Lighting the Park

There is a tradition in Antigua of lighting all of the trees in the Central Park. The trees are wrapped with strings of white lights and a ceremony is held in which the street lights are extinguished, and after a countdown, all of the trees and red and green lights on the fountain are turned on. We heard about the event from our teachers, so we went to see the lighting and took some video for you to see. After the trees were lit, they had a lot of fireworks and a marimba band playing Christmas music.