Rainy day parade

Parade in the rain Jeepney full of passengers


Just before we went out to dinner with the President and his wife, we heard a lot of noise outside and stepped out to see what was going on. A parade of people, decorated cars and tricycles, and drummers was coming down the road. They took up one entire lane of the street. It was a parade by members of the local parish of the Catholic Church in honor of the feast day of their patron Saint - St. Theresa. It was sprinkling so from our balcony what we could see mostly were the moving umbrellas and then a vehicle decorated with fresh flowers and a statue of the saint and then more umbrellas and another vehicle - very colorful. The parade lasted several minutes, making quite a traffic jam, but when the parade was over, the traffic cleared very quickly.