Day 4 of 5 - 20 August
There were several things going on today, but I didn't take any pictures -
- An Exposición de Manualidades (Handcraft Exposition) sponsored by the Women's Organization
- An Animation Group for the small children
- A Futbol (Soccer) game
- and at 9:pm, dancing with the orchestra "Mambos Cuartet"
Today is the last day of the fiesta.
The day starts out with a mass at noon. Following the mass, the statue of San Ramón is taken for another tour of the village. This will be his last time to see the village until next year.
This is Margaret and Colin dressed for Mass.
Following Mass, everybody goes home to change into something comfortable.
At 2:pm, everybody returns to the Plaza Mayor for a paella lunch. This is an event nobody misses! The paella is cooked in a pan that feeds 500.
It doesn't take long for every seat at every table to be occupied.
As you can see, tables stretch from Lo Portal (the entrance to the Plaza Mayor).....
....all the way to the far side of the Plaza Mayor.
Then the signal is given that the food is ready, people quickly line up with plates in their hands
(Actually, the people who prepared the seafood paella serve it up in plastic plates -- but sometimes the plastic plate bends and you risk spilling your food. Therefore, people take their solid plates and put the plastic plate on it.)
A bunch of happy people with plates of paella!
Andrea, Mark, Emilia and David
After everyone has eaten, groups break-out in song. Here the group is being led by a guitar.
You can't tell in this "still" photo, but the majority of people in the picture are clapping in time to the music.
Well, that's the end of another successful fiesta to San Ramón. But it will take place again next year.
~•~ The End ~•~
