So last night Tommy and I headed downtown to watch the Day of the Dead procession. We’ve never been but after having a lady in the fabric store tell me how amazing it was, I decided we’d better check it out. I knew taking the boys would have been disastrous, so we dropped them off with Grandpa (yes, he’s a total Saint) and headed down to watch it. What I learned is that this is not like a parade and you shouldn’t expect to go there to see amazing stuff…but you do. The idea of this procession is obviously to pay homage to the dead and the people that participate dress up, make floats, play music and make the couple mile walk to do just that. The whole thing starts at 6:30 and ends 2 hours later in a big field where they have a show and then light a huge urn on fire. It’s cool…people write letters to the ones they love who are dead and those are collected and put in a huge urn that is later set on fire. They believe the words you write turn to smoke and fly up to heaven…so I wrote a letter to my dad and gave it to them. Just for the record, I am very spiritual and don’t think I have to write a letter to communicate with him. He already knows how much I love and miss him because I tell him everyday. But anyway, it was awesome to see the costumes people came up with. I decided I wanted to dress up, so my girlfriends daughter came over and did my make up. Wow! She did such an amazing job! It was hilarious to be walking around with Tommy because we DID NOT match. He was wearing a white polo shirt with blue shorts. HAHAHA! Talk about opposites.

I’ve decided that in order for us to really experience this though, we would have to actually be in the procession. So, if we go again next year, we’re all going. We’ll take the boys too and dress them up. I think that would be great and I know they would love it. But anyway, here are the pictures that turned out. It was so hard to get decent ones because it was dark and people were moving. Tommy was having a meltdown trying to get the camera to work. =) We left before they burned the Urn because it was a total fiasco and there were SO many people…and we were starving. Haha! Enjoy!