Peace Corps Guyana: Trinidad!

During February, a group of us decided to take a little vacation and head to Trinidad for their famous Carnival festival. (Caribbean Mardi Gras) We rented a huge house through Airbnb and flew the quick, hour long flight over to begin the festivities. The house was a 5 minute walk from the beach, Trinidad is so clean and everyone is so welcoming and nice! We had a great time. Our first event for Carnival was the jouvert party, where different bands dance to "bring in the sun" and start Carnival. We had to be in Port of Spain at 3am to join our band, the Nasty Devils. Then we started down the street with the other bands, each with their own theme, playing their own music and separated by big trucks in front and behind us. The truck at the back of us was our drink truck and they gave us a tumbler so we could just run back and have it refilled and rejoin the party! We were all a little worried about staying awake until 3 and then basically dancing and drinking until 9am but it was so fun. SO FUN. They had colored water that they would periodically spray on us. We just danced our little hearts out and had the greatest time. 9am came quickly and we made our way back to our house where we were all super exhausted and slept that day away.

Jouvert gals, Sam, Carly, Emily, Me and Karin

(Notice how clean we look!)

Carly and Me after dancing for 6 hours straight! Still smiling!

Our dirty feet...my shoes still aren't the same

Emily and Me after making it back to the house, exhausted!

(Notice how dirty we look!)

After we had recovered from Jouvert it was Carnival time! We headed back to Port of Spain and went to the main street called The Avenue. We saw tons of beautiful floats, dancers and costumes and again, had a great time. We danced, we hung out and everyone was so friendly!