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Feliz Día de Reyes Mago, or WHY IS THERE A TRAFFIC JAM ON SUNDAY
What should have been a 10 minute drive over to Graham and Grand ended up taking 45, and the only reason it ended at 45 was because I stopped trying to find a shortcut, parked anywhere and walked. What I thought was a police action of some sort was simply a parade.
In January.
It took some creative Googling to find out what the parade was for (because, short of Philly, parading anywhere outside of California in January strikes me as insane.)
Feliz Día de Reyes Mago, or Three Kings Day, is celebrated on January 6 to commemorate the biblical story of the Three Wise Men, or Magi, who traveled to Bethlehem to give the baby Jesus gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. The holiday is popular throughout Latin America and Hispanic communities in the United States . In many countries it is Three Kings Day, rather than Christmas Day, when gifts are exchanged. After the parade, the “Three Wise Men” distribute toys to local children.
time warp, december 24
I don’t spend a lot of time in Hasidic Williamsburg, but I do spend a lot of time driving through it. The first dozen or so times I drove through, it was just *odd*: there are sections which feel like certain parts of Jerusalem, giving me total deja vu, and others that just feel like we’re in the 18th century, making you feel like you’d temporarily stepped through some kind of time warp.
For example, this photo, which I took early Saturday afternoon. What year are we in? See the full, uncropped version after the jump.
