Feliz Dia de Los Muertos, Tangerineys! Alright, Tangerine Girl, tell them
what's happening. We are currently in Aguascalientes to celebrate our very
very first Día de Los Muertos in Mexico. I am so stoked.
Aguascalientes, why here? Well, we heard there's a pretty big festival called
Festival de Calaveras, which is a festival of skulls. They have some
parades here. There's so many events, we don't, we have no idea what to do. And
they're all over the city too, so hopefully we get the best of it. I get to
show you along the way.
Woo! Who's excited? I'm excited!
These grandstands are being set up, the sound equipment it's being prepared,
The big parade tonight is ending right here in Centro!
So I think they have stuff like this set up all over the city. But we're just
starting to explore and we're gonna take you along with us.
Our meanderings have brought us to Jardín de San Marcos which has something
special for us that we like to find in every single video. But before we get
there, I know you guys are going to ask us "Where the heck is Laska? She hasn't
been in so many videos lately!" Well, we brought her on this trip but it got off
to a rough start and we arrived to our first Airbnb only to find out that this
private place that we rented seemed to have someone living there, and there were
security cameras inside, it was really weird, super dirty. So we had to take her
to a pet hotel. It was really tragic, she was whining and it made me so sad. But,
we're not gonna let that ruin this trip. And where are we now? El Centro del
Centro. The center of the center of town. This one's super cool, it has a pond
underneath - we've never seen that before! Yeah and did you see that, the fountain wasn't on,
but it has fountains in the pond. What?!? So in this jardín de San Marcos you can
see behind me it's just this gorgeous gorgeous park! So much nature, squirrels. Squirrel!
We just took an Uber from Jardín de San Marcos to Isla de San Marcos. This is beautiful
here! This is amazing! This is super gorgeous! The Uber ride was about eight minutes and it was twenty-one pesos.
There's a bit of promotion going on right now, maybe because they're
sponsoring some of the events around town, so it would have been about twenty
eight pesos otherwise.
I love this city and event already! There's, especially this place Isla
de San Marcos. There's this awesome Lake here with a zip line over it
that I can't wait to do! Oh yeah! So obviously, we're just scoping the place
out right now because there's not much going on, but we can see that there's all
this carnival rides and fun attractions behind us.
There's tons of booths with food, music, all that fun stuff. And something else
great that we noticed is that everything is really really affordable at this
place, so five pesos for palomitas (popcorn). We have a liter of agua fresca
for 20 pesos. So definitely not the fair prices that we would expect like in the US.
I love all the detail that goes into these! Alebrijes! Just so ornate.
This is the biggest papel picado I've ever seen!
It's so huge!
This is super cool here - all the vendors, so many artesanias from all over
Mexico! I really appreciate how all the vendors are not pushy in the slightest,
they're just patiently there to help you out if you want it. Everyone in the city
seems so friendly, so helpful, so nice! Yeah!
I'm so so so so glad that our first experience with the
Airbnb did not represent the rest of our trip so far. It's also nice to walk
around here with not so many people and not loud music or anything so we just get
to enjoy looking around and taking it all in.
Where I'm sure later it's going to be packed! I did notice that about this city that
everyone's super nice like Maddie was just saying. Also, there's a bit of an
accent here. We have a little bit of trouble understanding it but I feel like
we're gonna pick up this one pretty quickly. In the spirit of Dia de Los Muertos,
today you can call me Maddie-gold. We're at this really cool
restaurant called provincia. Nice vibe, really cool decorations and stuff, and
it's past 6:00 p.m. and all they serve is breakfast. This is my kind of
place! [Laughter] Right along this street in Aguascalientes,
there's tons of chairs set up along the side of the road in
front of people's houses and stuff. Lucky those people! We're gonna try to scope
out a place where we can be like front row to the parade that's happening.
So if you forgot to eat dinner before the parade, you're not gonna go hungry.
There are vendors selling everything out here except a blanket. And we forgot wear pants.
[Laughter]
Yeah, like everything 5 or 10 pesos. I've never seen this before!
Awww!
So is this a military parade or a Day of The Dead parade?
I'm not going to lie, this parade started off pretty slow!
We were considering leaving but I'm glad we didn't.
Are you having fun? Yeah, I mean it's got a lot better.
The woman is very fast!
If I were a little kid I would be royally freaked out by these things!
[Laughter] I'm surprised you aren't.
Hah! Wow!
They all have Maddie-golds on their head.
I think all these cards that are coming by are supposed to be made to look like Lóteria.
And announce what's coming up next but I'm not actually sure.
If it is though, thank you Jim and May from Spanish and Go for teaching us that delightful game!
So this one said "la fiesta" and after there was like 3 or 4 people with brooms,
Sweeping up. Like cleaning up after the party, or? I don't know. [Laughter]
They're in el centro del centro, we need to go kick them out.
The way this started off, I'm like "this is the worst parade I've ever seen in my life."
[Laughter] Those are fighting words Jordan. [Laughter]
But, thankfully it got way way better! I was actually kind of thinking there's
so many people here, there's no way this could be like a high school type parade.
That's what I was thinking to. Why would so many people come out to this if it's so bad?
Well, and then I started thinking like
we don't know anything about Aguascalientes, maybe this, even at high school
parade would be like a big event that people would come out to. But it is not, it was
great! And what I'm excited about in this, is
that this is one of many events in Aguascalientes. What should we do next?
So of the dozens of Dia de los Muertos events here in Aguascalientes coming up,
we don't really know what we're going to do next.
There's parades, there's stuff happening at various Panteons. What are those called
in English? Cemetaries. [Laughter]
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