Postscript to the BFB article below

So, I actually wrote the article pasted below before attending this year's Carnaval Death-Fest. Here are a couple of addendums that happened after this year's festivities:

• First, Carnival is spelled Carnaval in Spanish, woops. Should have caught that before the paper went to press. Screw it, it's an English paper.
  
• Next, if the police catch you after you have sprayed them with water, they DO actually throw you in jail. Just ask Franz at the Surf Shack in Canoa.
• A 20 lb. Mahi Mahi that will feed 30 people costs 30 dollars.

• Phosphorescence in the ocean at night is one of the most FUCKING COOL THINGS you will ever see.
• Pina Coladas are best made with fresh coconuts, fresh pineapples, and copious amounts of rum. The rum does not have to be fresh.

• A dixie-horn attached to an F250 Lariatt Edition with dual-exhaust headers attracts plenty of attention as it is driven through the countryside of Ecuador.
• And, when hiring a launch to take 20 gallons of diesel out to a stranded yacht from Panama, it's best if said F250 has a winch with which to pull the boat down to the beach during low tide.

• I will GREATLY miss my friends in Canoa when we move to Turkey

• It is much more styleee to arrive at your beach house after being picked up (by said missed friends) in a de-roofed 1974 Land Rover driven on the beach, than by taxi on the road.

• I like Yonder Mountain String Band at loud volumes much more than I like Reggaton at loud volumes.
• Plane tickets for Carnaval should be bought well-in-advance
• And, below, the movies I promised in the article...

Pyrotechnic Prowess at the Fiestas De Guapalo:



Roof-top Chiva action during the Fiestas De Quito:



As I said, for fear of legal repercussions, there are no movies of squirting police officers with water, but here's a photo of the infamous "espuma" or foam of Carnaval.