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This year’s Carnaval parade had all the elements we’ve come to expect: dance groups wearing peacock-style outfits, DJs on trucks spinning music, salsa dancers, stilt walkers, marching bands, and floats from various local organizations and city services. I thought Recology’s dancing garbage collectors were surprisingly on point, running around with recycling and compost bins in the sweltering sunlight.
Here’s some of the more unusual highlights. First, a visit from the masked man himself… Zorro!
A photographer really wanted a photo of this dog, but the dog just wasn’t interested in fame.
Elvis showed up with his pink Cadillac. When the parade stopped for a couple of minutes, he ran backwards through the parade to bust some moves with a burlesque troupe.
To complete this post here’s Batala’s drum troupe at the tail end of the parade: