The Banquet

Finally we did it again; our traditional Banquet for the Deads. Luis and los yucatecos spent all Saturday night cooking; in the meantime I put the altar with sugar skulls, flowers, candles, photos of dead people, magic powders, tamales, water, tequila, candies and chocolates, and that funny mexican paper for the special ocassion.



Then, on Sunday afternoon, we received our guests. Our living guests, I mean. They were starving of course, but before they eat, they had to watch the explanation we made with the pictures of the cooking procedure (so many hours cooking! they should know!)

At the end of the day we have had a great success with the food, including papaya as dessert and horchata as beverage. Of course, the Altar still remains for our dead guests, whom visit us these nights in order to take their part...