Pirotechnics with Jazz

Last night I joined about 5000 other people in Placa Espanya for the grand finale of the Merce festival. This weekend festival began last Friday and ended last night (Monday). Every evening there were fireworks down at Barceloneta beach, concerts throughout the city, castellers, correfoc, every type of traditional folk dance, a circus in cuitadella park,... the list of things to do was endless. Anyways, last nights performance topped them all. The theme of the 40 minute pirotechnical show was 'the History of Jazz' and so the fireworks were correographed to everyting from New Orleans Dixieland, Ella Fitzgerald, and Marilyn Monroe's happy birthday, to Duke Ellington's big band jazz, some Rag-time, swing, and tin-pan alley, to the more modern jazz, fusion, and Afro-Latin/Soul jazz. They had everything, and I am sure I will never see more spectacular fireworks in my life. I took many videos of the show, but I have yet to figure out how to post movies on this blog, so the still pictures will have to do until I have a chance to show you the videos. Enjoy :)

Mum&Dad arrive next Monday for a 2 week holiday! Words cannot describe how much I am looking forward to seeing them. How has 4 months already gone by?

Sarah.