Lizard Man's Travels

This site is a journal of my travels and other adventures while I shift from doing postdoctoral research on tree frog ecology in Darwin, Australia, to research on digestive physiology of lizards and bats in Sede Boqer, Israel. Enough friends have been asking me for regular updates on this journey, that I thought this would be the best forum to keeep everyone up to date (including me).

Monday, March 21, 2005

Purim Parade


Purim Parade 1
Originally uploaded by wandering lizard.
Saturday there was a big parade in Sede Boqer for Purim. It is a fun holiday, where people get dressed up in costumes, especially the little kids. My understanding is that it celebrates the rescue of a princess from the turks, so little boys dress as turks (or soldiers, etc.) and girls dress as princesses. Of course, there are various aliens, rabbis, drag queens, monsters, big blue things, etc. also. It was a beautiful day for a parade - sunny and warm. I have been enjoying the spring here. I haven't experienced on for a few years, so it has been nice. The parade was huge. The high school art class made a bunch of the floats. There were four themes, some of which were obvious (Alice in Wonderland, Toy Story, a farm) and one that wasn't (I think it was some sort of enviromental/local environment/soil theme, complete with isopods, volcanos and miners). There were literally thousands of people in the crowd, from all over the region. I wouldn't have believed that Sede Boqer could hold so many people. Quite good fun.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sounds like a heck of a lot of fun. Thnaks for posting them pics. Keep em coming! :)

-Seb

1:31 PM  

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