Today we went uptown to view the Festival de las Calacas that they hold each year for the Dia de los Muertos celebrations. The people at the Casa de la Cultura put a lot of work into this festival along with many other people. The calacas (skeletons) and decorations are made by the people at the Casa de la Cultura and paintings from the classes held there are on display also. Many of the schools and also private people set up altars to honour people that were important to them in some way, either family members or famous people. The altars hold things that were important to the people that are being honoured, foods, photos, clothing, some of their possessions, etc.. The altars set up by the schools will be judged later on this evening I believe.
There is also music, food and dancing during the festival.
We wandered around, viewed the altars and art exhibits and then sat down at a street side cafe. We relaxed with a cold coke and people watched for awhile. We had a great time, very relaxing and enjoyable.
I took lots of pictures and decided to put them into a slideshow rather than posting them all separately.
After we wandered over to the water and walked along the malecon before heading home. There is something new on the malecon that I will show you in a day or two.
A great outing with my favorite person.
