Military Parade

Day two of the independence day celebrations was capped off with a military parade. We had never seen anything like it. Literally thousands of soldiers parading down the street with rocket launchers, tanks, boats, bazookas, nurses and trained birds. It was crazy to say the least. We made an attempt to watch the parade downtown, but apparently we would have had to arrive about 4 months early in order to get a spot. Luckily we found a shady spot back in our neighborhood and had a great view of the show. Unluckily, we left the house at 9:30 for a parade that allegedly started at 10:00, but did not, in fact, reach us until 1:00 in the afternoon. The people watching was good and we enjoyed the sunny day.

2010

Chicharrones cart...aka deep fried pork skins! MMM!

This guy was carving roses out of mangoes...
I would have tried one if I didn't see the dirty box these came from!

Blissfully unaware that we still had a good 4 hour wait ahead of us.

There was a pretty good airshow going on too...
I never realized that commercial airliners could fly in formation!

Canada eh?

Nothing says best army in the world like plumed caps! USA!

A small sample of the hundreds of tanks that day.

This annoying old man wouldn't stop fishing cans out of the overflowing garbage can and stomping them?!?

Only the finest of modern warfare displayed here...bayonets!

And finally, the trained army falcons!
FYI we use carrier pigeons instead of email here!