La llegada de los Reyes Magos a Granada!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow , yesterday was just awesome ...

Here in Spain Santa Clause is not the one ho brings the gifts of Christmas , they are the Reyes Magos. I think in English it goes like this : The MAgian Kings. The story says that they were travelling in the night in which Jesus was born and they saw a star in the sky indicating his birth , so they brought gifts and went to see him in Belen.

So , every year in the day 5 of January all Spanish children and there families would go to the streets to welcome the Reyes Magos who arrive on camels as they have just arrived from the orient. The next morning they open there gifts!! (I like this much better than Santa) ...

So yesterday I went to the parade that welcomes the arrivals of the Reyes ,,, a friend read in the paper that they were gonna throw 12 thousand kilos of candy and that what actually happened!! It was hilarious... We had a Jordanian friend in our company who just rocks the world with his jokes , so it felt like a football game: Players are playing and a host is reporting there acts in the most sarcastic way ever ,,, God I laighed so hard I almost dropped the camera.

Children were all over the place , families were really thrilled and the main street was full with little pieces of colored cut papers, candy , decorations and light .... Everyone was thrilled especially me!!! I was taking pictures (I took something around 200 pictures in 90 minutes) little children thought that I was a reporter so they paused for my pictures!! It was raining but no one really cared... The Reyes arrived at 6.30 and it was raining candy and Joy

They threw very few toys and I caught one,,,I felt so blessed you know , what are the odds!! There were thousands of people were I was standing and they threw like 10 or 15 toys and I got one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I cant really describe this day , but I was so happy to know that I have the power to get thrilled as much as a 5 year old child ,,, Gracias Granada :)