Exhibition Place: Flatbed Trucks

flatbed trucks: Dancers at Torontos 46th annual Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival apply a last sprinkling of glitter to their torsos in the events assembly room at Exhibition Place, as intestine-shaking reggae and soca music blasts from dozens of speakers strapped to flatbed trucks, according to The Star. For me, this is a time that I can forget my everyday cares, and enjoy myself to the fullest, she says smiling, the black and red sequins crinkling on her face and Like finely-tuned athletes limbering up for a race, hundreds of women in bejewelled bras and iridescent headdresses jig and sashay on the spot to a cacophonous wall of sound. For Gemma Nicholson, 64, this is the tenth year shes taken part in the carnival parade. Today shes dressed as an octopus, with eight crimson legs sprouting from the elaborate costume that took four months to make. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.