Easter

I know Easter is long passed but I thought I would still do a post on the tradtitions here now that we have access to some of our photos. On Good Friday, local school and church youth groups get together and make large murals of easter scenes on the street. The street is a pedestrian mall so they dont have to worry about cars running over their art. The large murals are called alfombras (carpets) in Spanish. They are made of sand, saw dust and grated cheese dyed different colours. Here are some of the ones we liked best.

This one was dones by our nephew Wil and his youth group.

Jesus with the woman at the well.

Piles of coloured sand.

Can you believe this is all done with sand, saw dust and grated cheese!

So colourful! 

Levi enjoying the murals!

At night we returned to the pedestrian mall to see the Easter procession. Local catholic church members basically march through the street signing songs and carrying religious symbols: a case with a statue of a mouring virgin Mary and a casket with a staute of Christ. It was really interesting to witness this event. Very different than our typical Easter celebrations.

~ Sylvie