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| Waiting on the street corner as the sunlight faded from the sky |
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| Giant gnome lantern |
Last night we went down to Uralla for the Lantern Parade, an annual Uralla tradition for seven years running. Kids from the different Uralla schools make lanterns and walk in the parade with their parents, accompanied by some larger professional lanterns as well.
It was a really fun event -- watching the flickering lanterns ghost down the dark street and the the bobbing, glowing lights as they approached from down the hill. The parade was followed by an event at the park that coincided with Earth Hour. Uralla is implementing a new program to have all its energy come from renewable sources, and is the first in Australia to do so.
There was music, dancing, a skit by the kids, and a sausage sizzle (of course.) The skit included a song about nothing other than compost -- which was a startling revelation to us Americans that Australians pronounce 'compost' with identical vowel sounds. We say /ˈkɒmpoʊst/ but the pronunciation in Australian English is ˈkɒmpɒst/. It's just another addition to the list of Australian words we didn't know we didn't know how to pronounce.
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| Bee and flower lanterns |
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| Rainbow serpent |
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| Giant possum lantern |
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| Lanterns made by the Uralla school kids |
THAT .... is totally cool! Uralla sounds hip (Dot says not to talk like this, but to say It's a really nice place).
ReplyDeleteI think Uralla's pretty hip too :D It has a good vibe, a little different from Armidale.
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