The patron saint´s festival, or rather fiestas patronales, has just gotten underway. Well, technically it started yesterday, Monday, but I guess the festivals organizers thought it would be a little dumb of them to start a party on Monday when they might as well take advantage of the weekend before hand too. So this party has been going on since Saturday. And will continue for a week and a half until Thursday or rather be that Monday, once again to take adavantage of the party potential of the weekend.

What does this fiesta patronales involve anyway? Well, there´s the usual celebratory stuff like sack races, horse races, and pole climbing but mainly it´s about the party that goes down everynight in the parque and surronding street. The electricity has been out for most of today and still is as I write this at 9pm. This would usually mean a super tranquil night when I can see the bright glow of families sitting around a candle or gas lamp comming from an otherwise pitch black and silent house and street. And it´s always a great time to catch the super bright stars.

But on a festival night like this an apagon is no match for Brillo Lite and his soundsystem and the colmado´s and pool hall´s and any other system I´m hearing right now. All mixed together, depending on their relative distances to me, into a really confusing and continually thumping musical Sancocho. Reminding me of a radio stuck between two or three stations at once, but so much louder then any of those old turn dial radios could ever get. Actually, any one of the numerous speaker set ups is probably equal to the speakers on one half of the stage of the loudest Dave Matthews Band show I been to. And my town has less people then an average DMB show. That really means we got more speaker wattage going right now in Pedro Sánchez per capita then DMB does at their Charlotte, NC show tonight. Ha!