Mexican Culture:
Photographed below is what I will call "The Mexican Breakfast of Champions" -- hot tea and "dead bread" which is only made the week of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). It's a sweet bread covered with sugar and pretty much the closest thing mexico gets to a donut. But the name of this bread just cracks me up. It's called "pan de muerto" which literally translates to "dead bread." awesome- sounds holy right?
Halloween or the equivalency of Halloween here in Mexico is a very spiritually dark holiday. Many people here believe in a God of the Dead known as the "santa muerto" and they believe that this god of the dead people has power over them. Many live in fear but not those who know Jesus as Savior. Nothing and no one is in power over God. Consequently... if you are a christian in mexico- you probably wont be found celebrating dia de los muertos. The realities of this holiday that I learned about in my high school spanish classes was a total surprise and shock to me the first year i lived here.
But here at B2B, we celebrate a "fall festival" with the staff kids and play games, have a hay ride (not a gentle one at that- thanks greg haha), the kids go trick or treating to all of the staff houses and apartments. It's a lot of fun but usually I think only the kids dress up in costumes- but all of us "single ladies" enjoy this event. Last year we were the ninja turtles and this year - photo below- shows us all as condiments. Ruby made all our costumes- she's got skills.
Floridians: Yes I dressed up like Sonny's Sweet BBQ Sauce- dang how i miss sonny's!
