The end of October starts the time to celebrate the lives of family and friends who have past on, in Mexico the parties start, even now as we are in bed the mariachi bands are playing in the town and the fireworks are a constant reminder that it is party time, scaring the dog, and waking us up at unthinkable hours. But to the people of this small village it is an important and also reverent time. On Oct.31st. The Celebration of the Virgin of the Rosary ends with a parade carrying her statue from the main plaza church thru the streets of the town to a small chapel where she lives all the other months but October....there will be Indigenous dancers, an outdoor Mass, they parade thru Ajijic, past all the altars the local Mexicans have made with great care to celebrate The Day of the Dead, which will begin at dawn on Nov1 thru midnight Nov 2.
The cemeteries are a place to go and decorate and celebrate with food and music, they have an all around festival atmosphere which seems strange at first until some of the locals describe just what is really happening and how it relates to their past heritage and the traditions they are passing on to their own children. We are welcomed here by the local people as though we have been the best of friends, and have known one another forever. It really is a wonderful place to be!
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