Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Guatemala, celebrates for two days!!

Today, Guatemala began celebrating their Independence Day! They have enjoyed this liberty since September 15, 1821 from Spain.

Through the day there have been parades and celebrations. Runners went through the streets carring torches and people threw water balloons at them. It started raining during the late afternoon and it changed the number of torches that were burning but it did not deter people from still throwing water balloons........go figure!! :)

The market was staying busy until the heavy rain started. The lady steaming the corn gave up! You can see the water pouring off the canvas roof to the left of the corn.

The runners continued but without torches.

Lisa, Kemmel, Elaine and I had dinner this evening. It was goood to spend time together again and catch up on different stuff.

Tomorrow, there will be more parades and activities. To see more of the events, check out the Dunham's blog at http://www.kemmelandlisa.blogspot.com/ They have some great photos.

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