Tomatina!!!

Imagine will you...thousands upon thousands of people having made their way to a small town near Valencia, Spain. No more than 30 min. from the beach, this once quiet and serene town, Bunol, becomes the center of the worlds largest tomato fight. Crammed into the streets like cattle, the pushing, the heat and the overwhelming body odor combined with the the excitement of the being the first to throw the tomatoes, everyone is pumped and shouting with anticipation....

Once in the crowd and there was enough space between people, there were shouts of "camasita, camasita, camasita"! If there was a shirt on, you better beleive it would be ripped off! I was hiding between Alejandro and Laini, and I was the only one fortunate enough to had kept my shirt on!

It is quite possibly one of the most disgusting and exhilrating events that I have even been a witness to! It was crazy and unfortunately dangerous as well. There were a few people that headed to the emergency room right afterwards. One of those people was my tomato soaked roommate, Laini. Her eye was hit after a fellow "tomatinaer" threw his head back and struck her in the face...poor thing..

I ended up leaving after a only ten minutes, because Alejandro was about to throw up...haha! So funny!...

We made it out alive, and I am sorry to say, I will mostly likely never go to it again. Once is enough for me, however, I think that next year I'll throw grapes....

I don't have pictures because our disposible camera was ripped out of our hands when the tomato chaos began.... however check out the link and see for yourself this was! Que asco!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050831/ap_on_fe_st/spain_tomato_fight_4

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