Here are some pics from this years Day of the Dead celebration. Jeremy, Kristy (and girls), Gordon and Adam joined Mom, me and Jeff and his 3 youngest. Kristy once again demonstrated her creative and artistic skills and made up Nyah and Sade in traditional skull makeup. This was worth cutting my Cambria Girls Getaway Weekend short and coming home for. Gordon will have to post the actual event pictures because I accidently left my camera at home (thought it was in my purse). It was great to have them here.
A few pictures from my collection - Gordon
These are some of the figures put up near some of the shrines. Most of them were about 8' tall. Lots of craftwork
This is a live woman sitting behind the drap, made up to look like a portrait.
This was a large puppet with someone inside controlling the hands. 
These young women had the most , as Syd said, exquisite costumes that we had to get a picture of them. We kept running into them as we walked around. They never said a word and everyone was taking their picture.
If I remember right the Dia de los Muertos celebration is a mixture of Aztec and Catholic traditions. There were a number of people in Aztec costumes and most were very involved and very interesting. Look closly at the man above - zoom in and you'll see he has whte contacts so all you can see are his pupils. Kind of creepy, but really a good addition to the overall effect
Jeremy and Adam paying their respects at the tomb/grave of Johnny Ramone of The Ramones.
The entrance to the Mausoleum. These figures are about 9 to 10' tall. These were really professionally done and the smaller ones inside were works of art - see below. I think Sydney said Rudolph Valentino is buried in this one.
A sample of the crowds and the booths. 
Before we went Sydney served us a great dinner of custom pizzas, killer salads, eclectic soft drinks and a fantastic roasted pepper soup. We all had a great time. Thanks so much little Sis!!
7 comments:
Too cute. I should have skipped town and come up for the fun. However Aaron HATES painted faces so it may have been better that we didn't.
I was just telling Chris of your adventures with the Day of the Dead yesterday because we watched a documentary on the history of Halloween. We'll make it to the festivities one year
That was so much fun even now we got home pretty late but stle it would of also been fun if you were there Jennifer.Love,Devon<3
I SO want to join you guys one year! It looks like a blast! Maybe Doug and I will carpool down with Aimee and Chris :)
I would LOVE it if you all could come and join us. Next year!
We loved it, thanks for including us :)
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