On the way to Church we had to make a few detours as the roads in San Isidro we're closed off due to a procession taking place that afternoon from the local Catholic Church. They we're starting to place flowers down in the road for the route of the procession. They're quite common here, but we struggled to find out what this one was for.
We walked down into town that afternoon before it started and looked around at all the designs. They seemed to use coloured wood shavings aswell, which we're occasionally being sprayed with water to stop the wind blowing them away and also to keep the flowers fresh. In one part there were 4 rows of half-cut oranges stretching the whole length of the road.
The procession was at 4:00 and started from the Church, where everyone followed on behind. Quite an amusing band played some morbid music followed by a few jigs.
It took around an hour and then after people started to clear away
the flowers which everyone had just walked on.
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Why can't we have processions like that? Who needs a reason? Into our 2nd week with 2 foster kids (they're great!) will have them for another 3 weeks. Look aback at the last blog comments and you'll see Emma from Oz has posted a comment!
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