Monday, November 2, 2009

cleveland's 5th annual dia de los muertos festival

happy dia de los muertos, everyone! this weekend i went to cleveland's day of the dead festival and it was great! i took lots of pictures...enjoy!

outside shrines and "cemetery":

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indoor altars:

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(for some reason, they made martin luther king look so fat! at least they gave him cornbread and chicken)

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parade, led by a hearse!:

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the best part was that i finally got something i always wanted: a sugar skull! my brother bought it for me because i'm broke. so happy :)

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i also got to try a tamale for the first time and it was delicious! can't wait for next year :)

2 comments:

  1. OMG Erin, you've never had a tamale?! So so sad. Also I wanted to tell you, I have a blog at Wordpress now, TeamGonzales.wordpress.com.

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  2. AWESOME!!! So happy you shared these photos! It must have taken 20 years to upload them to Blogger ha ha. Glad you had a good time :)

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