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Image via Wikipedia Today was the Grand Carnival Parade, it was very colorful and we even had a couple of participating Islands taking part this year. One group that always participates, the Guadeloupe straw and drum band style team, didn’t show. It could have been caused due to the fact that our Carnival schedule was changed to not have the parades passing through the streets for Ascension day.

Anyway, I have taken many pictures for the St. Maarten Carnival, this years Grand Carnival Parade had a whole load of Cruise Ships on St. Maarten, so Philipsburg was packed. Many tourists was watching the parade passing through frontstreet.

Many people from french Sint. Maarten also came over to watch the grand parade.

I have tried to organize them in groups to minimize the load time of the pictures, so here goes:

Here are our Queens:

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Antigua and Barbuda Mass Troupe (They were participating with us this year):

Also in this gallery is our old folks caravan, our famous DJ Electra, see if you can spot her and Pa Ben, I think he will be easy to find.

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Unleash The World of Serengeti by Carol Tackling:

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A little mixture, you can also see an up and coming star… ZEE, has a voice to kill, she was showing it off with the band.

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Gateway To Atlantis by Blue Point:

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Jewel Survivors… presented by GEBE

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A mixture…

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Another mixed group, I think I have mixed many of the picture from other groups together, forgive… I was under the calypso influence, not thinking clearly right now.

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Brenda Wathey presents Savage Garden:

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More Brenda…

I did have a picture of Brenda some where in the bunch, but I seem to have misplaced it. Or, maybe it’s here, she always has a costume that is very different from the pack, she should be easy to spot, I will have to go over these pictures. I do believe she was wearing a black costume, if you spot he, let me know.

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And the final set of pictures from the 2008 Grand carnival Parade of St. Maarten.

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Will redo the pictures, and give you another updated version. For now enjoy, you can still see the colorful displayed costumes and the jolly participants jamming their way through my little Island.

Oh, before I forget, my six year old daughter, Iovana, was shaking her booty this year, don’t know where she learned it, was not from her parents. She was also running into the parade and asking for picture, see if you can spot her. should be easy, look for a little cutey, with a bright smile, and no costume…