SpiceMas 2010! CARNIVAL - Monday Night Mas

One of the last events of Carnival is Monday Night Mas, appropriately taking place on Monday night from around 9:00 PM until about midnight.  Alike Jouvert, Monday Night Mas is a parade celebration where anybody can participate.  For this event you choose a team and purchase a kit containing a shirt, hat, glowstick and a cup, which gets filled with alcohol along the parade route. 

We decided to join the Carib (the local brew) team, and went to the brewery at 1pm on Sunday to purchase our kits.  Each kit cost $65 EC (about $25 US). My kit included a yellow Carib cup, tank top, a green glittery mask with lights, spikey light-up bracelet and necklace and a light up wand.  CW's kit included a yellow Carib cup, a T-shirt, a light-up jester hat, a spikey light-up bracelet and a light up wand.

Team Carib Monday Night Mas costume kits

 Ready to parade with our frineds Mo and Gina

 Joining the festivities with Justin in the background

Monday Night Mas video clip #1

 We paraded down through the streets of St. George's to local Soca music (Soca = Soul-Calypso). There was a music truck with a DJ and speakers toward the front of our team, one in the middle and a beer truck at the rear.  We stayed pretty close to the beer truck.

 

Monday Night Mas video clip #2

One of the music trucks

Monday Night Mas video clip #3

 Glowing wands from the Carib team as far as you could see!

SpiceMas 2010! CARNIVAL - Jouvert

This past week was SpiceMas 2010, a.k.a. Carnival, in Grenada.  It was a little over a week filled with competitions and celebrations from August 2nd - August 11th.

Here are some pictures from Jouvert, a paint parade in the streets of St. George's that starts on the second Monday of Carnival around 5:00 AM and continues through dawn.

3:00 AM before the fun started, having a few beers at various bars in St. George's

Around 4:00 AM the Carib Team bus arrived with our yellow paint

It started with a layer of yellow

We found the red team from Bananas!

The sun is starting to rise...

And we found our friends Sherry and Monty!

 

A video clip of us celebrating at Jouvert

Based on our colors, I think we joined every team!

Here's the blue team!

Not a real gun, in case you're wondering.  Just part of the revelry!

A local with a University of Maryland shirt! I was thrilled to see this!

The sun is all the way up now!

Looking back the way we came

Taking a rest with some water

The parade continues on down the street

 How we looked when we arrived home at 8:00 AM...CW is almost clean under his shirt

Booze Cruise 2.0 - Post Midterms

I organized a booze cruise (the same trip I went on a few weeks ago) for the Foundations of Medicine students to celebrate the conclusion of a painful week of midterms. 

Boarding the catamaran

First rum-punch of the day with my SO girlfriends, Sheridan and Sherry

My mother-in-law Nancy

CW and I enjoying rum-punch and Carib

Another SO, Robert, and I snorkeling in Flamingo Bay

Post-snorkeling beach and ocean fun

Me jumping from the boat, onto the water tramploine and into the clear blue ocean

Swimming with a beer in hand is an important skill, which Sheridan and I have both mastered

Foundations of Medicine students liming on a water trampoline

What a beautiful day! Successful booze-cruise!