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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Farroupilhia

Tomorrow is a holiday in our state known as Farroupilhia (fa-hoe-peel-ya). The only real way I know how to explain Farroupilhia is to say that it is a celebration of the Gaúcho spirit. Every year at this time the gaúchos of the area have a large camp out near downtown for almost the entire month of September. If you were to go to the gaúcho camp you would see a lot of people walking around in traditional gaúcho attire, lots of horses, good food and some traditional gaúcho products for sell.

Today we took Elisa down to the Farroiupilhia/gaúcho camp. We had a great time walking around and checking out all the cool stuff. I will share with you one really close call that I witnessed. Elisa's favorite song is "Baa, baa black sheep". I looked over as we were walking down a path to see "Baa, baa black sheep" hanging upside down with a crowd gathering around to see him get slaughtered! Yikes! Now that is Farroupilhia! Thankfully, Elisa wasn't exposed to that part of Farroupilhia.

Here are some photos and a video of our family at Farroupilhia. We really think that Elisa had a great time. Check out the video to see her taking her first horse ride!

Daddy and Elisa in traditional Gaúcho clothing.

BEEF!

Mommy helping Elisa on her first horsey ride!

A Gaúcho walking down a path at Farroupilhia.

Mommy and Elisa with the state (Rio Grande do Sul) and Brazilian flags.

A miniature horse ready to pull a buggy.


2 comments:

Matt said...

Yeah, but did they have funnel cakes? ;-)

I guess that one sheep would have had to answer no to the question of "have you any wool."

Sascha Terry said...

Unfortunately, we did not see any funnel cakes. Trust me, we were on the lookout!

One of the unfortunate things about that particular sheep is that it indeed had more wool than any other sheep I have ever seen. Too bad.