Looney Lougees: Mixquic!

In October we traveled to a little town called San Andres Mixquic is best known for its Day of the Dead celebrations, which consists of both ritual and cultural events lasting from October 31 to November 2nd. These events draw thousands of Mexicans and international visitors each year.

When we got there early in the morning the town was pretty empty, but by the time we left there were a ton of people. The only unfortunate thing that happened on this trip was that I lost my brand new cell phone. :( We looked all over the place, but with all the crowds it was impossible to find it anywhere. Here are a few pictures of the town and a couple of the events that we saw go on.

Alters for the dead were placed all over the town

Here is one of many murals we saw in the town

Church

Courtyard of the church

Cemetery where families would lay flowers on the graves of their loved ones. Families would then gather round the grave and talk about memories of the decreased. It really is kind of beautiful. There were so many flowers! Everything was covered with them!

More alters

Musical & Dance performances

Closer to home we celebrated the Day of the Dead with getting our faces painted and looking at everyone's costumes and face-painting. There was suppose to be a march downtown, but we never figured out where we were suppose to go for that so we just stayed where all the festivities were going on.

While we were waiting in line to get our faces painted Aurora was getting fussy, but there was no where to sit to feed her so I just laid my bag down on the ground to and sat down to do it. I guess I must of looked like a beggar, because a guy wanted to give me 10 pesos. I told him I didn't want it and he moved on. When I mentioned it to Gary he even said I looked like one..lol

We weren't going to get Aurora's face done, but I'm so glad we did!

She looked so cute! (Also, this lady was in love with Aurora! Her makeup was extensive. I can't imagine how long it took her to take it off...lol

We were briefly interviewed by Mariana Ochoa, a pop singer from OV7 (very popular in the late 90s). Apparently she does a vlog on YouTube. I think they mostly just wanted to get a shot of Aurora honestly,..heh. It was fun though. Gary did most of the talking.