Carrots

Brazil is crazy about Easter. About a month ago, I started spotting carrots in trees around the city. Carrots? Yes. Big, actually giant, stuffed carrots in the trees. I have to say, I find this a bit bizarre. First of all, carrots don’t grow on trees. Secondly, since we have daily torrential downpours in Sao Paulo, these poufy carrots are constantly drenched and dripping. And, instead of the Easter Bunny being the patron saint of the commercial version of Easter (as in North America), here its just carrots and eggs everywhere. Like at the grocery store, where you get assaulted with the zillion Easter eggs in elaborate foil hanging from the ceiling and knocking into you as you try to duck through the shiny insanity to get to what you are actually looking for. Though, good luck finding anything except chocolate at the store for the month leading up to the big day. And I thought the US had made Easter into a Hallmark holiday. North America has nothing on Brazil when it comes to Easter! Hope you all had a Feliz Páscoa. Photos definitely required to demonstrate on this one.