Noche de Rabinos

The Night of Radishes happens every year in the Zocalo on December 23.  It is a BIG deal here.  Platforms for the exhibition are set up all the way around the Zocalo which is quite large.  Different groups and different communities enter their scenes made totally of radishes - huge radishes that are grown especially for this event.  There are also categories of scenes made from flowers or corn husks.  In front of the tables where the scenes are set up is a platform for viewing.  They open the viewing platform at about 4:00 in the afternoon, but a line has been forming for hours.  This line can be several blocks long, and this goes on until around midnight.  I went earlier in the afternoon before they opened the viewing platform, and I could see everything perfectly from the other side of the platform.  I had to pick my way through the crowds who were doing the same, but it was better than waiting in that line.