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Decorating the grave
At 12:00 pm we go back to the graves to decorate them with
some special flowers. -
Cleaning the graves
Setup, 9:00 am we clean up the cemeteries by pulling out weeds in preparation of the big event. -
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Time spent there
This is our whole time spent there experiencing what the authentic Spanish people feel on their holiday closest to our native Halloween. -
Cooking
We make the bread of the dead, mole, and tamales. -
Making offerings to the altars/graves
We go sometime around 6:00 pm and put these special flowers as offerings to the dead. -
Remembering past loved ones
At night on both the 1st and 2nd of November we go to the graves of our deceased and talk about them and essentially party on their graves/tombstone. -
Making Costumes
During the day we make extravagant costumes and traditional, authentic foods for the party that's going to happen tonight in the cemetery. 3:00 pm -
Preparing the Altar
We pile the altar high with candles, bright colored flowers like orange and purple, and other personal possessions. Around 7:00 pm. The first day is for children. -
Paper Confetti Cuttings
To decorate our Altars of our deceased, we make paper confetti cuttings otherwise known as 'papel picado'. We do this on the day we honor them, November 2nd. -
Eating!!!
At the end of each day's party we eat some of the most amazing foods. Some consisting of ones that we eat only once a year making it a bit more of a ritual, traditional, and cultural. For example, sugar skulls and mole. Very rare and good! -
Catrina Parade
We are very lucky since we will be staying in Mexico City for this whole event. I say we are lucky because we were able to take part in the Catrina parade and see/feel the experience. This parade is the only parade that happens only in Mexico CIty and nowhere else in the world. -
Making Altars for Adults
The second day after the Day of the Dead for the children is for the adults. We prepare altars again for them. -
Cemeteries
Around midnight, we chose to go to honor the dead on the island by visiting them where as many opted out.
