Okay, so I'm sort of a fan of the whole Zombie thing (is it a subculture? A movement? I'm not sure, exactly, so that's why I called it a "thing.") I've got all the "Resident Evil" movies, for example, and I've gotta confess that the "Castle" episode a couple years ago featuring the living dead was one of my all-time favorites.
So when Josep, who thinks Zombies are very cool even though he regularly blows them to pieces on his X-Box, said that he wanted to go to Sitges because folks there are holding a week-long Zombie festival I was pretty much in.
We got there around 8 p.m. on opening night, (yeah, his mom drove... I felt so junior high) and discovered that we were just in time for the Zombie Walk... about 350 folks paraded through the town's very crowded streets in their makeup and costumes much to the delight - and the occasional screaming horror - of people lined up to watch them. Some of the Zombies really got into the roles: Staggering walk, drooling, guttural sounds, eyes rolled up into the top of their sockets, lunges at unsuspecting watchers... others not so much; they were busy taking pictures of the crowd with their phones and cameras.
After the parade we went down to the beachfront - Sitges is a little more than halfway to Barcelona and it has a great beach, an old castle and a lot of really fine restaurants - where Elena was attacked (sort of) by a Zombie and we wound up eating sushi.
Pretty good night, all things considered, and we even managed to get home with our brains intact.
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| A Zombie casts a baleful eye on Elena. |
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| Hey, I might be dead but that doesn't mean I can't check in on Tumblr and Twitter and update my Facebook page... |
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| The Zombies were cool but the little kid in the back was priceless. |
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| Cool makeup by the parade people and some of the watchers. |
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| More cool Zombie makeup. |
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| I liked this guy... and apparently so did the woman watching him so intently. |
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| These folks weren't in the parade, but with those demonic red eyes maybe they should have been. |
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| Yeah, there's more than a couple Zombie fans in this part of Spain. |
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| More cool Zombie make-up. |
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