Friday, December 10, 2010

National Day, 2010: Stilts, dixie land bands and all those freaking car decals

December 2 is but a faded memory now. The Sheikh Khalifa trucker hats have been tucked away, the red, white, green and black faux mohawk wig folded, the cars taken into the shop where an underpaid worker will toil for hours removing the hundreds of heart and star-shaped decals he placed only days before. Next year will be a big one, that's for sure. But for now, here are a few more shots from this year's celebrations:

The cars, of course.
Because nothing says "national pride" like a person on stilts...



...or a dixie land band...

































 
...that, like most live mall events here, the crowd was obsessed with. 

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