Event Hosted By Paolo Link To Event Start slideshow The Parade of the Lost Souls Written By Paolo 10/28/2006 click for full size Quite possibly the best Parade of the Lost Souls ever! The group started quite big: Rudy, clearly recognizable in his Spiderman costume, Paolo, Candace, Naomi, Sue and Erin, and then got even bigger when Eunice managed to find us, thanks to Sue's astounding descriptive ability over the phone. The place was really crowded, and many people displayed amazing costumes: a giant skull-head, countless devils and witches, a couple of noble Romans, Marie Antoinette, a television-head man, a few superheroes... But our superhero was the most recognized one... it was literally a blast! By the end of the night Rudy collected: the screams of joy and the absolute admiration of 85 kids, the screams of excitement of 3 superheroines and at least 2 rough butt pats from unknown donors. Paolo was very jealous. Other highlights of the night: fire dancers, fire blowers and hula-hoop fire dancers; many incredible stilts walkers, many musical bands -- from the powerful rhythms of the drummers, through the funky performance of the mythical Carnival Band, to an improbable brass and flute remake of Yeah by Usher. The group had a really good time and thanks to a true miracle managed to stay compact all the way to the end, when most us walked together to the sky-train. More Photos

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Candace	arg! I still have one of the Carnival Band's songs stuck in my head! How do I get it out?? I totally regret not dressing up and I'm going to start working on next year's costume right now. The best costume I saw at the parade was a guy dressed up like the game Operation.
rudy	It was a great time. I liked the various musicians and other entertainers, and just walking around checking out all of the creative costumes people had designed. One that I really liked was a guy dressed in a '50s style science fiction space suit, complete with aluminum foil laser gun. The parade didn't seem too structured, but that suits me just fine as I liked the casual atmosphere of a community street party. The reaction to Spider-Man was a little overwhelming, and something that neither I nor my derriere will soon forget.
Sue	This was so much fun It was a bit confusing at first, just a mass of people everywhere. But once we started following one of the moving drum bands, we figured it out and got to see a lot of different 'stations' along the parade route. It was way too cool!!
Mona	no wonder No wonder we didn't find you guys...I usually look for that beacon of red hair!