Happy Day of the Pine Tree!

Only in Honduras do you have a National Holiday to celebrate a tree!! The pine tree is one of the national symbols of Honduras and so they celebrate it. In style. They have been celebrating all week and today was the big one. A huge carnival in town in the afternoon and then an enormous party in the town centre tonight. Every year I have missed the night celebrations as I have told it is far too dangerous. So this year, after youth group I rallied 10 of the men to go down with me...10 bodyguards! And it was fine, lots of families, lots of music. They were also selling alcohol on the streets and so yes, it will get v dangerous. Every year people die and get raped tis true! But I went early..and the music and dancing wasn't to start til 11pm - to go on until 3 or 4am. I left before any of that happened, was home by 10pm. But the atmosphere was great, a real celebration. but .....for a pine tree???