Carnival Dreams

When I was a little girl, I was afraid of carnivals.  I would look at the rides and focus on the nuts and bolts thinking to myself "are these rides safe?"  The reason why is because my mother and uncle had told me many times that the rides were put together by "drunks."

But ever since I saw the movie "Big Fish" back in 2004, and every time I see clips of small town carnivals in other movies.  It makes you wish you had something like that in your town or city.

So no here in Houston the big Rodeo is here, and me and Patrick decided to go to the carnival recently.  It's interesting regarding the history of cernivals, because the history is quite vast or all over the place.  Some of the origins come from celebrations before Lent for fasting.  Other history even pre-dates christianity.  And of course you have the italian carnivals, the brazilian carnivals, and the oriental carnivals.

Isn't it strange that I also have attended a brazilian carnival within 7 days of the other carnival.
Below are some vintage carnival advertisements and then some pictures of our own.