Caribbean Parade

So this is somewhat of a late post, but during the first week I was here, I went down to the city center with a few others to get a cell phone. As we were down there a HUGE festival/Caribbean Parade was going on. Here are some pictures from it. The Netherlands owns Caribbean islands, so there is a lot of Caribbean impact here, and this was their celebration. Totally came on a surprise - though I'm happy I had my Camera!






-- Info: The Netherlands Antilles previously known as the Netherlands West Indies or Dutch Antilles/West Indies, consists of two groups of islands that form part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. The islands are Curaçao and Bonaire, which are just off the Venezuelan coast and belong to the Leeward Antilles; and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, which are located southeast of the Virgin Islands and are part of the Leeward Islands. These Dutch islands form an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The islands' economy depends mostly upon tourism, international financial services, shipping, and petroleum. The Netherlands Antilles are scheduled to be dissolved as a unified political entity on 10 October 2010, so that the five constituent islands will each attain a new constitutional status within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. --