This weekend is the Festival for our Colonia Church. Yesterday I walked over to the church and sat while parishioners came in to pray. The church was loaded with flowers. It was peaceful.
Today the inside of the church may look the same but outside is anything but peaceful. There are castillos being loaded, bands playing, and the plaza in front of the church is packed with families, food stands and people dressed in costumes for the Locos Parade which began right after the outside Mass. The Locos Parade has grown so much in the last 13 or 14 years that we have been going to it. Now it starts way out Ancha de San Antonio and winds it way through town. It looks to me like one-fourth of the town is in the parade and the other three-fourths of the town are lined up on the streets to watch and try to catch candy that is thrown to the crowd. In some ways you might say it is a family Mardi Gras.
If you want to see some more pictures of the Locos click
here.
