Visit To The Cemetery - San Miguel de Allende

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Saturday we were up early and off to the panteon (cemetery) for Día de los Muertos.  A rush of excitement, color, and aromas.  We walked down to San Antonio and behind the Canadian bakery lies the cemetery.  Along the back street were vendors selling fresh-cut flowers, tacos, sopes, tortas, vases, just to name a few things.

The man visiting this tomb was celebrating the death of his parents and his brother.  He encouraged us to visit, look around and take pictures.  You can see that he put a lot of detail into decorating as well as providing the things that they enjoyed in life.  He even had incense burning.

I know everyone here is familiar with the Mexican custom of Day of the Dead.  So families go to the cemetery to visit their loved ones, clean the stone or monument, adorn it with flowers, fresh baked goods, the deceased favorite drinks and food.  There is a bit of everything to be seen there.  

The event is very organized compared to other places.  The cemetery has an entrance that is separated by a temporary divider to keep people from running into each other.  Youngsters are waiting at the entrance with buckets, water, brushes and some even with paint offering to help prepare the grave for a few pesos.  

Tourists love this day and the cemetery is filled with people taking pictures, reading the stones looking for some expats that have died in SMA and are buried there.  

Hmm,  a little fuzzy or was that just the result of the great martini that Barbara always prepares!

After, we took the obligatory nap later headed over to friend Barbara´s house to visit, have happy hour and then head out for dinner.  We drove out on the highway towards Atotonilco to an Italian restaurant behind La Burger. Ristorante Italiano Yoalli.  It has been very good to us but this time the food was above average but not my five-star fantastic.  

Outside Ristorante Italiano Yoalli.

Apart from the food, wine and conversation were great as always.  Back at Barbara's, we went up to the terrace to build a fire in the chimney but it wasn't wanting to light and it was getting cold so we called it a night.

Sunday (yesterday), we went to the market up on the hill and were looking for a camera connector and some other odds and ends.  More on that in the next post.