So sorry that this post is so late, I evidently forgot to
publish the draft once I finished writing it and just found it when I went to
get another blog post ready, enjoy even though it is a little late!
Below are some pictures of our Semana Santa celebration with
the majority of the photos taken on Thursday of Holy Week. The first picture is some of the amazing food cooking that we had to eat including wonderful chicken, beef, pork, and even a cow head
in addition to the traditional sopa. I love here how we had three different fires going cooking good food with Diana in charge of keeping away the pesky chickens that kept trying to steel the meat off the grill. In the middle you can see the cow head cooking in foil.
Diana so proud of the cow head which had a surprisingly large amount of meat.
Alcides with his family eating a late lunch on Thursday.
A beautiful moth that I came home to find on Friday which just took my breath away with the double white cross. It definitely was a wonderful reminder of the sacrifice made for us so many years ago.
The Saturday before Easter my site mate Annie and I invited the neighborhood kids over for some traditional "American" Easter traditions which involved dying eggs, decorating rabbits and bunnies, in addition to coloring. A big thanks to all my church family who send down some wonderful Easter crafts!
The kids when we were all done with brightly colored Easter eggs and many other fun crafts, we had a fantastic turnout and a great way to get us in the Easter spirit and share a little bit of our traditions with them.
Alcides dad also celebrated his birthday the Saturday of Holy Week so we had another birthday celebration. It was so fun to see him surrounded by so many of his children and grandchildren playing himself happy birthday. It was also a very rainy day so we were all stuck inside trying to stay dry and his house isn't very large but luckily I was able to escape to the "kitchen" area so just sat around the fire helping to cook lunch.
A little bit later that day, and really any rainy day here lately (which we have had a lot of) Alcides with Rocio and Junior watching Finding Nemo in Spanish. Notice two of the kittens also joining in on the fun!
Just some of the beautiful eggs that I dyed!
While most were sitting around the table with family and friends eating wonderful Easter food I had made a wonderful chili and cornbread since it was a little bit chilly outside. That is one thing I am beginning to miss though is special food for the holidays with Easter missing roasted lamb, mom's deviled eggs, and so much more!
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