Celebrations

We went to the Sunday night festivities. I’m not sure if we missed part of the parade of women and girls in dressup clothes. There was a small procession, although only about a dozen women and the same of little girls. However, there was a band and some singers to entertain. Also, there was lots of confetti being showered around. Tonight, there was supposed to be a folk dancing group and entertainment until the annual reenactment at 11 p.m. of the call to revolution and independence by Padre Hildago in 1810 which initiated the war for independence. Hildago was captured and executed by the Spanish in 1811. The war, very bloody, lasted for over 10 years before Mexico finally achieved independence. However, it has been raining for much of the day and is pouring down tonight so I don't know how much will go ahead. Around noon, when the rain stopped for a while, Barb and Bijou walked down to the pier and park. Just as they got there, it started to rain. Although they sheltered for a while under a tree, they got home soaked. I wonder if this is one of the tail ends of Hurrican Ike; it stretched for hundreds of kilometers.

There are parades and celebrations all day tomorrow and evening as the 16th of September is the official independence day. However, some of the smaller towns, San Antonio and San Juan Cosala for example, are holding their celebrations next weekend in order to avoid conflict with Ajijic, Chapala and Jocotepec. They really celebrate down here.

Barb, after threatening for some time, finally went to a hairdresser and had her hair cut much shorter. She had been finding the hair too hot on her neck. Here is a photo of the new ‘do’.