Feria en Chipiona!!

Although the feria in Chipiona was not as big as the others back in May, it was still something we wanted to see and be a part of.  Feria began on Thursday evening and went through the Sunday- making Monday a holiday as the 'rasaka' (There are not many places in the world that I can say will allow their employees and the schools to close for a day to be able to recuperate from a weekend of partying- or what they call it as the 'hangover' day').
Sunday afternoon- we caught the tail end of feria to watch the Virgin be taken from the church and carried around the town.  A tradition that has been carried out for many years.  People from all over come to participate, watch and enjoy the weekend.

Leaving the church

 Enough mini horses?!

 We could not believe Liam slept through everything including the crowd walking by with the virgin, the marching band that would occasionally stop right in front of us, and the sun right in his face.

 These are some of the men who carry the virgin under the statue.

 Some important family- not sure who though...

 Here she comes...

 She stopped for about 15 minutes to change out the men who carry her.  She is so heavy that they can only walk a certain length before they change out again.

After the crowd passed, we stopped at Maka's families ice cream shop.  It was SO good!!

 Best milk shakes ever...

 Walking back to the house we passed by the church.

 We made it just in time to see the virgin being carried around the parking lot of the church...

 We ran into Vito and his family

Once we got home, we went to the roof and watched the fire works- at 12AM.