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A man stands on the street with his mountainous pile of balloons for sale.
I really wish that I had had a bunch of balloons to sell during these past festivals in Burgos. If I had sold balloons, I probably could have made enough money to retire right now at the ripe old age of 24. As you can see from the photo above, one big part of the festivities were balloon vendors who “set up shop” in the middle of the street selling their goods to children passing by. I think it was probably a pretty lucrative business — every child I saw who walked past these makeshift “balloon shops” wanted a balloon.
I was talking with a friend of mine who has a young child about these balloon vendors and she told me that she just couldn’t afford to buy all the balloons that her daughter wanted every time they passed by. Her solution was simple: she told her daughter that the balloons weren’t for sale — they were just for looking at. It was a pretty clever solution if you ask me, as long as the child believed it. In any event, I think I’m going to buy myself a large stock of balloons for next year’s festival — maybe afterwards I can use the money I earn to buy a Ferrari.
This post is part of a mini-series about the 2009 Burgos Festivals. To read about other aspects of the Burgos Fiestas, check out my Burgos Fiestas 2009 page. You also may be interested in checking out my Fiesta Photos on Picasa.
Hasta luego,
–Chris
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