What's up guys.
Jon coming to you from the East Village of Manhattan
And if you've been a fan of my channel for a while you have my seen how much content
I have made about Mexico
I lived there for 5 months
My girlfriend Adriana is from Mexico
And because Day of the Dead is coming up
They're doing a celebration right here in New York City
At this church on St. Marks
Stay tuned til the end because we're going to show you the altar that we have for Adriana's grandfather
In our apartment
And speaking of Adriana
Well you know guys that we celebrate Day of the Dead in Mexico
And it's basically to make an altar.. to remember people that died
And we loved
We put some of their favorite food on it
And also you have the typical flowers
That you're going to see right now
And they are one of the most important things on the altar
We've just walked in and there's some kind of performance
Going on
And a lot of vendors just all around here
That was a little surreal for me
To see this in New York City
Because Adriana and I lived in the Yucatan in Merida for 2 months
And we actually had a shaman ritual
Done to us
One time
Which looked very similar to what they were doing
In there
That really flooded back a lot of awesome memories
From Mexico just seeing that performance
You remember the video in the Mayan town?
I thinks this ritual was just like that one
Exactly the same
And it's a really very spiritual thing
It was so cool to do that with everybody here
The only thing that stinks about New York City and Mexican Food
The prices
4 dollars a taco
What would this cost in Mexico
50 cents?
I think with that you would eat tons of tacos
In Mexico and much better
Alright on three, one.. it's to hot, it's to hot
Give us a minute
That's not bad at all for a New York taco
I need more salsa
She needs more salsa
Very difficult to find a good taco in New York
Extremely difficult
We've looked
I just wrote a message for my grandfather who died last year
And I put a candle on the altar
You were supposed to bring a picture of the person that you love
if you wanted , you could put it there
But right now I don't have 2 pictures of him
I just have one
You're going to see it later
In the altar we made at the apartment
So I just wrote a message
And I put it there
(music playing)
It was really nice for people that are from Mexico
And they want to keep their traditions
I loved it
This was one of the great things about living in New York City
Wherever you've traveled
Or wherever you're from
There's always a small part of it
That you can find
As long as you're willing to look for it
Alrigh lets go to the apartment
And we're back at the lovely apartment
In Greenwich Village
And we're about to show you the shrine that Adriana has made for her grandfather
I'm going to let her take it away
Okay guys welcome to the apartment
I'm going to show you the altar i made for my grandfather
We do this in my house in Mexico
We do a big one
But we don't have the space in the apartment
As you could see in the last video
So we made this
Baby altar here
It has a picture of my grandfather
A candle
Typical flowers.. the typical ones look a little bit different
In Mexico
They are bigger and circular.. i can't describe it
But we found something similar to that
It's actually the same kind of flower
But they look a little bit different
And we call it the cempasuchil flower
But in the U.S they know them as.. Marygold
And you have to make a crorss with them
Which is going to bring the soul of the person you love
You have fruits.. and you have to put something that the perosn really loved when he or she was alive
And in the case of my grandfather
He loved chocolate
Like so much
So i put one for him
And some fruit
And that's it
What do you do with the food after?
You're not supposed to eat it until I think november 3rd
And that is when the spirit came already
And took the scents of the food
Some people say that actually when you eat it
You don't taste anything
Because they already take everything.. all the flavor of the food.
Guys leave me a comment, tell me what you thought about the day of the dead festivities in New York City
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Thank you so much as always for watching
This was a lot of fun
Until next time