Los Dias de las Muertos-Halloween in Mexico

Los Dias de las Muertos aka The Days of the Dead. Halloween in Sayulita started tonight and there are several celebrations through the traditional day of the holiday on or about November 2nd. The holiday is intended to "honor" the Dead but it is certainly a kids time to be all things creepy.

The kids and I attended a party at a local school that had games, haunted houses, food etc as a fund raiser. The BIG difference from the states is that there are virtually no fairy princesses or super heroes to be seen. The holiday dress up theme is gore, blood, fright and creepiness. So much so that Trace didn't even want to go near some of groups of kids that were dressed to scare tonight. It actually scared our friends' two year old son, Jack, right out of the party. Trace went as Iron Man and Alex was a ballerina. Cute but they were certainly in the minority at this gathering. Good to be at such a large collection of kids in one place and we'll know to step up the costume efforts to include more gore if we are here for the holiday in the future.