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At 12:00 pm we go back to the graves to decorate them with
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Setup, 9:00 am we clean up the cemeteries by pulling out weeds in preparation of the big event.
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This is our whole time spent there experiencing what the authentic Spanish people feel on their holiday closest to our native Halloween.
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We make the bread of the dead, mole, and tamales.
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We go sometime around 6:00 pm and put these special flowers as offerings to the dead.
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At night on both the 1st and 2nd of November we go to the graves of our deceased and talk about them and essentially party on their graves/tombstone.
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During the day we make extravagant costumes and traditional, authentic foods for the party that's going to happen tonight in the cemetery. 3:00 pm
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We pile the altar high with candles, bright colored flowers like orange and purple, and other personal possessions. Around 7:00 pm. The first day is for children.
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To decorate our Altars of our deceased, we make paper confetti cuttings otherwise known as 'papel picado'. We do this on the day we honor them, November 2nd.
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At the end of each day's party we eat some of the most amazing foods. Some consisting of ones that we eat only once a year making it a bit more of a ritual, traditional, and cultural. For example, sugar skulls and mole. Very rare and good!
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We are very lucky since we will be staying in Mexico City for this whole event. I say we are lucky because we were able to take part in the Catrina parade and see/feel the experience. This parade is the only parade that happens only in Mexico CIty and nowhere else in the world.
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The second day after the Day of the Dead for the children is for the adults. We prepare altars again for them.
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Around midnight, we chose to go to honor the dead on the island by visiting them where as many opted out.
