ezpz Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 It's the culmination of the month-long celebration to honor Ajijic's very own Virgin of the Rosary. There will be a procession through the town around 4:30 or 5, which ends up at the church for a wonderful, thrilling cacaphony of drumming, bandas, cohetes, and church bells all at the same time. This is followed by a lovely sunset Mass outdoors, which is followed by an hour of genuine dancing and drumming in the plaza, followed by mariachis serenading the Virgin in the Capilla, the little chapel, which is then followed by a great banda for public dancing. Topping it all off will be pyrotechnic castillos and fireworks. The best fiesta all year, tonight only, don't miss it!!! Here is a foto slide show which contains short videos, but I think you have to go directly to the webpage to view them. THE PROCESSION: https://www.flickr.com/photos/micki_w/sets/72157637451602593/ THE FIESTA: https://www.flickr.com/photos/micki_w/sets/72157637500351925/ It's only fair to mention that most Mexicans do NOT support or enjoy Halloween. I've seen the sentiments on my FB page. Dia de los Muertos is a much richer and beautiful ancient tradition, coming up soon, a fiesta in the Ajijic Plaza Nov. 2 in the evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poe Bango2 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 I've lived here for 10 years, and I stay home every Oct 31st because dozens and dozens of Mexican kids stop by our house every year to "trick or treat". The parents accompany a lot of them, even show up carrying their costumed babies. They most definitely support and enjoy Halloween in my neighborhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbviajero Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 I've lived here for 10 years, and I stay home every Oct 31st because dozens and dozens of Mexican kids stop by our house every year to "trick or treat". The parents accompany a lot of them, even show up carrying their costumed babies. They most definitely support and enjoy Halloween in my neighborhood.It must be all the gringo influence at Lakeside,because in our neighborhood in Guadalajara there are very very few trick or treaters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bennie2 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 many children all over mex like halloween. their relatives in the US celebrate the holiday. maybe in guad the parents feel it is not safe to be out @ night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbviajero Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 maybe in guad the parents feel it is not safe to be out @ night.Nope, that's not the reason,there are lots of kids playing outside at night,Halloween just isn't celebrated here very much,neither is the 4th of July or Thanksgiving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maw7815 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 It may not be big in Guadalajara but It is really celebrated in Ajijic. Wal-Mart is selling a lot of costumes and we have many kids coming to our house yelling "Yo quiero Halloween". For the past 9 years we have lived here we always run out of candy and I keep buying more every year. I really like to see the parents holding their babies that also have a costume on. The kids love dressing up and getting candy. maw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 It's getting bigger all over Mexico as time goes by. How can it not, with the outside influences from TV and movies? It's not a gringo thing. In fact, it seems to me that there are lots of expats actively resisting the push for queremos Hallowe'en!... I don't believe the hunt for candy will have any affect on the life-long traditions of Dia de Los Muertes. This is an incredibly special time for families here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbviajero Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 I'm just relating what I've seen over the last ten years in the typical middle class neighborhood where we live,at the most you'll see a dozen or so trick or treaters,yes Soriana and Walmart are pushing their made in china costumes and plastic jack o lanterns,but so far it hasn't taken hold here in our area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparks Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 To the Bah Humbuggers just look at the big box stores and what they sell. We get 30-40 kids with painted faces and ¡Queremos Halloween! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yo1 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 I hate to see Hallowe'en take hold here and dilute the specialness of Dia de Los Muertes. This is Mexico, after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 It may take greater hold, but I doubt it will ever dilute the days and nights of Los Muertes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poe Bango2 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 I've lived in a lot of big cities in my life, and trick or treating wasn't big in those U.S. cities either -- but sure it was in the smaller towns I've lived in. Guadalajara is Big City livin'. It's a big deal to the Mexican kids here. I go to the Ajijic Panteon every year on Dia de los Muertos to commemorate my dad's life and others, and, trust me, there is no dilution of that Special Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bennie2 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 halloween is for children. now they have 2 holidays to celebrate. so many of them get into costume here. why not have fun? they proberly dont enjoy church. now they have their own special night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparks Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 MEXICO CITY — It was just a few days before the annual celebration of Day of the Dead, when Mexicans decorate altars to their departed ancestors, and the Sonora Market was buzzing. But in this always riotous scene, something was askew. Not all the stalls were hawking the traditional Day of the Dead regalia, things like giant papier-mâché skeletons, pink-and-purple tissue paper cutouts and little ceramic skulls. Some stalls offered up grinning plastic jack-o’-lanterns jammed into enormous plastic bags. Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” throbbed from more than one, and everywhere, it seemed, there were buckets filled with child-size witches’ brooms and rubber masks oozing blood. As Day of the Dead approaches on Sunday, it is hard to tell what Mexicans are celebrating. Is it reverence for the relatives who have passed on, their sepia photos to be placed on home altars sprinkled with yellow marigold petals and framed by their favorite food? Or is it Halloween, imported with a recorded witch’s cackle and puffy pumpkin costumes? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/world/americas/halloween-creeps-in-where-local-tradition-ruled-the-living-and-dead-.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rony Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 In this globalized world, it doesn't really matter. After all,..... 600 years ago, before the arrival of the Spaniards, there was no Christmas in Mexico, was there, ....and look how they celebrate it. It is all relative. Like last year (one friend ran out of about 500 kisses chocolates in one hour time), Chapala will be crowded with children everywhere..... celebrating Halloween. They are having a good time, and that is what matters. Rony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelley Ronnfeldt Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 Every year we have this debate. I thought that one of the enriching things that immigrants bring to their new countries is their holiday traditions. One of the things that we brought is Halloween. We appreciate and join in on Day of the Dead, they enjoy Halloween. It's no big deal. Children are children. When my neighborhood children come to my house on October 31 in costume with their sing song "Halloween!", they will get candy from me. Not Mexican candy either. Good old Snickers and Peanut Butter Cups. If we're gonna do it, let's do it right! On Day of the Dead, if I am offered a piece of Pan de Muerta or a drink of something, I will have it. How very lucky we all are to have the best of both worlds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austinx Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 While some complain about our culture taking over here (Halloween) it might be to remember how Mexican culture influences the U.S. Cinco de Mayo? Big celbration in Texas, but a completely Mexican thing. Even though its no big deal here, the point is the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slainte39 Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 I counted six roadside vendors on the Chapala to GDL side of the hiway a couple of weeks ago, loaded with jack-o-lanterns, pumpkins, and all of the Halloween regalia. Wrong side of the road for the NOB crowd only. I think Halloween has definitely made a beachhead in Mexico and will not be driven back into the sea After all the Irish forced it upon the Americans, and they finally accepted it. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Guy Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 I live in Lower La Floresta . It is now 7:30 PM and have had well over one hundred kids with Moms and Dads come to our door. As in the past years, I have now run out of treats. I buy more every year and still run out! The children and parents are always more than appreciative! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparks Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 Got lots of "Thank You's" at my gate tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k2tog Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 Today is Halloween at Lake Chapala. We were out on the carretera tonight and we saw at least 100+ kids NOT having Halloween tonight -- so much for your theory that Mexicans don't dress up and "Quermos Halloween". They were adorable too by the way! There's also a big party at the plaza in San Antonio for all those children dressed up and enjoying Halloween.....they must be all the young Canadian and American children who came in for tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poe Bango2 Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 I live in Lower La Floresta . It is now 7:30 PM and have had well over one hundred kids with Moms and Dads come to our door. As in the past years, I have now run out of treats. I buy more every year and still run out! The children and parents are always more than appreciative! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Me too, Rusty! It's 8:50 pm, and I just put a sign up that I'm all out of candy. There was easily over a hundred kids over here tonight. I enjoy being here for them every Halloween. They were having a ball -- and I did too! Happy Halloween everybody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmh Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 In San Cristobal the children are out in mass with masks and they are asking money not candies.They do not scream "queremos Halloween" but have a soft song asking for money from all the businesses. Very different and we cannot say down here that that the foreigners have brought in the custom. By the way a lot of young adults are walking around in various costumes as well. In the indigenous villages people all ( the Catholics as the Evanelists do not celebrate the Day of the Muertos)went o decorate the graves and were telling me it was the day of the Niños, which surprised me, tomorrow is the Santos day and the following day the Day of the muertos. It seems that down here the festival goes on for 3 days. Halloween is big in San Cristobal but does not exist in the villages. I would not worry about Halloween displacing the festival of the Day of the Dead which is a huge festival down here. The Evangelists are more likely to kill the Festival than Halloween. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrm30655 Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 There were plenty up in Villa Nova tonight. I enjoy it as much as the kids. Always make sure that the mothers get Snickers for bringing the kids by...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bennie2 Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 floresta always is busy on halloween. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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