Adventures of Desmundo

Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a Mexican holiday to celebrate the dead. It goes on for 5 days (Oct 29 - Nov 2). In Puerto Vallarta, on November 2 there is a parade. My dad and I went to it. There were hundreds of people in the parade. All of them dressed up with face paint, dresses, fancy shirts, and skeleton costumes.  There were floats, people on motorcycles, all sorts of bands, people on horses, 15 foot tall puppets controlled by one person, and a group of four people that climb up to the top of a really tall pole and then tie themselves to ropes and then swing around the pole upside down while playing music. Some people sell “tacos de Cabeza.” Cabeza is the spanish word for head. It is used to describe the meat from a roasted head of a beef animal, served as taco fillings. Here are some of the photos that my dad took the of things that we saw.

Our house is now in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Puerto Vallarta is a big city on the Pacific coast. We live in an apartment on top of a cafe. It has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a living room that is right next to the kitchen. We have six restaurants within a block and the beach is about a ten-minute walk from us. Our house also has a terrace circling half of our house and a terrace on the roof. The temperature is much warmer than what we were used to in Lake Atitlan and Antigua. The temperature has been around 90 degrees since we have been here (two days). Puerto Vallarta has a population of 307,107 people and 5,000,000 (five million) tourists per year. Puerto Vallarta is located in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. My first impressions of the city were hot, noisy, large, lots of cars, and everything you needed, really close to where you live.