It has been anything but a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. Last time, I was talking before about the religious events leading up to Santa Semana, Holy Week. That activity heated up till it’s culmination on Good Friday, the Friday before Easter. Easter itself was quiet as usual, except there were still about a thousand foreigners in town who were here for the processions and whatnot. The few thousand Guatemalans, mostly from Guatemala City I guess, generally went home most nights.
I have many, many photos. Too many. I need too cull some. for now, I’ll look through and try to pick out some good ones.
The most photoworthy opportunities were of the processions. There was something nearly every night for the last two weeks. Some were huge events, some were not. Sometimes those mandalas, which the Guatemalans call carpets, were placed down, sometimes not. You’ll be able to see from the pictures what a zoo it was around here. I’ll start with the view down our street one evening. This was replayed several times. This first one is right outside our front door where the street had been turned into a parking lot. Very many people from Guatemala City and around here drove into town for this.
This is what it looked like from standing in the back of that red Dodge pickup Myung is leaning against.
Those pics were with zoom. We also watched it like we were on safari. As you can see, some of the participants weren’t totally devotional all the time.
These coming up are of different processions on different days.
By the way, that’s not smog, it’s incense.
There was a cute procession, la procesion de los ninos, the children’s procession. Some of the kids were too little to carry even the little floats.
As I’ve said, they frequently put flower and produce art on the street. They call them carpets. Here are a few more pictures.
So, here we are back to normal. We have a few ordinary pictures, like of Eunice, Annie’s friend who was a volunteer at the chocolate factory where Annie works. Eunice is from New Zealand.
Here’s a cute picture of Bisquit. He’s actually a pretty nice dog.
I was trying to think of what else is going on. My big deal is I applied for and am officially going to start receiving Social Security next month. That will double our income. Needless to say, that’ll be nice.
So, that’s going to be it for now. Until next time, be well, all of you.