Puente

October 30 - November 1, 2011
A puente is Spanish technically means bridge but it is also what everyone calls a long weekend.  This weekend was full of fiestas.  The 31st was Halloween, the 1st is All Saints Day and the 2nd is Day of the Dead.  For Halloween people do get dressed up but not everyone and only in scary costumes.  There were a lot of zombies.  Also the little kids go trick or treating but not a ton and nobody really has decorations.  At a local bar there was a big Halloween party so we all went to that.  All Saints Day is a full stop in Spain.  Nobody has work or school.  And Day of the Dead is when you go to the cemetery and bring flowers and food and celebrate the dead.  Depending on the weather and who you are celebrating it can be happy or said.  This year it was pouring rain so only the people who really wanted to commemorate their loved ones who had died went to the cemetery.  We didn't go because it wouldn't be a happy celebration, but more sad.  I love long weekends.