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I am on my way to tarpon springs today
tarpon springs is about 40 minutes from
Tampa
where I live and the reason why I'm
gonna type in Springs today is because
my friend invited me to brunch and then
afterwards were gonna go see the
Epiphany I didn't know what that was
until I looked it up and apparently in
Tarpon Springs every year around this
time and January its January 6 today
they celebrate the Epiphany at the
spring bio in Tarpon Springs they're
supposed to be people at this event and
type of sprinkles of that big so I'm
guessing that's gonna be pretty crowded
I'm not huge on huge gatherings like
this but it sounds pretty interesting so
I'm excited to kind of see what it's all
about so what they do is I think around
noon the archbishop will throw a cross
into the spring by you and 57 young men
will go into the dive into the water and
hope to get that cross so the Epiphany
is a centuries-old celebration
commemorating the baptism of Jesus
Christ and after the cross is retrieved
afterwards they're gonna have
celebrations
there's gonna be some festivities with
food and other things that I don't know
but we'll we'll find out
also tarpon springs is a Greek town
there's a lot of Greek culture there and
it's known for awesome Greek restaurants
and they also are known for sponges
there because I used to be a big sponge
dock area so you'll find lots of
different sponges there little shops
it's a really neat area my friend lives
right by this great volume so that's why
she's hosting this brunch and I'm vitami
over so
I'm going kind of a roundabout way to my
friend's house since she lives right by
Spring Valley where the event is going
to be held there's a lot of road
closures so make sure if you're going to
go this event to look on their website
or there's information if you google it
about all the road closures that are
happening so yeah I'm just going to go
kind of around to avoid like the main
area of downtown tarpon springs
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nobody in there to go
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so now we're walking over to the spring
Bayou to see the archbishop throw the
cross into the water
luckily my friend lives super close so
we're all just walking over
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review a lot of people here
twelve thirty thirty Mormon
somebody's singing
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yeah
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boys already smile for the cross and
it's all I missed it for like on the
other side open apparently has to be
like way close to it to see them do this
dive and it happened like super cats
like five seconds there - got it
tell them about the rumor going around a
boy to catch the KRAS is responsible for
kissing all the female homeowners of
Tarpon Springs before day's end good
luck to the winner now we're gonna head
into the city
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is that where we're gonna find the boy
not I think that's where the boys
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you know what's going on now their
blessing these are all the diverse
family
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I got the crime
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Oh Betty home now it was a pretty
interesting event I didn't actually get
to see the boy something across the
water to hit the cross but I know for
next time if I go I need to be on the
other side of the water to actually see
it for somebody that at my head I was
thinking they might have to like some
kind of hard to get this cross but it
was a very short distance so it happens
super fast in like ten seconds and it
was over to chin just like that and then
afterwards they go to the church and
they everybody congratulate the boy and
got to saw him for a little bit he looks
super happy and he was like the
celebrity for the day and apparently you
know for the rest of the year he's
supposed to have good luck
and I'm sure they'll retained his
celebrity status to both the year until
like the next year when the boy will get
the cross and then there's supposed to
be some festivities afterwards I walked
around for a but we didn't stop by
because I had to go to the bathroom so
we all went back to my friend's house
and kind of enjoyed our time there for
the rest of the day but yeah there
supposed to be some festivities dancing
some food but we were fooled from the
brunch but yeah it's worth checking out
up here in the Tarpon Springs area or in
the Tampa Bay area and January in
Florida it's super nice like today was
perfect weather was in the 70s such a
nice day to enjoy the outdoors
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