Festival 3
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Thu 25 Jul 2013 22:57
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Highlights of Day Three of the
Raivavae Festival
We so looked forward to this evening,
the final night of the festival and what has been promised to be the best music
and dance. We got it just right last night with the treble layered clothing and
again put our picnic blanket on the ground and sat in our cockpit chairs, the
children laughed in welcome, still amazed that our comfy chairs have no
legs....We brought an umbrella tonight that we feel sure will stave off the
rain, fingers crossed. Once again the four teams paraded
in and stood through the long prayer (plenty
of words that sound like tattoo, that once again had Bear giggling). We joined
in the only word we could – Amen.
The teams performed one dance.
I do believe the skirt of Edmund did
indeed have a few less strands. We got a close up of
one of the ladies tops, sewn prettily with
shells.
We then saw the formal dance.
Very
elegant.
Bear thought the green team lost some
points with their dance.
The yellow team
were superb.
Their timing was
perfect.
The men were not
difficult to watch.
The musicians
of each team then showed their drumming prowess, one team
had a conch shell, another a digereedoo.
The mens
singles.
Yellow was
captivating.
Each of the teams presented their lady
entrant for the singles. The red team huddled tightly around their lady as to
hide her until she entered the marked square..
Edmund gave the signal to the
drummers for the red team
The green
team – we loved this outfit.
The blue entrant,
very sweet but less wiggle.
Once again the
yellow team were best. Bear loved her smile, I loved her
ink.
After the final dance
it was home time, we were desperate to know which team had won, no, we were told
the winners will not be announced until Saturday. As we are leaving tomorrow we
hope to find out from Tubuai.
ALL IN ALL WE HOPE THE YELLOW TEAM
WIN
WONDERFUL CLIMAX TO A GREAT
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