Photos from today's Corpus Cristi religious event. 4 miracles and 4 spectacular altars including live angels, jesus with dreadlocks and fatima as a nun, topped off by blaring tropical heat. 
Here in El Carrizal May = the fiesta de los flores. A month long celebration of spring including viejos (drunk men in masks) lots of pan dulce and fresco (punch). The fiesta concludes with the construction of palancas, tree trunks decorated with thousands of pounds of fruit and flowers, which are carried up to the church by many strong men. The following day, the fiesta concludes with the sharing of the palancas, lots of vendors and carnival games and a drama performed by the viejos where they attack the chuche, the viejo with the black muggers mask and tear off peices of his outfit to hand out to onlookers. Then there's a mass and the selection of a queen through a mini beauty pagent.
BEACH TRIP!!! In less than a week the Catholic youth group organized and realized an excursion to playa Majaual. They rock. But they rocked a lot less when a few of them got spectacularly throw up pass out drunk within an hour of arriving (... just the boys). Definite shame. 
Hulking members of the comitee de Medio Ambiente hauling 100 lbs sacks of tierra negra for the papaya nursery. Don't know how they do it.
