So Christmas in Guatemala is pretty amazing, I think that even though they don´t have snow, or much of Santa, I would say they outdo us in celebration. The custom here is called MediaNoche, which means midnight, and everyone cooks this big dinner and waits up till midnight when fireworks from every house explode simultaneously. It´s cool enough to see big fireworks from the end of a town pier or roof of the Muni, but to see them from every street corner and roof of every house blew my mind. It´s got to be yet again the most dangerous thing of life, but never the less the 10 year olds and myself put things ablaze into the air 5 feet from telephone poles and other electric or flamable things in the street.
I look forward to repeating this for New Years as well.
As far as the tradition goes, I went to a Catholic Church for the night service with Doña Dora and at midnight they light incense and put the baby Jesus in their nativity scenes.
Oh! and the best part was the next day when Diego came by to see this parade of people dressed in different animal costumes do a line dance in the street. It was awesome, there were two GIANT panda costumes twice as big as the people inside, and kids in little dog costumes too, costumes of Gizmo, Sonic the Hedgehog, Skunks, a Furby, Chipmunks, Reindeer, and more. Quite an eclectic mix, and they all had these huge costume heads on. My favorite was the Lion from Robinhood (the King from the cartoon version) It was either a kid inside or a very small person, who danced like there was no end yet obviously could not see out of the extremely large costume head they had on and had to look around confused after bumping into the guy infront and behind in the line formation, fix his head back, and continue dancing like nothing happened. I can´t explain it, I wish I had video, and I definately had a better time watching this than Diego did.
Happy New Year to everyone, Peace,
Robin
I look forward to repeating this for New Years as well.
As far as the tradition goes, I went to a Catholic Church for the night service with Doña Dora and at midnight they light incense and put the baby Jesus in their nativity scenes.
Oh! and the best part was the next day when Diego came by to see this parade of people dressed in different animal costumes do a line dance in the street. It was awesome, there were two GIANT panda costumes twice as big as the people inside, and kids in little dog costumes too, costumes of Gizmo, Sonic the Hedgehog, Skunks, a Furby, Chipmunks, Reindeer, and more. Quite an eclectic mix, and they all had these huge costume heads on. My favorite was the Lion from Robinhood (the King from the cartoon version) It was either a kid inside or a very small person, who danced like there was no end yet obviously could not see out of the extremely large costume head they had on and had to look around confused after bumping into the guy infront and behind in the line formation, fix his head back, and continue dancing like nothing happened. I can´t explain it, I wish I had video, and I definately had a better time watching this than Diego did.
Happy New Year to everyone, Peace,
Robin
3 comments:
You won't have enough brain cells to store all the incredible experiences you are having. We don't do so much at Christmas, but we ended up short notice at CB.
We got to see your Mom's awesome decorations the trip before, with football! Chuck {son} came down from Gaithersburg and that was fun; we drank champagne & Mark fried chicken and we all worked on the shed-osmosing-into-a-party-cabin/crab shack. It's very unique (it has heat.) I guess you can't get more American than that either. Also toted another load of river rocks up out of our NC yard that were originally barged on our little 16.5ft boat out of Lake Norman. Hope your New Year is as EXPLOSIVELY fun as Christmas, but stay safe!
Oh, I also got to go to an awesome Zumba class at the beautiful brand new YMCA in King George. My Y in NC is old and much smaller, but we have lots of Hispanic members and you can learn a lot just watching those who obviously were raised on the merengue, cumbia, salsa, mambo ... there's one song that sounds like a polka that's interesting - must be the German influence.
love the pic, hon.. you look amazing! (as always)
much love.
--elizabeth
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