September 15th is Costa Rica's Independence day. Everyone starts celebrating on the 14th. Every child goes to his/her own school and at 6:00 PM everyone stops and sings the national anthem. Then the students have a parade with lanterns that they have made. We tried going to a local elementary school to see this lantern parade, but for some reason, it never happened. But we saw lots of very creative lanterns! On the actual 15th is a day of parades. Most communities have a parade with the children from all the area schools taking part in the parade. We did make it to the parade in our neighborhood.
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| Nathan and Juliana wore their red, white and blue to school. |
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| Juliana thought her rain boots looked good with her outfit. |
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| The children surprised us with a parade through the school. |
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| Juliana wasn't too happy about being in the parade after she saw us! |
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| Local school marching with flags |
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| Local school marching band |
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| Drum bands are very popular. Nathan would love to be in one of these |
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| Typical Costan Rican dress for girls. |
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| Watching the parade. (And being a Saturday in the fall, of course they were wearing their Gamecocks clothes!) |
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