floats went on for 7 hours!!

Everyone put on a brave face, despite the weather...

Unlike in the Azores there seem to be no religious connotations here - just an excuse to dress up and get absolutely rat-arsed. We thought the floats were quite disappointing actually....

Unlike the drag queens :)

In other news.... the toenail I lost recently has begun to grow back nicely.