Today we walked around the city in the
morning seeing some of the floats awaiting this evening’s street parade.
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On our morning exploration, we left MAASDAM
with the destination of seeing the oldest cathedral in Rio. We had walked only a few blocks when we came
upon a side street full of floats. The
floats are so big that upper and side parts were lowered, taken in or
detached to move them.
After we looked at a number of the floats,
we reset our course for the cathedral.
Once again we only got a few blocks before our interest was captured by
a convoy of floats on the move to the beginning of the parade route. Many were self-propelled, but some were
pushed by gangs of men who appeared to be having fun doing it.
For the third time we headed for the
cathedral, this time reaching it only to discover a shabby, uninteresting
edifice on the outside that was locked up tighter than a drum.
Returning to MAASDAM, we
came upon another convoy of floats moving to the start of the parade route.
We eventually made it back
to the ship in time to get some food and rest before departing for a night of
parades at the Sambadome.
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