Easter Celebrations

We got back from the States just in time for Good Friday celebrations. Unfortunately our luggage didn't arrive with us so we had to spend a day in Sumpango waiting for the next flight. We did get to see the local "alfombras" that people made in the streets. This is all made of colored sawdust and take hours to create and then they are walked over by the processions of the saints being carried by the men and women from town.

We got to our town the next day just in time for the torchlight rally on the basketball court at midnight. I was worried that the villagers were going to burn the place down or at least search out Frankenstein's  castle and go to town...but alas, they were reenacting the resurrection of Jesus.

We brought egg dye back with us and dyed eggs with the kids.

Then we had the easter egg hunt. It was a first for them and they loved it.

Here is Brian in action.

Cata loved the toys in the plastic eggs.

Brian was on a sugar high almost instantly.

Eggs for the kids and candy for the parents.

After the hunt Liz taught Cata how to blow bubbles with gum.

The kids loved trying to pop the bubbles.

The family.